Minister Durkan's department had previously proposed increasing the levy from 5p to 10p from April 2014. However, Durkan said provisional figures showing a large reduction single use bag numbers had convinced him to drop the planned ...
Tags: Plastic Bag, Packaging, Printing
The termination of China's Home Appliance Subsidiary programs in first-half 2013 caused LED backlight market demand to ease in June and July 2013. However, some chip makers have reflected rebounding performances due to stable market orders ...
Tags: LED Makers, LED Lighting
Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and subsystems) has expanded its family of radio-frequency power transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Tags: Microsemi, Electrical, Electronics
The design agency worked with Nestlé Purina PetCare Europe and has been the incumbent agency since 2004, when it first designed packaging for the same range of Purina Felix products. Seymourpowell's brief was to further develop ...
FTR's Trucking Conditions Index (TCI) for July jumped 30 percent from June, a healthy sign, but not one that points to any major positive changes on the horizon. "The jump reflects the indexes forward look at an expected pricing uptick ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, trucking
ALMOST two in three electricity smart meters installed in some parts of Victoria are not fully working as the deadline for the contentious rollout looms. About 350,000 devices fitted in SP AusNet's region are yet to go "live" with remote ...
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Seattle Bike Supply has promoted John "JQ" Quattrocchi to vice president of purchasing and product development and Rickey Strawn to national sales manager as the Accell Group-owned distributor positions for growth in 2014. "These ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
As Leisure Trends Group broadcast its 2013 Pre-Interbike Sales Trends webinar live from a soggy and flooded Boulder, Colo., the topic of weather was impossible to ignore. ? While 2012 was the year of much sun and no rain across the ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Rains along Colorado's Front Range — from Fort Collins to Denver — eased up a bit Friday morning, but were expected to resume later, adding to already historic flooding in one of the U.S.'s most popular cycling destinations and ...
Tags: Bike, Transportation
It is reported that Korea's Hyundai Steel fired up its third blast furnace, a move interpreted as to grab market share from POSCO and Japan for supplying the cars and ships industry. Hyundai Steel started its first blast furnace in 2010 to ...
Tags: Hyundai Steel, Construction, steel
The Ministry of Land and Resources announced on Thursday the maximum amount of rare earths for the exploration has been set at 93,800 metric tons for 2013. The cap for the exploration of ion-absorbed-type rare earth ores is set at 17,900 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, rare earths
Efforts by the government and industry to curb the oversupply of Chinese metallurgical coke were much discussed at the 11th China International Coking Technology and Coke Market Congress in Guangxi Wednesday. Chinese coke producers "must ...
Tags: Coke Market, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Dr Phillip Hallam-Baker, a vice president and principal scientist in charge of web security software development at security software vendor Comodo, has published a paper calling for a more robust internet architecture that can combat web ...
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Twitter has announced that it is to file for an initial public offering (IPO) with the US regulators. The filing is confidential, as is allowed under US law for corporations with less than $1bn in revenue. Such companies do not have to ...
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European sports network Eurosport has selected telecoms and cloud services provider Interoute's video conferencing system to improve communication at the sports media group. Interoute is deploying the video conferencing systems at ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation