HM Insurance Group, a Highmark company, has developed new products to help producers in calculating and understanding the impact of Affordable Care Act (ACA) taxes and fees on self-insured groups. The new fee calculator and ...
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Connecticut-based specialty investment management firm, Fermat Capital Management has inked a licensing agreement with EQECAT for use of its Risk Quantification & Engineering (RQE) version 13 catastrophe modeling platform. As part of the ...
Saudi Cement Co has announced that it has signed a contract with a Chinese firm worth $19.9m to rehabilitate kilns 4 and 5 at its Hofuf factory. The firm said that the deal had been siged with M/S Sinoma Technology & Equipment Group Co, ...
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Following the settlement of its debt tender offers, and in keeping with the company’s intention to provide an update as stated in its March 13, 2013 announcement regarding completion of its credit card portfolio sale, Target ...
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CEA-Leti spin off Aledia, has made its first GaN LEDs on 8 inch (200mm) silicon wafers. The cost of Aledia’s LED 3D chips based on microwires is expected to be four times less than traditional planar (2D) LEDs. What's more, Aledia ...
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Agricultural nutrients maker Agrium Inc. (AGU, AGU.TO) Tuesday said that Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC has recommended that its clients vote for all 12 of Agrium's director nominees using only the white proxy. Glass Lewis is a leading ...
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Aledia, a developer of LEDs-based on disruptive microwire GaN-on-Silicon technology, announced today that it has made its first LEDs on 8-inch (200mm) silicon wafers. The cost of Aledia’s LED 3D chips based on microwires is expected ...
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In an IC fab, cycle time is the time interval between when a lot is started and when it is completed. The benefits of shorter cycle time during volume production are well known: reduced capital costs associated with having less work in ...
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A three-year contract to supply liquid milk to Sainsbury has been won by Dairy Crest after a competitive tender. Dairy Crest has retained its contract, which will run into 2017, to supply the retail giant. The firm said that while the ...
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Russian mining and steel group Mechel has announced that it has signed a series of agreements for the disposal of its Romanian steel assets - Ductil Steel Mechel, Campia Turzii S.A., Mechel Targoviste S.A., Mechel East Europe Metallurgical ...
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Dean Foods' share price was down 9% today (13 February) after the US dairy giant issued a cautious outlook for the year. Shares in the group were down to US$16.73 in early morning US trading today, despite the firm booking earnings of ...
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Gildan Activewear Inc announced record results for the first quarter of a fiscal year, which was slightly in excess of the guidance range which it had previously provided, and reconfirmed its earnings guidance for fiscal 2013 which it had ...
Najran Cement Co has announced that it is shutting down its No.1 production line for 23 days from 9 Febroary in order to carry out maintenance work. The company said it was "premature to determine the financial impact" of the shutdown, ...
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Novozymes acquires Iogen Bio-Products, industrial enzyme business of Ottawa-based Iogen Corporation for CAD 67.5 million (approximately DKK 370 million) and potential earn-out payments of up to CAD 12.5 million (approximately DKK 70 ...
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The new BlackBerry marketing theme could well be, “Not dead yet”, as the world prepares to hear about two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones, which are due to be announced on Wednesday. Days before the announcement, there is fairly ...
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