South Africa-based Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT), one of the world's largest coal handling ports, has announced that it exported 5.45 million mt of coal in February, up 29.5 percent from 4.21 million mt in January and down 10.5 percent ...
Tags: Coal Terminal, Mineral, Metallurgy
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted to review Iroko Pharmaceuticals New Drug Application (NDA) for lower dose submicron diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), with a proposed indication of treatment ...
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Samsung was the largest applicant for European patents last year. Siemens, BASF, Ericsson and Bosch were all in the top ten for applications and, for the first time, A Chinese company – ZTE – made it into the top ten. The ...
Tags: Samsung, patent, ZTE, European patents
ECRU, Miss. --- Promotional upholstery producer American Furniture Mfg. reported a 13.2% sales decline in 2012, but the company reduced its operating loss to $1.52 million. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by parent company ...
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WESTPORT, CT (BRAIN) — Compass Diversified Holdings, parent of Camelbak and Fox, reported strong growth in sales of both brands during 2012. "At Fox we posted another strong quarter as business continues to perform at a high level ...
Tags: Fox, Transportation
Dorel Industries' bike division saw a 7 percent gain in revenue in 2012. Total revenue across the recreational and leisure segment was $928 million, up from $861 million the previous year. The segment includes all of its bicycle brands.? ...
Tags: Bike, Transportation, Dorel Industries
Switzerland based SMS Concast has announced that it has received an order from the Indian steelmaker BMM Ispat for the delivery of a combined-caster. With the new caster, BMM Ispat will be able to produce 1.1 million mt of billets and ...
Tags: SMS Concast, steelmaker BMM, caster
PaperWorks Industries has announced the sale of its flexible packaging assets to Exopack, a $900m flexible packaging converter. PaperWorks Packaging Group sales senior vice president Lisa Pruett said in the coming months, the company ...
BASF and Xinjiang Markor Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Markor) plan to establish two joint ventures for the production of butanediol (BDO) and polytetrahydrofuran (PolyTHF, chemical name: polytetramethylene ether glycol) in Korla, Xinjiang ...
Tags: Markor, BASF, BDO, joint ventures
Neuhausen-Hamberg (Germany), February 2013. At FIT show 2013 in Telford (UK) Bystronic glass will inform about its innovative system solutions for the modern processing of glass. The customers will get an overview about the latest machinery ...
Tags: Innovative Systems, Glass Processing, Construction, Manufacturing
Chocolate brand Elizabeth Shaw has commissioned New Vision Packaging to create Easter egg box, for a 200g egg that is being sold in Asda stores across the UK. The new packaging structure, which is made of virgin-grade card completely, ...
Cleaning products manufacturer Ecover and Closed Loop Recycling have launched a new initiative to recycle waste plastics from the seas around the UK. The material will be recycled at Closed Loop's Dagenham facility and will later on be ...
The telecoms industry is set for huge growth over coming years, thanks to the protracted maturation in the smartphone and tablet markets, said research agency Ovum in a statement on 2 March. The prediction is that that partnerships will ...
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US-based food processing equipment provider Provisur Technologies has acquired MultiTec, a technology leader in autoloading systems, based in Lotte, Germany. This acquisition further strengthens Provisur's global technology, sales, ...
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Over the past year, it’s been impossible to ignore what research firms IDC and Gartner describe as the four forces of technology. Cloud, big data, mobility and social forces are now driving IT innovation, we are told, and woe to the ...