A pilot project between the shipping company Lauritzen Bulkers and Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos has significantly reduced energy consumption on a cargo vessel. The project, which was carried out on Lauritzen Bulkers’ Durban ...
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HMS Group issued the following statement regarding orders received during Q3 2012. Highlights In Q3 2012, order intake under management accounts more than doubled, up 149% YoY and amounted to Rub 10.9 bn (USD 356 mn [1]) versus Rub 4.4 bn ...
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Crane ChemPharma Flow Solutions announced the introduction of its new Depa Nopped S4 Diaphragm for chemical processing applications. Featuring an innovative “nopped” surface, designed to create advantageous flow conditions ...
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In early 2013 the Frankenthal-based pump and valve manufacturer KSB will launch its new compact unit for reverse osmosis seawater desalination. The Salino Pressure Center consists of an axial piston pump and an axial piston motor, arranged ...
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Finsbury Food Group,the UK baker,has sold shares in the company to raise funds to invest in its cake business. The company,which makes own-label cakes,as well as branded products under licence,said today(14 November)it had raised GBP3.9m ...
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IDG News Service - Texas Instruments will lay off 1,700 employees as it refocuses its efforts away from the wireless sector -- including cellphones and tablets -- and toward embedded systems, the company announced Wednesday. The news ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Air Force has decided to scrap a major ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project after spending US$1 billion, concluding that finishing it would cost far too much more money for too little gain. ...
Network World - Microsoft's Office 365 service has suffered two email outages within a week of each other that affected some customers in North and South America that stemmed from different causes but ended in the same result: failed email ...
IDG News Service - Adobe has shut down Connectusers.com, a community forum site for users of its Adobe Connect Web conferencing platform, because the site's user database was compromised. On Tuesday, a hacker named "ViruS_HimA" claimed ...
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Computerworld - The best move Microsoft could make after Steven Sinofsky's departure is to ditch the culture of secrecy he brought to Windows, analysts said today. "One thing that may be a benefit to Microsoft is to drop the belief that ...
Computerworld Hong Kong - Two hotels in Hong Kong are leveraging mobile apps to give guests a new experience during their stay. Both Hotel ICON in Tsim Sha Tsui East and L'hotel A(c)lan in Kwun Tong have integrated apps for guests' use ...
NASA is scrambling to implement full disk encryption on agency laptops after one containing unencrypted personal information on a"large"number of people was recently stolen. Agency employees were told of the October 31 theft of the ...
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Sonoco Products Co. announced two expansions to its growing plastics packaging business this week. The newest: 18,000 square feet of space at its Waynesville, N.C., plant, where it plans to start up a new multilayer, trim-in-place ...
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If there was one lesson for political pundits from last week's presidential election,it was that basic statistical modeling techniques can be used to predict election outcomes with stunning accuracy. Quantitative analyst and New York ...
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The University of Massachusetts Lowell has added an SE-EV Series all-electric injection press at its new Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center (ETIC). The press, from Sumitomo (SHI) Demag, will be used to support graduate-level ...
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