A chunk of Dole Food Co.'s business could end up in the hands of one of Japan's largest trading houses it was announced this week - and China appears to be central to the potential deal. On Wednesday (12 September), Dole, which is in the ...
Tags: Food business, Food industry, Food, food sector
Teijin Limited announced that it has been selected for inclusion in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index(CDLI)2012 in recognition of its approach to and quality of reporting climate-change data.The CDLI works with 655 institutional ...
Taipei, Nov. 7, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) and its Japanese counterpart, the Japan Machinery Federation (JMF), will sign an agreement in March next year to better compete against rapidly rising South Korean ...
Tags: Machinery Industry, cooperation and technical exchanges
Two Japanese firms are launching a Vietnamese factory to make wood-plastic composite building products and plastic pallets, hoping to use it as a low-cost export base for Japan and Southeast Asia. The two companies, Koei Vietnam Co. Ltd. ...
Cyber crime costs UK organisations an average of £2.1m a year each, according to the 2012 Cost of Cyber Crime study by the Ponemon Institute. The cost of attacks on UK organisations range between £400,000 and £7.7m, the ...
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Ho Wah Genting Bhd's (HWGB) subsidiary MyLED Opto Technology Sdn Bhd has secured two contracts valued at RM800mil to supply light emitting diodes (LED) to two Japanese companies. MyLED Opto Technology had on Tuesday signed five-year ...
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Despite a cumulative silicon carbide (SiC) raw wafer and epiwafer market that will not exceed $80m in 2012, the body of related patents comprises more than 1772 patent families and over 350 companies since 1928, according to the report ...
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Positec, a China-based manufacturer of power tools, lawn and garden equipment and accessories, is set to begin selling its products in Wal-Mart stores this fall, says Positec Chief Executive Tom Duncan. It will start with fall clean-up ...
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Having gone through political turmoil, fierce war and economic recession, Thailand had a difficult year in 2011. The major floods in July even worsened the situation. Japanese companies in Thailand, including Toyota and Toshiba, as well as ...
With hundreds of business owners and corporate managers taking part, the 12th annual general meeting (AGM) of the Taiwan Hand Tool Manufacturers’ Association (THTMA) was held on Oct. 7, 2011, in central Taiwan’s Taichung City. ...
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Sarawak's exports of log and timber products grew one percent to RM3.71 billion in the first six months of 2011 from RM3.67 billion in the previous corresponding period. According to Perkasa, the Sarawak Timber Industry Development ...
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Japanese blow molding machine supplier Nissei ASB Machine Co. Ltd. sees India as an increasingly key part of its future, so it is boosting investment at its Mumbai factory and studying using that facility to expand into new businesses such ...
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Japanese companies, Thailand’s biggest foreign investors, may spend more to build factories in neighbors including Indonesia and Vietnam after the worst flooding in 70 years disrupted global production. “Executives recognize the ...
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In Sino-Japanese plastics trade today, almost all of the investment flows from Japan toward China. But injection press maker Haitian International Holdings Ltd. is reversing that, at least in a small way, opening up a technical center in ...
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The cost of solar cells and microchips has nowhere to go but down because of a supply glut for the commodity they’re made from, a brittle charcoal-colored semiconductor baked in ovens at 600 degrees centigrade. Polysilicon has plunged ...
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