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Kings Consolidated Group Announced The Acquisition of Walkers Haulage
Feb 28, 2014Kings Consolidated Group has announced the acquisition of New South Wales-based haulage business, Walker’s Haulage. Walker’s has annualised revenues of around $25m and the business specialises in the transportation of heavy ...
Tags: transportation of heavy freight, prime movers, strategic opportunities
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A New Report Showed Australia's Reliance on Imported Transport Fuel
Feb 28, 2014A new report released by NRMA Motoring & Services has shown Australia’s reliance on imported transport fuel has risen from 60 per cent in 2000 to 91 per cent in 2013, putting immense pressure on Australia’s liquid fuel security ...
Tags: imported transport fuel, medicine supplies, electric vehicles
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Retrieving Organs From Brain-Dead Donors Is Logistically Challenging
Feb 28, 2014Retrieving organs from brain-dead donors is logistically challenging and time consuming in hospitals. Multiple surgical teams often fly to a donor's hospital but frequently face delays in retrieving organs due to crowded operating-room ...
Tags: Moving Organ Donors, stand-alone facility, lowers costs
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HTC Announced at Mobile World Congress on Monday Its New Power to Give Project
Feb 28, 2014HTC announced at Mobile World Congress on Monday its new Power To Give project, which aims to donate processor power to scientific research. Planning on bringing together the power of millions of smartphones, the Android for altruism ...
Tags: smartphones, app, processor power
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A NEW Technique Be Developed by West Australian Chemists Could Provide Crime Investigators
Feb 28, 2014A NEW technique being developed by West Australian chemists could provide crime investigators with a safer, simpler and more versatile method for extracting good quality fingermarks, even from non-porous surfaces and in wet or humid ...
Tags: extracting good quality fingermarks, NEW technology, toxic solvent
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First Solar Has Reported Full-Year Net Sales of $3.309bn for 2013
Feb 28, 2014First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA - which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services - has reported full-year net sales of $3.309bn for ...
Tags: photovoltaic modules, Electrical
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Living Tissues Could Be Built up Using a 3-D Printer Will Soon Revolutionize Many Fields
Feb 28, 2014Cross section of bioprinted human liver tissue showing hepatocytes (blue nuclei), endothelial cells (red), and hepatic stellate cells (green). (Courtesy Organovo Holdings Inc.) The discovery that living tissues could be built up using a ...
Tags: Organovo, 3-D printer
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Major Telcos Have Launched Dedicated Web Pages for Consumers to Pre-register Interest
Feb 28, 2014The major Telcos have launched dedicated web pages for consumers to pre-register interest for the Galaxy S5, including Optus, Telstra and Vodafone. Samsung took to the stage in Barcelona for its Mobile World Congress launch event this ...
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A Ford Fusion Hybrid Test Vehicle Was Displayed at The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
Feb 28, 2014Ford's first autonomous research vehicles, with protruding sensors and instruments, “kind of look[ed] like a science project” says Chris Attard, a Ford research engineer who works on their replacement. The new one, a Ford Fusion ...
Tags: Autonomous Research Car, protruding sensors and instruments, LIDAR
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CafePod Entered The Annual Marketing 4 Start-up Britain Event Where It Was Chosen by WDMP
Feb 28, 2014CaféPod entered the annual Marketing 4 Start-Up Britain event where it was chosen by WDMP, who will act as a mentor, providing them with marketing expertise, strategy guidance and support on a pro bono basis. CaféPod roasts ...
Tags: Coffee Capsules, CaféPod
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Steve Morgan,Said While The Figures Were Encouraging,More Needed to Be Done
Feb 28, 2014Nampak, producer of plastic milk bottles, commissioned the survey which found that 316,054 tonnes of plastic bottles were collected for recycling in 2012, and of those, 96,396 tonnes were HDPE milk bottles. Steve Morgan, technical manager ...
Tags: Milk Industry, Recycling Practice
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It Might Also Significantly Reduce Your Risk of Stroke, a New Study Suggests
Feb 28, 2014Getting the seasonal flu shot could provide a bonus: It might also significantly reduce your risk of stroke, a new study suggests. "We know that cardiovascular diseases tend to hit during winter, and that the risks may be heightened by ...
Tags: Getting the seasonal flu shot, cause-and-effect relationship
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SIMTEC Announced a New Production Partnership with a Global Healthcare Leader.
Feb 28, 2014SIMTEC Silicone Parts, a custom manufacturer of Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) parts and high-precision LSR 2-Shot components, has announced a new production partnership with a global healthcare leader. SIMTEC will begin production in 2014 ...
Tags: new production partnership, LSR component program, infrastructure
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The Government of Xinjiang Autonomous Region Is Committed to Eliminating 2.4 Million
Feb 28, 2014The government of China's Xinjiang autonomous region has stated that it is committed to eliminating 2.4 million mt of backward steel capacity within two years and will not approve new projects in the steel industry, according to its program ...
Tags: resolving severe overcapacity, Xinjiang, Metallurgy, Mineral&Energy
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The Move Is Designed to Provide Consistency Across The Portfolio of Events
Feb 28, 2014The business, which has 27 packaging shows in 11 countries across Europe, is to align each of the events under one of four brands: Packaging Innovations, Empack, Label&Print and Luxury Packaging. The move is designed to provide ...
Tags: Luxury Packaging, Label&Print
