Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has launched HubCab - a transportation tracking tool, in collaboration with German automaker Audi and GE. HubCab is transportation tracking tool that uses real time urban data to develop ...
Tags: tools, car technologies, taxi system
Being comfortable in a piece of furniture you spend 8 hours or more a day in is king. It helps you work well and be efficient. If you sat in an office chair all day that was too stiff or was broken you would be distracted and most likely ...
Tags: Office Chairs, Office Seating, executive office chairs
Kronos Worldwide, Inc. reported net income for the fourth quarter of 2013 of $2.9 million, or $.03 per share, compared to a net loss of $18.1 million, or $.16 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2012. For the full year of 2013, Kronos ...
Brazil's iron ore export volume amounted to 22.63 million mt in February this year, decreasing by 8.40 percent compared to January and up 9.46 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the information released by the ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, flat steel, steel
Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Heibei Iron and Steel Group has announced that in February this year its subsidiary Tangshan Iron and Steel Co. (Tangsteel) exported a total of 2,332 mt of pickled cold forming steel for application ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that during the first 11 months ended February 28 of the financial year 2013-14 its iron ore output amounted to 26.42 million mt, up 12.3 percent ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral
Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that it increased its supplies to building contractors in Russia to 3.362 million mt in 2013. This constitutes a 14 percent increase compared to 2012. In the whole of 2013, Severstal Invest's ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel, steel products, Construction Industry
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that for the month of January 2014, US steel mills shipped 7,895,293 net tons, a 3.4 percent increase from the 7,632,629 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2013, and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel, Steel Mill
The CEO of Ecco said the family-owned Danish shoemaker was able to increase operating margins in 2013 despite rapidly growing leather and labor costs and production constraints related to a fire a 2011 fire that destroyed its factory in ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Wholesale inventories rose 0.6% in January but sales declined, the Commerce Department reported March 11. Sales declined 1.9% in January, the largest drop since March 2009 when the economy was in recession. The rise in inventories ...
Signs of the recovery were certainly in the air during the 6th Apparelsourcing show in Paris, which took place from 17 to 20 February in Paris Le Bourget. There was a great atmosphere of burgeoning activity throughout the four days of the ...
Tags: Apparel
The corrugator was made to Weedon’s specification by JS Corrugated Machinery of China, one of the largest corrugator manufacturers in the world. Weedon has invested in the new machine to introduce a range of environmentally ...
Tags: Less-flute, eco-friendly paper, corrugator
Alongside changing consumer habits, there have been recent developments in technology meaning there is now opportunity for manufacturers and suppliers to be more creative than ever before. So, what developments should we be looking out ...
Tags: innovation trends, Personalised packaging, Pack differentiation
New brand aims to 'help satisfy preschoolers' demands to have their own technology'. KD UK is launching Tech Too, a new brand to 'help satisfy preschoolers' demands to have their own technology'. Tech Too has already proved to be ...
Tags: Toys
Coretronic shipped 6.47 million backlight units (BLUs) in February, decreasing 19% sequentially, according to the company. Coretronic also shipped 81,000 DLP projectors in February, slipping 4% sequentially, and expects shipments in March ...
Tags: DLP projectors, projectors, Office Supplies