All the stories tagged with plant
Fire breaks out in an Intel plant, Arizona
06/08/2011, Following the explosion that happened in Foxconn China a few weeks ago, another accident has broken out in a manufacturing plant – this time all the way on the other side of the world in an Intel plant in Arizona. [...]
Foxconn iPad 2 plant reopens after accident
06/02/2011, It looks like all is well at the iPad 2 plant in Foxconn again. After the terrible accident that happened a few weeks ago that left 3 dead and 15 injured, the facility has been reopened for production. While the [...]
Google invests $5 million in a German solar plant
04/07/2011, Google, has been recently reported to have forked out $5 million in an 18.7MW solar power plant near Berlin, Germany. Google won’t be running the show all by themselves though – the plant will be operated together with another [...]
Plant whisperer reminds you to water the greens
02/13/2011, Are your plants always turning a strange shade of brown because you tend to forget to water them? Perhaps you’d like technology to come to your rescue. Someone out there probably decided that it was too tiresome to remember when [...]
Plant sniffs out bombs to combat terrorism
01/27/2011, You would be surprised to hear what the latest tool employed to combat terrorism – a plant. Yup, that is right, the latest airport security tool is not a scanner that shoots images of you stark naked, but actually genetically [...]
Sony buys back semiconductor plant from Toshiba
12/22/2010, Word is going around that Sony is planning on buying back a Nagasaki semiconductor plant back from Toshiba. Sony originally sold the facility to Toshiba back in 2008 and the latest transaction is said to be 50 billion Yen ($599 [...]