Colombian mining and energy minister Amylkar Acosta shows that Colombia is in in-depth talks with a Chinese company on building a railway leading to Pacific coastal region so as to lower costs of exporting coal to Asia. The minister says ...
Tags: Railway Construction, coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
PPG Industries reported third quarter 2013 net sales of $4 billion, up 17 percent versus the prior year. Third quarter 2013 reported net income from continuing operations was $220 million, or $1.52 per diluted share, and adjusted net ...
Tags: PPG, Construction, Decoration
With LED prices continuing to drop and supply chains actively lowering costs, Taiwanese LED epitaxial wafer and chip manufacturer Formosa Epitaxy (Forepi) chairman Frank Chien points out that changes in product design and manufacturing ...
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced today that Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, and Director of the Initiative on Value and Innovation in Health Care, Brookings Institution, will join the Board of ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use, Johnson
Company enables original equipment manufacturers, commercial and industrial customers to improve cash flow, accelerate time to market and meet energy efficiency targets globally During a webinar hosted by Flextronics, the company ...
Tags: Flextronics, LED Lighting
The manufacturer of specialist foils and packaging materials released its results today (4 October). API said that the board’s most recent guidance, provided at the time of its AGM on 11 July 2013, remains unchanged overall. ...
Tags: Packaging, specialist foils
Xicato announced an exclusive LM-79 testing program that lowers testing costs by 50% per luminaire, and reduces testing turn-around time to just 5 business days, in comparison to industry norms of approximately four weeks. This unique ...
Tags: LED Luminaire, LED Lighting
Xicato announced an exclusive LM-79 testing program that lowers testing costs by 50% per luminaire, and reduces testing turn-around time to just five business days, in comparison to industry norms of approximately four weeks. This unique ...
Tags: LED Luminaire, Lighting
Hong Kong has had enough of mainland mothers emptying the region's shelves of imported baby formula. The government there will fine people up to US$64,000 and potentially throw them in jail for up to two years if they're caught carrying too ...
Tags: Foreign Dairy, baby formula
Oerlikon Balzers will introduce a new generation of wear-protective coatings called BAL.IQ at the EMO, the world's leading metalworking trade fair to be held in Hannover, Germany. BAL.IQ significantly outperforms current coatings in many ...
Shifting Paradigms: Automation Comes to Wheel Balancing With ABB robots and a new material from 3M, Esys Automation is revolutionizing the important-but-often-ignored world of wheel balancing. In tire and wheel assembly there aren't a ...
Ideal for the hospitality industry, OSRAM SYLVANIA is offering a full portfolio of SYLVANIA ULTRA 25™ LED lamps that offer energy and cost savings and the inviting 2500K color temperature that creates a warm, relaxing atmosphere for ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Osram
US-based property/casualty insurer Mutual Benefit Group has replaced its legacy claims system with Accenture Claim Components, to enhance efficiency in handling and paying claims by automating certain claims processes and put sharper focus ...
Tags: Mutual Benefit, Claims Efficiency
The Orthopaedic Implant Company (OIC), a developer of orthopaedic implants, launched its clavicle plate solution, designed to meet the needs of virtually all fracture patterns of the clavicle. The set includes midshaft, neutral and distal ...
Nanoelectronics research centre imec of Belgium and Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq:VECO) are collaborating on a project aimed at lowering the cost of producing gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) -based power devices and LEDs. Barun ...