22.11.2012 − On 19 November, the industrial planing mill Moelven Tom Heurlin commissioned a new Superplan 10V-S300 planing line supplied by the Slovenian mechanical-engineering company Ledinek Engineering. The new line replaced the ...
22.11.2012 − The Latvian birch plywood manufacturer Latvijas Finieris has completed the conversion work at the birch veneer plant trading under the name of Kohila Vineer in Estonia, which was officially putting it back into service at ...
Rail Settlement Plan(RSP),the company that provides IT and retail services to UK rail operators,is upgrading its systems with AWS cloud to provide a next-generation ticket issuing systems as a growing number of commuters adopt the"click and ...
Tags: UK, RSP, AWS, Smart421, rail operators, cloud-based service
Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council's datacentre. It is not a bad place to have an office because the datacentre has been somewhat rejuvenated, thanks in part to modern IT that takes up far less ...
Tags: Interview, ICT, datacentre, commercial IT, cloud computing infrastructure
The United States Air Force(USAF)has scrapped a troubled Oracle enterprise resource planning(ERP)software implementation after spending$1bn(£630m)over the past seven years–and concluding that it would still cost too much to ...
Tags: USAF, ERP, ECSS project
Figures released from leading international,multi-channel brand Debenhams for the 52 weeks to 1 September 2012 showed another strong set of results with highlights including total sales up 2.6%,like-for-like sales up 2.3%inc vat,online ...
Urbis Sapphire lanterns are to be used in modernisation project Following a decision by cabinet members yesterday, streetlights in Powys are to be switched back on. Powys county council has been allocated £1.4 million to modernise ...
Portugal's high quality 'terry' towelling specialist, Carvalho, takes delivery of its first Thies iMaster 'F' dyeing machine and immediately orders another five units to replace its existing dye house plant in a phased modernisation ...
Tags: towelling, terry towelling, dyeing machine, Thies dyeing machine, Carvalho
Johnston Press has mobilised its field sales team using Salesforce.com running on iPads to reduce the need for staff to come into the office. The regional newspaper company, which publishes across the UK and in the republic of Ireland, is ...
Tags: iPads, office, newspaper company, digital media company
Oracle president Mark Hurd has stated that his firm is focusing on the banking sector,which he said has a combination of extremely large IT budgets,and often outmoded systems and applications. "One of the core assets of banks is ...
The Otto Group distances itself from the move towards introducing a standard software package for the entire Group. Instead, all companies in the Otto Group will now plan and implement their own IT solutions. Under the slogan 'Passion for ...
Tags: Otto, IT systems, IT solutions, web retailer
Germany/Brazil-Barix AG is using this year's InnoTrans show(18-21 September,Berlin Exhibition Centre)to highlight a prestigious Brazilian transportation project of its Swiss customer Ortics GmbH that includes more than 400 Barix Annuncicom ...
Tags: Barix IP Audio, Sao Paulo Metro, InnoTrans show, transportation
Services giant CSC,which had a spectacular dispute with the government over its work on the NHS National Programme for IT(NPfIT),is on course to implement its first patient records system after a national agreement was reached earlier this ...
Tags: SCS, Services, Tameside Hospital, patient records system, NPfIT
Everything Everywhere is set to launch high-speed 4G mobile networking in the UK with download speeds at a maximum of up to 40Mbps. Everything Everywhere – now rebranded "EE" – will launch the service before the end of the ...
Tags: Everything Everywhere, high-speed 4G mobile networking
Automation order for ABB Century Cement, India, has contracted ABB to design, engineer and supply integrated automation and modern electrification systems for its Manikgarh Cement plant. The order, worth US$18 million, comes as part of a ...
Tags: market view, cement