On March 4, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) announced the public release of their report for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) focused on the outcomes of two pilot projects designed to test and study various product ...
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The zero excise duty on cotton textiles at fibre, yarn, fabric and garment stages announced in the Union Budget 2013-14 will help reduce prices of end products, according to India Ratings & Research (IRR), a Fitch Group Company. The ...
Tags: cotton textiles, fibre, yarn, fabric, garment stages
Shri P. Chidambaram, Shri Manikam Ramaswami, Chairman, TEXPROCIL said “The Budget has addressed many of the issues faced by the textiles industry”. The Budget has restored the “Zero duty excise duty route” for cotton ...
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The Indian textile industry, employing over 100 million people directly and indirectly has been looking for various schemes and assistance in the Union Budget 2013-14 to regain its global competitiveness which faced the worst ever crisis in ...
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Paper and film-based pressure sensitive tapes manufacturer Intertape Polymer is set to invest $26m to relocate and modernize its Columbia, South Carolina manufacturing operations. According to the company, the new facility will house ...
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Multi-line commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance company Society Insurance (Society) has selected Cover-All Policy to upgrade its entire policy platform. Society Insurance's policy platform comprises rating, quoting, ...
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Food Safety Tech, the organisers of Food Labs Conference, which will be held in conjunction with Pittcon 2013, March 19-20, at the Pennsylvania Convention Centre, Philadelphia, PA, announces the agenda of speakers for the two-day event. ...
The White House Wednesday unveiled details of an infrastructure spending plan that includes faster approvals for certain energy projects. The plan, which calls for spending $50 billion on transportation infrastructure and new partnerships ...
ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project schedule overruns got even worse in 2012, according to newly released data from Panorama Consulting. Some 172 respondents replied to Panorama's online survey between September and ...
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Rimera Group, a services division of Russian steel pipe producer ChTPZ, has announced that it has opened a modernized workshop for mechanical treatment and electroplating at its Izhneftemash facility. Production facilities of the workshop ...
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New York-based Gerber Life Insurance has selected MajescoMastek’s Elixir North America policy administration platform to manage all its business lines. As a part of Gerber Life's two-year transformation and modernization initiative, ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it has received the final acceptance from the Indian steel giant Tata Steel regarding the modernization of coiler No. 3 at its hot strip plant in IJmuiden, Netherlands. The coiler No. 3 ...
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10 years ago Rosink successfully installed its first Air Quad Web Splitting Unit, called RAQSU40 on to a Trützschler high production revolving flat card. This started as a so called retrofitting project (textile machine modernization) ...
Sentry Electric, one of North America’s most experienced and knowledgeable manufacturers of outdoor luminaires, announced that Building Operating Management Magazine has selected the company’s LED bollards as a recipient of its ...
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California has terminated its contract with SAP in connection with a $371 million software system that was supposed to overhaul the state's payroll system but instead ended up mired in major delays and cost overruns. Some $254 million has ...
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