For the full year of 2014, sales at global specialty chemical company, Eastman Chemical grew by just 2 per cent over 2013 to $9.5 billion. Operating earnings for 2014 amounted to $1.6 billion, a slight increase compared with 2013, while ...
Tags: end-market demand, hygiene, Apparel
US based apparel marketer Gap Inc said it will close its Piperlime brand, including the online platform and the only store in New York, by the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2015. The Piperlime brand is by far the smallest of the ...
Packaging solutions provider Glenroy has agreed to acquire the pouch converting operations of PF Flexibles, formerly known as Pouch Converting Technologies. Based in Hartford, Wisconsin, PF Flexibles is a contract manufacturer of ...
Tags: liquids, military applications, chemicals, Agriculture
Sympatex Technologies, one of the leading global suppliers of high tech functional materials in clothing, footwear, accessories, protective workwear, and technical applications, will highlight its new partnership with Lib Tech, an American ...
Tags: Sympatex Technologies, clothing, footwear, Textile
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved continuation of mandatory packaging of foodgrains and sugar in jute material to the minimum extent of 90 percent and 20 percent ...
Tags: foodgrains, sugar, Textile
LG Chem exhibited a 320x320mm OLED lighting panel at the Lighting Japan 2015 taking place during January 14-16, with the panel having the highest lumen-price ratio of 5lm/US$ among all similar products at the show, according to Digitimes ...
Two series of leaded MLCCs, which are halogen-free according to IEC 61249-2-21, have been Two series of leaded MLCCs. The FG series consists of commercial-grade devices, while the FA series consists of automotive-grade devices. To support ...
The Capita Super Corporation, the Seattle-based maker of snowboards and skateboards, announced that it is constructing The Mothership, describing it as "the most progressive snowboard production facility in the world." Located on 7 acres ...
Tags: tooling, milling, printing, pressing, Sporting Goods
Gap Inc. has decided to close its Piperlime brand, including the online platform and single store in New York, by the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2015. The company is committed to executing against its long-term strategy of ...
Ferrari unveiled the F12berlinetta which pays homage to the Ecurie Francorchamps team at the 2015 Dream Cars Show in Brussels. The car is a part of Maranello's Tailor Made bespoke personalization program. It features V12 sports ...
Tags: 3D design, triple-layer cross-stripe, Auto
Chairman Jimmy Chu of the Fair Friend Ent. Group (FFG) announced that his company will enter into alliance with Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC) to develop and manufacture composite materials for aircrafts. FFG, Taiwan's ...
Tags: manufacture composite materials, aircrafts, Manufacturing
Asia-Pacific is home to the second largest number of public companies that rank top among their industry peers in terms of sustainability performance, a new annual report said. The Sustainability Yearbook 2015, published by RobecoSAM, ...
Tags: gold medals, Electrical
Global pricing is a frequent discussion topic with many customers who have global operations, and even with some who are confined to only one region of the world but are hunting for the lowest component acquisition cost in the world. The ...
Tags: raw materials, engineer selects, Electrical
McGill University in Canada claims to have created the first electrically injected rolled-up semiconductor tube laser [M. H. T. Dastjerdi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p021114, 2015]. Although rolled-up heterostructure lasers have been ...
Tags: optical pumping, tube lasers, Electrical