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September 8, 2015

Schneider Electric has announced the appointment of Pedro Domínguez as Director of Information, Process & Organization (IPO) for the Iberian Peninsula. He will be a member of the Schneider Electric Management Committee for the Iberian Region and will report to Martine Bailly, Vice President for Europe.

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September 4, 2015

Cree, Inc. has announced that Wolfspeed is the new name for Cree's new power and RF division. The company announced in May that it would spin off the business into an independent company.

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September 2, 2015

MATELEC Latinoamérica, the International Exhibition of Solutions for the Electrical and Electronic Industry, is moving forward with preparations for its first edition, which, organized by IFEMA and its Chilean counterpart, FISA, will be held from October 7 to 9 at the Espacio Riesco Convention Center in Santiago, Chile.

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August 31, 2015

Through a groundbreaking video filmed by drone, Intel Capital today announced an investment of over $60 million in Yuneec, a global electronic aviation company. This is one of the largest investments made in the drone industry to date.

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August 25, 2015

Saft has received additional orders for Li-ion battery systems worth more than 20 million euros from Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL), India's only 4G/LTE operator.

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August 14, 2015

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. has joined the "R-Car Consortium," a partner program championed by Renesas Electronics Corporation. By participating in the R-Car Consortium, Maxim further demonstrates its commitment to the automotive market.

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August 14, 2015

Last July, a new European association focused on WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) in the lighting sector was launched. EucoLight aims to give a voice to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes specializing in the collection and recycling of lamps and lighting fixtures.

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August 5, 2015

Digi International® and Digi-Key Electronics have announced the availability of a Digi XBee®/Arduino compatible coding platform. Available exclusively through Digi-Key for $99, the platform provides a comprehensive resource for developers to learn about the XBee API

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August 5, 2015

Mouser Electronics, Inc. is pleased to announce a global distribution agreement with Omron Electronic Components.

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August 5, 2015

Nearly four years after Toshiba Corp.'s $2.3 billion acquisition of Swiss metering technology company Landis + Gyr, another Fortune 500 company has acquired a metering technology giant. Earlier this week, Honeywell International bought Elster Group from its parent company Melrose Industries for $5.1 billion.

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August 5, 2015

ERNI Electronics is further expanding its presence in the important and growing Japanese market. With the aim of optimizing support in this country, the company opened a new sales office earlier this year: ERNI Electronics KK, located in Tokyo.

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August 5, 2015

Saft is supplying backup batteries to Tecnibat for the Haramain high-speed rail substations. Tecnibat is Spain's largest supplier of power electronics equipment and backup systems.

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August 5, 2015

Ingeteam has opened two new subsidiaries in Romania and the Philippines, expanding the company's global presence to 17 countries across five continents. In Romania, the company focuses its activity on the wind energy sector, specifically on the maintenance of wind farms, given the country's significant potential for development in the renewable energy market.

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July 23, 2015

ROHM Co., Ltd. has completed the acquisition of Powervation Ltd., a privately held digital power IC company that develops system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for digital power management, for approximately $70 million.

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July 21, 2015

Mouser Electronics, Inc. is pleased to announce a worldwide distribution agreement with Vicor® Corporation. Mouser will offer Vicor's full line of high-performance power conversion and regulation modules.

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July 20, 2015

Hyundai and Kia's American technology center, Mojo Mobility, Inc., has been awarded a grant from the Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies program to research and develop a wireless charging system.

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July 17, 2015

As part of its InovGrid project, EDP is accelerating the deployment of its electricity metering infrastructure in Portugal. EDP is confident that the InovGrid project will bring multiple benefits to its end customers, increasing their control over energy expenditure, improving their costs, providing greater tariff flexibility, and delivering new value-added services.

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July 17, 2015

Global electronics component distributor Digi-Key Electronics has announced its partnership with ARM's university program to distribute the innovative "Lab-in-a-Box" (LiB) to higher education institutions around the world.

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July 17, 2015

As part of its green strategy, the Hungarian municipality of Balatonfüred replaced its old lighting system with GE Lighting's LED street lighting solution
, resulting in increased energy efficiency and low maintenance.

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July 15, 2015

Saft has signed a contract worth around one million euros with Alstom to supply nickel SRM emergency batteries for London Underground's Northern line trains.

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July 8, 2015

Silica, an Avnet, Inc. company, has signed a distribution agreement with Nordic Semiconductor ASA. The agreement authorizes Silica to sell and support Nordic Semiconductor's full range of ULP wireless solutions throughout Europe.

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July 1, 2015

Ficosa Internacional SA and Panasonic Corporation announced their capital and business alliance agreement on September 30. This follows the fulfillment of several conditions, including approval from the relevant antitrust authorities

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June 29, 2015

Siemens has established a new plant for the development, production, and testing of electric drive systems for hybrid and electric vehicles. Specifically, the company has opened a 1,200-square-meter facility for manufacturing drive system converters for electric vehicles.

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June 25, 2015

Because the Renesas Synergy™ platform, introduced by Renesas Electronics, is a complete embedded development platform designed to simplify the creation of innovative products in the embedded space, particularly for the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market.