We’re now into our sixth year since the amended Canadian hours-of-service regulations came into effect on Jan. 1, 2007. Remember those heady days? I remember being impressed by the sleep research that had been done leading up to those ...
Tags: Rulemaking Process
While oil floats on water, achieving good separation and a high quality water stream is difficult. Louis van Schie explains how the Suparator oil separator is designed to carry out this exacting process. Oil/water separation is a common ...
The public cloud services market is predicted to exceed $180 billion by 2015, according to a newly released report by Gartner. The research firm has forecasted continued strong growth in public cloud services and says that end-user ...
Calyxo GmbH of Bitterfeld/Wolfen-Thalheim, Germany, the largest manufacturer of cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar panels in Europe (with a current annual capacity of 85MW), says it welcomes the agreements between European Union and ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The founder of the UpTime Institute, Kenneth G. Brill, 69, died Tuesday, the institute's parent company announced. Brill, an electrical engineer by training, is credited with playing an enormous role in shaping the modern data center ...
Tags: Ken Brill, Data Center
Greencore's third quarter (Q3) results tell a tale of two regions, with strong progress in the US offsetting declines in its UK home market. Greencore's product mix includes a range of prepared meals Italian ready meals, poor weather ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Lectra’s Board of Directors, chaired by André Harari, reviewed the consolidated financial statements for the first half of 2013, after a limited review by the Statutory Auditors. Highlights: Revenues: €99.2 million ...
Akzo Nobel N.V. reported a four percent decrease in revenues in the second quarter compared with the same period last year. The company reported that this was due to divestments and adverse currencies against a backdrop of continued ...
Tags: Akzonobel, Decorative Paints
FLSmidth has received orders from two Brazilian cement producers, comprising a new 3300tpd line and a OK-33 vertical roller mill. The new kiln line is for Companhia De Cimento Da Paraíba s Pitimbu Plant, in Brazil's Paraiba state. ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Georg Fischer generated sales of CHF 1,837 million during the first half-year of 2013, slightly lower than in the previous year. Adjusted for currency effects, divestments and acquisitions, the figure is equivalent to last year?s first ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
The Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q3 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER) confirms the stabilization of the EU economy in the second half of 2013 and a gradual but slow recovery ...
Tags: Steel Using Industries, Mineral
The ability of OPEC to influence the balance of crude markets is diminishing in the face of growing US oil production, with 2013 expected to be a rare instance of a year-on-year decline in the call on the producer group to maintain balanced ...
Tags: Chemicals
On the issue of global competitiveness, it's between the U.S. and China. India may have most of the IT services and development work, but China has tech manufacturing and its R&D investments are rapidly expanding. Indeed, China is on ...
Tags: Computer Products, IT services
Confusion over job cuts at Tulip is rife among industry insiders and analysts at a time when things were beginning to look up for UK and export markets for pork. Tulip's pork business is doing well, according to industry commentators ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
For decades, process instrumentation specifiers have faced the decision whether to use a mechanical switch or a continuous transmitter for a given application. Either type of instrument can be used to effectively control industrial ...
Tags: Switch, Instrumentation Options, Transmitter, Hybrid