While the birth of Dalton, Georgia, as the capital of the carpet industry is primarily owed to a woman, today's carpet manufacturers are typically led by men. One Dalton company is bucking that trend. B Carpet has been granted official ...
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The PPG Industries Foundation has donated $15,000 to Stark State College for its Barberton, Ohio, Satellite Center. A $10,000 grant this year and a $5,000 donation in 2012 were made on behalf of PPG Industries’ optical and specialty ...
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Universal Technical Institute (UTI) has formalized an agreement with General Motors Co. (GM) to develop a 12-week elective training program for UTI students. The program will first be available at UTI's Avondale campus. UTI provides ...
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According to the Government of British Columbia, there will be an estimated one million job openings in the province over the next decade, with opportunities in liquefied natural gas, mining and mineral exploration, and shipbuilding. Of ...
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The B.C. Trucking Association (BCTA) has teamed up with the Kamloops/Thompson School District to help promote careers in the trucking industry to young people and to develop their skills for a career in trucking. The partnership will ...
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The Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association (APTA) says it is working on a project that will help the industry deal with pressing issues such as the driver shortage, training and driver retention. "We are very pleased to move forward with ...
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R&D/Leverage, recently recognized as the first U.S. mold maker and Structural Brand Development Company to be certified "Made in the USA," has now launched Support Plastics USA, www.supportplasticsusa.com, a new portal site designed to ...
R-M, the premium automotive refinish brand, opened the new International Refinish Competence Center (RCC) in Clermont, France. It is now one of the most modern training facilities in Europe. With an investment of approx. € 2.5 million, ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The PPG Industries Foundation has donated $15,000 to the Air Force Museum Foundation for construction of a fourth major building at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, ...
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Computing is in the midst of a flexible working trial. Over the next couple of months we'll be testing various virtual desktop solutions, IP phones, multi-person video conferencing, unified communications toolkits, and also lots of ...
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Dr Sivalingam (Siva) Sivananthan, CEO & founder (in 1998) of EPIR Technologies Inc in Bolingbrook (a suburb of Chicago), IL, USA (which develops infrared sensor, biosensor and solar photovoltaic products), was honored at a White House ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, solar photovoltaic products, infrared sensor
Demand for SAS-based higher education courses is so high that only a small percentage of prospective students who apply for qualifications in the subject at university actually get a place at an institution, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight has told ...
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If you have plans on attending this year's Dwell on Design in Los Angeles, Calif., be sure to sign up for this inspirational talk featuring the New Zealand lighting designer?David Trubridge. Source The Sola Pendant Trubridge's talk ...
SAP is at work on a new product called Sentinel that is supposed to be "nothing less than the Amazon for Stocks and the Facebook for Investors," according to a job posting associated with the project. "We take our metaphors seriously," ...
Tags: Stocks, Computer Products, SAP
MHI Young Professionals Network and the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA) have partnered for this year's Emerging Leaders Conference, August 1, in Chicago, IL. This year's conference will take place over one day ...