A rolling green roof atop an elegant all-glass facade, with both a white-table-cloth restaurant and a spot for a laid-back picnic on the grass 70 feet above the harbor, with a view of Manhattan through the center of a tremendous observation wheel.
That's the latest vision for the New York Wheel and it's terminal building, shown in updated renderings provided by Wheel CEO Rich Marin. "This design is not final-final but it's at least one final," Marin joked.
The design includes many modifications made as a result of consulting with different city agencies in pursuit of Uniformed Land Use Review Process certification, and of repeated meetings with the city's Design Commission.
"We've made a lot of changes to the design to meet their suggestions and hopefully we're down to the sort of the short strokes," Marin said.
While plenty of people have a pretty good idea of what the giant observation wheel will look like, the new renderings show a sleek glass terminal building that will allow people have a view from the harbor both inside and out, and the building is designed to flow as such.
"The stairway down is both indoors and outdoors -- it's on both sides," Marin said. "It's intended to be that way, it's intended to mimic the indoor outdoor success." On the outside, the steps run along a sloping, terraced hillside.
"People can actually walk over to the side and enjoy a seat on the beach, and it's almost sort of stadium-like seating," Marin said. "That becomes a very nice, contemplative place to sit and ponder the Memorial and the waterfront and our plaza."
Atop the terminal building will be the much-touted green roof, which will be fully accessible to the public as a lawn for walking, picnicking and watching over the harbor. Marin described the flow of the green roof as "ribbons," taking the same curve and shape as the wheel that will tower in front of it.
The front of the terminal building has a tremendous, sloping glass wall -- with some glass pleats that makes Marin liken the structure to a skirt. Those structural glass columns will be there instead of steel, keeping the space open.
"The reason you see that sloping glass wall in the front is because we want people, as they're coming down the stairs, as they're standing in the main area of the terminal, to be able to look up and see the wheel and look out and see the harbor all at once," Marin said.
If guests enter at the lower level, from Bank Street, they'll come into the "Great Wheel Hall," where there will be ticketing, coat rooms, and the wheel's large sustainability exhibition there.
The restaurant will include a terrace out onto the green roof -- which will also be accessible to anyone who would like to check out the view by walking up the sloping roof from Richmond Terrace. Those walking on the green roof can even pop in to the terrace for a drink.
Almost all of the building's green roof -- which extends toward Jersey Street, atop a parking lot hidden beneath it -- will be accessible to the public. The only off-limits area is where solar and wind turbines will be located. Glass railings will block off the steep edge above the harbor, Marin said.
2013年3月31日 星期日
2012年11月27日 星期二
GET Group Opens Washington, D.C. Office
Global Enterprise Technologies Corp., a provider of cutting-edge passport and ID systems globally, today announced the opening of its new office in Washington, D.C. The new location will support GET Group's growing passport and ID business with the federal government, as well as provide technical support and sales contact convenience for government agencies and their contractors. GET Group is the worldwide exclusive distributor of Toppan Printing Co. Ltd.'s cutting-edge security passport printing technology.
For nearly two decades, the United States' Department of State Passport Services has utilized GET/Toppan passport printing solutions. This experience complements GET Group's record of delivering highly-secure government IDs and passports worldwide. To more easily support GET Group's rapidly expanding business, the new Washington, D.C. office will provide opportunities for local printing demonstrations and enable on-demand delivery and maintenance for federal agencies with mission-critical identification and access control requirements that must be implemented with extremely quick turnaround times.
"For years, governments around the world have trusted GET Group to deliver the highest-quality, most secure identification printing technology available," said Alex Kambanis, president and CEO of Global Enterprise Technologies Corp. "Our new office in Washington, D.C. will make it easier to deliver the same level of service and support at an increased volume as demand for highly secure card printing solutions for government agency applications increases."
GET Group's printing technology is ideal for highly secure government environments, with security features that include a tamper-evident seal to protect against image or data alteration, as well as the ability to incorporate holograms, barcodes, micro-text, and other features to enhance security. The company's solutions are also trusted for mission-critical identification challenges in other high-security commercial environments, including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, transportation, travel and leisure, higher education and campus security, and more.
Attendees of the 11th Annual Smart Card Alliance Government Conference in Washington, D.C. can learn more about the new office and also view GET Group's CP500 card printer, the eP600 passport printer, and the CLM-20 laser engraver by visiting booth 506.
Applied Laser Engineering delivered the 4.5m laser system to the company’s Dukinfield, Cheshire plant earlier in the month.
