RTA specialist Sauder Woodworking has expanded its showroom at 220 Elm here by 5,500 square feet in time for the April 20-25 High Point Market. The expansion gives Sauder and sister company Progressive Furniture nearly 30,000 square feet, ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
With eye-catching graphics and an ergonomic design, ITW Professional Brands has launched new packaging for its Dymon brand aerosol products. The new "bullet can" packaging makes the products easier to grip and spray, minimizing stress on ...
Derby-based ethnic food manufacturer S&A Foods plans to make up to 70 of its 500 staff redundant as it restructures its chilled ready meals business. Perween Warsi's firm S&A Foods will be making 70 of its 500 staff redundant The ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
LesserEvil Healthy Brands, a US-based snack food manufacturer, has introduced Chia Pop in about 80 Wegmans stores across the northeast. Chia Pop is made with milled Salba Chia and offers nutrients including protein, fiber, minerals, ...
Tags: Lesserevil, Chia Pop, Wegmans Stores
PE INTERNATIONAL, global sustainability software and services firm, announced it has been selected by Kimberly-Clark to help manage their corporate-wide sustainability initiatives. With PE INTERNATIONAL, Kimberly-Clark is upgrading its ...
Post Holdings, a US-based producer of ready-to-eat cereal products, has announced its decision to close its manufacturing plant in Modesto, California. The company noted that it held discussions with the union representing hourly ...
US-based chemical company FMC has acquired the pectin-related intellectual property developed by Vigido, a subsidiary of UniPektin Ingredients. Vigido is the former exclusive marketer of the pectin products of Pectine Italia, a company ...
Tags: FMC, Pectin Intellectual Property, Vigido
US-based ConAgra Foods has reported that its net earnings declined by 57.2% to $120m for the third quarter of 2013, compared with $280.1m in the same quarter in 2012 due to costs related to its acquisition of Ralcorp, although the move ...
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Continental Powertrain Division has started construction of new powertrain parts manufacturing plant in Kaluga, Russia. The company will invest about EUR20m in the land, buildings, plant and equipment for the facility, which will ...
Tags: Continental, Production Plant, Auto Parts
Global packaging company MeadWestvaco (MWV) is all set to purchase wood that is certified under the American Tree Farm System (ATFS), in a bid to demonstrate its commitment to sustainable forest management. According to MWV, ATFS ...
Tags: Certified Wood, packaging company, wood
Long-term quality assurance and availability of BCF spinning systems are the purpose of a close development cooperation between Trützschler Switzerland AG and Gebr. Bräm AG, Dietikon, Switzerland. The technologically superior ...
Tags: Textile
IBM has opened a European-based IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Data Centre in Germany, which it is claimed will help enterprises in implementing social business technology. The new centre will serve the requirements of customers in ...
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics says it expect to earn an operating profit of 8.7 trillion won ($7.4 bn) in the first quarter of 2013, up 52.9 per cent from a year earlier. Samsung, the world's largest technology firm by revenue, was ...
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The downturn in German construction activity deepened at the end of the first quarter of the current year, driven largely by a sharp and accelerated decrease in home building. Markit's Germany Construction Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) ...
Tags: Mineral, German construction
India's state-owned trader MSTC Ltd has announced that on April 9 it will carry out an advance e-auction for the sale of 224,000 mt of iron ore that state-owned miner NMDC will produce at its Donimalai mine in the southern state of ...