The Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF) announced Thursday that it has awarded funding to five Clemson researchers to further develop their Clemson technologies through a newly established program, the CURF Technology Maturation ...
Tags: CURF, Commercialization, Electronics
The global food processing and packaging company said producers in both developed and emerging dairy markets need to address the careful balancing act required to ensure sustainable business success. Tetra Pak's Dairy Index reveals that ...
Tags: dairy products, food
Germany based, The Hohenstein Institute now offers allergen-resistance testing of mattress and bed covers using real dust mite excrement as an accredited service. In the test, all components of the encasing or what is called the textile ...
Tags: Certification, Textile, Mattress
Cal-Maine Foods, a producer and marketer of shell eggs, reported that its first-quarter (Q1) profit surged from last year, with boost in net sales due to higher volumes and average selling prices. Quarterly net sales were $356.94m, an ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, shell eggs
Due to be introduced on January 1st 2015, the new waste regulations mean that businesses, including shopping centres and retail outlets in England and Wales, will be required to separate waste paper, metal, plastic and glass for collection. ...
Tags: Can Counts, Shopping Centres, Printing
International credit rating agency Moody's has announced that the outlook for the European steel industry will remain stable until 2015, despite anticipated capacity utilization and profitability improvements. According to Moody's report, ...
Tags: steel industry, Moody's
Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. Frontiers, a manufacturing company that began at the University of ...
Tags: Frontiers, Expand, Electrical
In its interim results for the first six months ending July 31, 2014, UK-based fashion retailer NEXT said it had a good first half, achieving sales and profits ahead of its original expectations. Led primarily by retail stores sales ...
Tags: Apparel, Fashion Apparel
Net loss climbed nearly 27% from a year earlier at Hancock Fabrics, Inc., a retailer of fabrics, sewing materials, etc, in its second fiscal quarter ended July 26, 2014. Hancock reported a net loss of $3.3 million, or negative $0.16 per ...
Tags: Textile, Fabric, Hancock Fabric
Campbell Soup Company today reported its fourth-quarter and full-year results for fiscal 2014. The company reported earnings from continuing operations for the quarter ended Aug. 3, 2014, of $137 million, or $0.43 per share, compared with ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Led by a surge in net income, diluted EPS skyrocketed 62.5% year-on-year at Zumiez Inc, a retailer of action sports related apparel, footwear and accessories for the second fiscal quarter ended August 2, 2014. Net income in the second ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
For the thirteen week period ended August 2, 2014 or the second fiscal quarter of 2014, net income leapt massively from a net loss in the corresponding quarter of 2013 at specialty women's apparel retailer and NYSE-listed Christopher & ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
The economic recovery may be continuing to gather momentum, however the latest information from the BDRC Continental SME Finance Monitor highlights the Forum of Private Business's ongoing concern that distrust of the banking sector is ...
Tags: Economy
Last month the EU proposed a tough set of waste recycling targets that have been met with much resistance by the packaging industry. The new proposals revolve around the aim for 80% of packaging waste materials to be recycled by 2030. ...
Pakistan Yan Merchants Association (PYMA) has asked the Government of Pakistan to immediately increase the supply of energy for the textile industry. Speaking to reporters, PYMA Chairman Abaidullah Sheikh said he has requested the ...
Tags: PYMA, textile industry, Textile