Flowers Foods, a US-based baking company, is set to reopen Hostess Brands' bakery facility, Flowers Baking of Henderson in Henderson, Nevada, by 2013-end. The bakery was shut in November 2012 as part of Old HB's liquidation process, which ...
Tags: Flowers Foods, Bakery Facility
Michelin North America Inc. is in the process of reducing production of BFGoodrich consumer tires in the United States. The reason is a drop in demand. On Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, the company began implementing an "indefinite" layoff of ...
Tags: BFG Tires, Michelin Tires
It's reported that AK Steel announced to increase its prices for carbon steel flat products on October 1st and the price rise has become effective immediately. After the adjustment, its prices for hot rolled steel products are at ...
Tags: Carbon Steel Flats, Construction
Regular inspections have been conducted on the number four reactor at Japan's Oi nuclear power plant. However, delayed inspections has once again led to Japan's "zero nuclear power" status. Since nuclear power is still the major source of ...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Triples PV Market
During the third quarter of 2013, end-market demand from the global solar PV industry reached a new record of 9GW. This record demand is up 6% on quarter and almost 20% on year, according to Solarbuzz. Both mid-year quarters, ...
The Governor's Office of Workforce Development (GOWD), in partnership with carpet industry leaders across Northwest Georgia, has launched the Fast Track Innovation Program to provide technicians with On-the-Job training for employment in ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
After Yieh United Steel Corp. (Yusco), one of the major stainless steel producers in Taiwan released new prices for October, Taiwanese major stainless steel wire rod mills Yieh Hsing and Walsin Lihwa released the new prices for October ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, steel, Stainless Wire Rod
Successfully painting traditionally difficult-to-coat substrates used in a wide range of commercial and industrial applications is now much easier due to a Bayer MaterialScience LLC advance in waterborne primer coating raw material ...
Tags: Primer Coatings, Bayer
It's reported that China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan announced to remain its list prices for electric furnace (EF) Al-killed wire rods unchanged for October. Also, the company has remained its list prices for ...
Tags: Wire Rod, Construction
China has this week ordered 58 companies, ranging from steel, coke and cement producers, to cut excess production capacity by the end of the year, in the latest attempt to ease overcapacity in bloated sectors. This is the third batch of ...
Tags: Overcapacity, Metallurgy
It's just like Domino's Pizza: service within a certain window, or you get compensation. Except that it isn't pizza being delivered, it's remanufactured components such as differentials and drive shafts to get your trucks back on the road ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. held an investor meeting today when CEO and President Rich Kramer discussed strategies and goals for the next three years, plus the company's capital allocation plan. "We haven't lost sight of where our ...
Tags: Goodyear, tyre, Auto Parts
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which provides lasers and optical components, modules and subsystems for the optical communications, industrial, and consumer laser markets, has started volume production of its next-generation tunable laser ...
Tags: Oclaro iTLA, Electrical, Electronics
A report "Automotive Paints Market by Coat Type (Electrocoat, Primer, Basecoat, & Clearcoat) by Technology (Solventborne, Waterborne, & Powder Coating), Texture Type (Metallic & Solid), Vehicle Type & Geography - Global Trends & Forecast to ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Automotive Paints
Yang Huiyan, 32, has become China's richest woman of 2013 with a fortune of 51 billion yuan ($8.33 billion), according to Hurun China's Women Rich List 2013, released by the Hurun Research Institute in Shanghai on Tuesday. More than half ...
Tags: Female Billionaires