The anilox roller manufacturer brought in the 450,000 system to boost productivity in response to increased demand. Cheshire Anilox Technology mainly produces anilox rollers for use in flexographic presses but demand from Heidelberg and KBA litho machines has increased orders recently.
Cheshire Anilox Technology technical sales director Sonia Arcos said: "Litho presses used to use anilox rollers only for priming and varnishing but the release of the Anicolour, which uses eight anilox rollers, and the KBA 74 has meant that we have had higher demand from the offset market."
She expects that the manufacturers have opted for anilox rollers in the mentioned machines as it is easier to control the amount of ink being used and hence proves to be a cost effective method of printing.
Arcos predicted that the new system will boost capacity by 30% and enable the company to create "limitless" bespoke cell designs on the ceramic rollers.
For nearly two decades, the United States' Department of State Passport Services has utilized GET/Toppan passport printing solutions. This experience complements GET Group's record of delivering highly-secure government IDs and passports worldwide. To more easily support GET Group's rapidly expanding business, the new Washington, D.C. office will provide opportunities for local printing demonstrations and enable on-demand delivery and maintenance for federal agencies with mission-critical identification and access control requirements that must be implemented with extremely quick turnaround times.
"For years, governments around the world have trusted GET Group to deliver the highest-quality, most secure identification printing technology available," said Alex Kambanis, president and CEO of Global Enterprise Technologies Corp. "Our new office in Washington, D.C. will make it easier to deliver the same level of service and support at an increased volume as demand for highly secure card printing solutions for government agency applications increases."
GET Group's printing technology is ideal for highly secure government environments, with security features that include a tamper-evident seal to protect against image or data alteration, as well as the ability to incorporate holograms, barcodes, micro-text, and other features to enhance security. The company's solutions are also trusted for mission-critical identification challenges in other high-security commercial environments, including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, transportation, travel and leisure, higher education and campus security, and more.
Attendees of the 11th Annual Smart Card Alliance Government Conference in Washington, D.C. can learn more about the new office and also view GET Group's CP500 card printer, the eP600 passport printer, and the CLM-20 laser engraver by visiting booth 506.
Applied Laser Engineering delivered the 4.5m laser system to the company’s Dukinfield, Cheshire plant earlier in the month.
The anilox roller manufacturer brought in the 450,000 system to boost productivity in response to increased demand. Cheshire Anilox Technology mainly produces anilox rollers for use in flexographic presses but demand from Heidelberg and KBA litho machines has increased orders recently.
Cheshire Anilox Technology technical sales director Sonia Arcos said: "Litho presses used to use anilox rollers only for priming and varnishing but the release of the Anicolour, which uses eight anilox rollers, and the KBA 74 has meant that we have had higher demand from the offset market."
She expects that the manufacturers have opted for anilox rollers in the mentioned machines as it is easier to control the amount of ink being used and hence proves to be a cost effective method of printing.
Arcos predicted that the new system will boost capacity by 30% and enable the company to create "limitless" bespoke cell designs on the ceramic rollers.
2012年11月1日 星期四
IPG set to ship 100 kW laser
Shares in IPG Photonics lost more than 10% of their value after the company issued its third-quarter financial results for 2012 – despite the market-leading fiber laser company beating its sales guidance for the period.
IPG posted sales of $156.4 million for the third quarter, above the guidance range of between $145 million and $155 million. That represented a 21% year-on-year increase as the company saw growth in new aerospace applications and sustained demand for high-power sources from automotive manufacturers and heavy industry.
High-power lasers accounted for $67.1 million of the quarterly revenues, while sales of pulsed lasers – up more than 50% from the same period last year – were responsible for $50.4 million, thanks in part to marking applications in consumer electronics production, where IPG believes it has won market share.
IPG’s CEO Valentin Gapontsev added that the company had gained market share with a key automotive customer in France that had previously been using a rival’s technology for welding applications.
While the wider European economy remains weak, the location of much of the continent’s automotive manufacturing base in Germany remains a strong sector for now, and IPG appears to be benefiting. For example, optics.org understands that BMW is investing heavily in fiber lasers to be used at its Mini production facility in the UK.
Japan could provide the next wave of demand. In an investor conference call, Gapontsev said that while all the major Japanese auto makers were already using IPG’s lasers to some degree, it was typically in limited quantities. With one of Japan’s leading car producers set to decide on a major new investment soon, IPG could be set for strong future business here.
