Smith & Nephew plc has figuratively yanked the job-security bandage off 108 employees at its St. Petersburg, FL, wound-care plant. The company plans to close the factory and lay the workers off by January 9, according to a report in the ...
Tags: Job Cuts, Smith&Nephew, Health
FibeRio Technology Corporation has launched a new generation of Forcespinning technology specifically designed to meet the production needs of fine fibre media producers and converters. FibeRio says the introduction of the Fibre Engine FX ...
Tags: fine fibre media producers, Forcespinning technology, Textile
US-based Boulevard Brewing has started construction on an expansion project in Kansas City, Missouri which will increase the company's fermentation capacity by 40%. The $12m Cellar Five project includes a fermentation facility spanning ...
Tags: Brewing Engineering, fermentation facility, Agriculture
Private label beverage producer Cott Corporation has agreed to acquire US-based water and coffee producer DSS Group for $1.25bn. The two companies have signed a definitive merger agreement, which will be closed by the end of January ...
Tags: direct-to-customer delivery, beverage platform, Agriculture
Covidien described its new Puritan Bennett 980 ventilator as “simple, safe, and smart” when it won regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe in early 2014. But half a year later, it is now the subject of a Class I-level recall ...
VODKA O launches ‘naturally crafted’ carbonated vodka cocktails in Australia Australian owned Artisan Spirit Merchants (ASM) has just released a new range of ‘naturally crafted’ premixed Vodka cocktails, under its ...
Tags: VODKA O, 'Naturally Crafted', Food
Advenira Enterprises Inc., a developer of Solution Derived Nanocomposite (SDN) coating technology, announced that its patented high-performance, toxic-free F1A12 coating has entered the Chinese market in cooperation with US engineering ...
Evonik Industries has announced an expansion of its specialty silica capacities in Ako, Japan through a holding in DSL Japan Co. Ltd. (DSL). Evonik holds 51 percent of shares in DSL, a joint venture with the Japanese Shionogi & Co. Ltd. The ...
Tags: Specialty Silica, Chemicals, Construction
Lotte Liqor’s first beer, Kloud, burst onto the market with aplomb. “We expect to bring a change in the history of Korea’s beer industry, often reputed as ‘boring,’ with this kind of real beer,” the ...
Tags: Beer Market, Krones, Packaging
Sinotruk HOWO light truck introduction meeting was held in Xi'an on August 22, 2014. The key products are high end Tongshuai light trucks and medium hanjiang light trucks. Navistar, Wuxi Diesel engines, ISUZU, Chaoyang diesel engines, ...
Tags: Sinotruk HOWO Light, Exhibition, Auto Parts
Mark Chung has joined Cooper to lead business development and strategy in the Americas. Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. has appointed Mark Chung vice president, strategy and business development for the Americas. He reports to Chris Ostrander, ...
Tags: Cooper, Executive Team, Accessories
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that an additional treatment technology will be added to the existing treatment plant at the Dewey Loeffel Landfill Superfund site in Nassau, Rensselaer County, New ...
Tags: existing treatment plant, EPA, Service
Crown is implementing even more “green” business practices at their new Brockton Facility. The new facility is slated to be fully operational in the fall of 2014, and will feature many new energy efficient technologies. Plant ...
Tags: Crown, Apparel, Accessories
Four years since last exhibiting at CINTE, Super Absorbent Fibre manufacturer Technical Absorbents Ltd (TAL) is gearing up for the 2014 event. It will use the three day exhibition – held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre ...
As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy and power as graphene.Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is ...