China's smog has made masks and air purifiers the hottest of commodities. Now, a new product is getting all the attention: bottled air. BBC screenshots of a woman breathing air from a can went viral on the Internet this week, with the ...
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Cooke Seafood Group has initiated an offer to acquire Uruguayan seafood company Fripur S.A. Cooke's exclusive investment banking advisor for the deal is Antarctica Advisors. The acquisition offer was in line with the Court's ...
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Graphic consumer packaging and corrugated packaging specialist Menasha Packaging has installed a new large-format flatbed die cutter and litho labeler/laminator in a bid to increase production efficiency and capacity in Canada. The ...
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The comparison between convetional and LED streetlights. (Photo Courtesy of LED Streetlight Upgrade Project of City of St. Catharines) On Dec 17, the City of St. Catharines, which sits in Southern Ontario, Canada, is switching its high- ...
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Unseasonably strong gasoline demand is proving for US refiners to be the gift that keeps on giving this holiday season, as support from seasonal diesel demand is tamped down by record high temperatures across much of the US. Gasoline ...
Paper and packaging firm WestRock has agreed to acquire Cenveo Packaging in a $105m deal. Based in Connecticut, the US, Cenveo Packaging operates six facilities across North America where it produces folded carton, shrink sleeve and ...
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Specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has appointed Arjang J. (AJ) Roshan as president & CEO, effective 15 February. He replaces Jacques L’Ecuyer, who co-founded the firm in 2000 and ...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled that Canada and Mexico could impose tariffs worth $1bn on goods from the US in response to the latter's COOL law. The global trade body stated that the US meat labelling law is ...
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Cadence Design Systems Inc of San Jose, CA, USA has collaborated with Lumerical Solutions Inc of Vancouver, BC, Canada and PhoeniX B.V. of Enschede, The Netherlands to jointly develop an integrated electronic/photonic design automation ...
TruStar Energy, one of the nation’s leading developers of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling stations, announced today that it has completed construction of a private CNG fueling station for FCA US LLC. Located at the company's ...
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Eighty-four-year-old Tu Youyou arrived in Sweden on Friday to collect China's first Nobel Prize in medicine for creating an anti-malarial drug that saved millions of people across the world. Half a century ago, the pharmacologist derived ...
Spring wheat growers will have a new herbicide option in 2016. Dow AgroSciences announced that PerfectMatch herbicide, broadleaf weed and grass control solution for spring wheat and durum, received U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...
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As Dow AgroSciences looks to the future of weed control, it's decided to sell its entire global dinitroaniline (DNA) herbicide portfolio. Gowan Company announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the DNA ...
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Publicly-listed organic infant food producer Bellamy’s has entered into a multi-million dollar agreement with dairy producer Fonterra. The strategic agreement has been made for five years and Fonterra Oceania Managing Director ...
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Grand River Foods has received funding worth $1.3m from Ontario to expand its processing facility in Cambridge, Canada. In addition to the funds it received from the Ontario Government, Grand River Foods will invest $13m in the ...
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