Boxed beverages, like juice-boxes, have been around since the mid-60s. Children have been drinking juice out of cardboard squares lined with plastic or aluminum for years. This hybrid, multi-layer construction makes recycli ng the ...
LONDON, Dec. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty-five percent of private equity (PE) executives cite the growing capital requirements of the oil and gas industry as the foremost driver of their investment activity in the industry, according to a ...
Tags: the oil and gas industry, private equity, major capital investment
The Canadian Trucking Alliance is asking the federal government to invalidate contract clauses compensating shippers from liability in case of incidents involving dangerous goods such as crude oil. CTA's president and CEO, David Bradley, ...
Tags: Transportation, logistics, Trucking
FinancialForce.com, a company specializing in back office applications, has announced that it has acquired the business and assets of Less Software including the firm's supply chain management (SCM) solutions. The cloud application suite ...
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Campus networking solutions vendor Brocade has unveiled its ICX 7750 fixed-port, high density 10/40 GbE switch. Brocade says the switch enables scale-out of campus aggregation networks, in theory helping organisations reduce TCO, add ...
IT market research and advisory firm IDC has highlighted the potential for Application-Centric Infrastructure to benefit businesses and organisations in the Middle East. The ACI approach was recently announced by Cisco, and it aims to ...
Tags: IDC, Cisco, Application-Centric Infrastructure, Middle East
Altair announced the general availability of Display Manager, a web-based environment for remote visualization of very big data arising from large high-performance computing (HPC) simulations. This product is designed for extreme ...
For the first time since 2002, Thanksgiving falls as late as the calendar possibly allows it to, but eager holiday shoppers are already mapping their shopping strategies for the big weekend. According to a preliminary Thanksgiving weekend ...
Tags: US Shoppers, Holiday
An AC-LED partnership between Lynk Labs and Thomas Research Products; funding announcements from Ledzworld, EcoSense, and Once Innovations; and new large-diameter patterned sapphire substrates from Rubicon top the recent SSL news space. ...
More than one million homebrewers in the US brew two million barrels annually, which represents a small but sizeable portion (1%) of total US production, according to a survey by The American Homebrewers Association (AHA). The ...
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The market research report "Flexible Packaging Market by End-Use (Food, Beverage, Personal Care & Pharmaceutical), Material (Polypropylene, BOPP, CPP, Polyethylene, EVOH, PA, BOPET, PVC, Aluminum, Paper, Cellulosic) - Global Trends & ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, Food Packaging, Packaging, Printing
Made in USA Certified will present a webinar entitled "Building Business and Building Trust with a 'Made in USA' Claim" explaining its proprietary, independent supply chain certification process to authenticate and label apparel as Made in ...
Tags: Textile, Made in USA
It's becoming an almost common sight in convention halls and conference centers all over America: Dozens, sometimes hundreds, of small business owners packed in rows, sipping coffee and listening to a passionate presentation about how to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Few fleet managers will be surprised to learn that a modern lift truck can collect data about every facet of its operation, well beyond the simple hour meter. Many are familiar with the concept that microprocessors onboard even the most ...
Tags: Lift Truck
According to a report by the Food Institute, consumer packaged goods (CPG) marketers introduced nearly 1,900 new products in 2012. With new products hitting store shelves in numbers not seen since pre-recession years—or ever before in ...