It isn’t just the traditional automotive production centers that IPG is penetrating. CFO Tim Mammen added that there was “a great degree of optimism” surrounding the opportunity to sell more lasers to Chinese auto makers in 2013, while the company has also received orders for some large systems to update a large automotive facility in Russia.
The company also has an agreement with the giant Russian energy producer Gazprom, and Gapontsev described another novel application in which a customer is using an IPG laser to drill “several kilometres into the earth” to access oil and gas wells more efficiently.
While IPG remains on a strong growth track, investors appeared disappointed with news that the company’s book-to-bill ratio in the third quarter slipped below unity, prompting guidance for the final quarter of the year that suggests a slight drop-off in revenues from the record-breaking Q3.
“We will face challenges in the fourth quarter, including historical seasonality in some markets and macro-economic pressures in a few key geographies,” said Gapontsev, with seasonal weakness in China becoming an increasing influence on IPG’s business as sales to the country ($34 million in the latest quarter) grow quickly.
At the lower-power end, analyst Mark Douglass from Longbow Research believes that Nufern has expanded laser production in response to some success in marking and engraving applications, particularly in China, and that SPI is benefiting as a second-source supplier in some instances.
For high-power fiber lasers, where IPG rules the roost, JDSU is believed to be gaining some traction via its partnership with the Japanese tool company Amada. But Douglass sees little threat to IPG, and speculates that Mitsubishi may release IPG-equipped systems shortly.
Earlier this month, Mitsubishi issued a release saying that it would unveil a fiber laser system at the Fabtech trade show being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 12-14 November. The release quoted Bill Isaac, the VP of Mitsubishi Laser, saying: “This isn’t the first fiber laser, but we took the time in research and development to make sure that when we entered the market, we had it right.”
IPG posted sales of $156.4 million for the third quarter, above the guidance range of between $145 million and $155 million. That represented a 21% year-on-year increase as the company saw growth in new aerospace applications and sustained demand for high-power sources from automotive manufacturers and heavy industry.
High-power lasers accounted for $67.1 million of the quarterly revenues, while sales of pulsed lasers – up more than 50% from the same period last year – were responsible for $50.4 million, thanks in part to marking applications in consumer electronics production, where IPG believes it has won market share.
IPG’s CEO Valentin Gapontsev added that the company had gained market share with a key automotive customer in France that had previously been using a rival’s technology for welding applications.
While the wider European economy remains weak, the location of much of the continent’s automotive manufacturing base in Germany remains a strong sector for now, and IPG appears to be benefiting. For example, optics.org understands that BMW is investing heavily in fiber lasers to be used at its Mini production facility in the UK.
Japan could provide the next wave of demand. In an investor conference call, Gapontsev said that while all the major Japanese auto makers were already using IPG’s lasers to some degree, it was typically in limited quantities. With one of Japan’s leading car producers set to decide on a major new investment soon, IPG could be set for strong future business here.
It isn’t just the traditional automotive production centers that IPG is penetrating. CFO Tim Mammen added that there was “a great degree of optimism” surrounding the opportunity to sell more lasers to Chinese auto makers in 2013, while the company has also received orders for some large systems to update a large automotive facility in Russia.
The company also has an agreement with the giant Russian energy producer Gazprom, and Gapontsev described another novel application in which a customer is using an IPG laser to drill “several kilometres into the earth” to access oil and gas wells more efficiently.
While IPG remains on a strong growth track, investors appeared disappointed with news that the company’s book-to-bill ratio in the third quarter slipped below unity, prompting guidance for the final quarter of the year that suggests a slight drop-off in revenues from the record-breaking Q3.
“We will face challenges in the fourth quarter, including historical seasonality in some markets and macro-economic pressures in a few key geographies,” said Gapontsev, with seasonal weakness in China becoming an increasing influence on IPG’s business as sales to the country ($34 million in the latest quarter) grow quickly.
At the lower-power end, analyst Mark Douglass from Longbow Research believes that Nufern has expanded laser production in response to some success in marking and engraving applications, particularly in China, and that SPI is benefiting as a second-source supplier in some instances.
For high-power fiber lasers, where IPG rules the roost, JDSU is believed to be gaining some traction via its partnership with the Japanese tool company Amada. But Douglass sees little threat to IPG, and speculates that Mitsubishi may release IPG-equipped systems shortly.
Earlier this month, Mitsubishi issued a release saying that it would unveil a fiber laser system at the Fabtech trade show being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 12-14 November. The release quoted Bill Isaac, the VP of Mitsubishi Laser, saying: “This isn’t the first fiber laser, but we took the time in research and development to make sure that when we entered the market, we had it right.”
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