Amcor Tobacco Packaging is all set to shut down its US manufacturing facility in Danville and is expected to lay off about 35 employees. Including the Danville location, Amcor operates four manufacturing plants in the US along with ...
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Esurance, a US-based direct-to-consumer personal car insurance company, has launched a new online tool to help its policyholders to better estimate the impact of life events on car insurance premiums. Dubbed The What If Calculator, the ...
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Canada-based Manulife Financial has signed an agreement with TELUS Health to implement its eClaims platform to simplify and accelerate the submission and reimbursement of extended healthcare claims. Under the terms of the agreement, the ...
Plymouth Rock Assurance, an automobile insurance company, has upgraded its online quoting portal to better serve Massachusetts consumers and agents. Originally launched in March 2011, the online quoting portal has been updated to enable ...
Full-line importer AICO is expanding its International Home Furnishings Center showroom here to showcase the new Mia Bella by Michael Amini line of contemporary leather upholstery. The 8,000-square-foot expansion will feature an "art ...
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Martin Chapman Full line importer AICO has hired Martin Chapman for the newly created post of director of leather development. Chapman, who spent most of his career at LeatherTrend, will be involved in merchandising the Mia Bella by ...
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Finnish company Eltete TPM Engineering is all set to deliver PaperRoll-to-PaperPallet & automatic paper pallet assembly (APPA) technology to Nagoya in Japan. According to the company, the capacity of the plant, which will be delived in ...
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BP has a portfolio of 45 major upstream projects that it wants to focus on to 2020, company CEO Bob Dudley said Thursday, following the company's unprecedented $38 billion asset sell-off program in the wake of the Macondo oil spill in 2010. ...
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Russian steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced its financial results for 2012 according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). In 2012, MMK reported a net loss of $94 million compared to a net ...
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced today an accounting change relating to expense recognition for company-sponsored pension plans. The new method, adopted in the first quarter of 2013, will result in simpler, more transparent ...
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In anticipation of growing demand for industrial and automotive applications, Japan’s Toshiba Corp has started volume production of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices at its Himeji Operations–Semiconductor plant in Hyogo ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany reckons that its new infrared (IRED) Oslon black SFH 4716S is one of the most powerful IREDs on the market, with an optical output of 1030mW. With a beam angle of 150°, it provides ...
Microsoft’s stock took a beating over the weekend after a pair of research firms said PC shipments in the first quarter were down as much as 14 percent from the year before. As of 4pm on Thursday, shares of Microsoft were down ...
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GT Advanced Technologies has appointed Linda Reinhard as vice president, new business development and product management for the company's sapphire, DSS and HiCz products. Reinhard will report to Dan Squiller, GT's chief operating ...
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Intematix Corporation has been awarded a new U.S. patent. Patent 8,376,580 for LED based lightingsSystems is related to the firm's remote phosphor technology. This patent marks the 21st remote phosphor patent the company has received. ...