Continued rainfall in the east-central Plains and northwestern Corn Belt in the U.S. is just one of several moisture extremes making weather headlines as the week begins. The rain is falling in spots where it's badly needed, and it's ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
When the UK government's plans to introduce aversion packaging on cigarettes began its fight with Big Tobacco at the beginning of June, a battle broke out in Australia too. It took two weeks for the Australian government to quash it. By ...
Bosch eBike Systems is setting up a regional business unit in Suzhou, China with technical and commercial experts to help Asia's bicycle manufacturers prepare for growing global demand for ped-elec bikes, which the company began promoting ...
Tags: Ebike, Sporting Goods
June 29th, 2014, Chengdu - Volvo Trucks New FH/FM Product Experience visited Chengdu after the trips of Beijing and Shanghai. At the same time, the 2014 Volvo Trucks Fuelwatch Competition West China Semi-final also concluded in Chengdu ...
SEW-Eurodrive's Victorian sales and product manager, Darren Klonowski, has been responding to the same enquiry over and over this year: "Food and beverage manufacturers are finding it beneficial to source a comprehensive drive service ...
Phase two of Mondelez Food Innovation Centre commences at Ringwood Global food manufacturing giant Mondelēz International has begun construction on stage two of the Food Innovation Centre at Ringwood, Victoria, continuing the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
ACCC calls to 'reinvigorate' Australia's competition policy The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has provided a submission to the Harper Review of competition policy, calling for a 'reinvigoration of Australia's ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The barcode was invented at Westinghouse in 1930 by John Kermode, Douglas Young and Harry Sparkes. The first patent for a barcode, US Patent #2,612,994, was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on 7 October, 1952. The ...
Contrary to PV manufacturers’ high utilization rates spurred by UK and Japan market demands in first quarter of 2014, pricing in the PV industry is likely to drop in the following quarter, according to EnergyTrend, a subsidiary of ...
Tags: Solar Makers, PV Industry
PepsiCo has established Baking Category Innovation Center in Nuevo Leon, Mexico to expand the company’s research and development arm. The new center in Apodaca is a part of PepsiCo's five-year plan to invest $5bn to strengthen its ...
Tags: PepsiCo, Baking Category
German automobile manufacturer BMW has recalled 2930 vehicles in Australia to fix a problem in turbocharged six cylinder models. The recall affects BMW's eight models including 35i versions of the X3 and X5 SUVs, as well as the 1, 3, 5, ...
Tags: BMW, cylinder models
Global 2014/15 cotton mill use is forecast at 112.3 million bales, 2 percent above the previous season. Mill use in China is expected to rebound in 2014/15 to 37.0 million bales—up from an estimated 35.5 million bales this season and ...
Tags: Cotton, World cotton trade
Global 2014/15 cotton production is projected to decline 2 percent from a year ago to 115.9 million bales; lower expected crops in several major cotton-producing countries more than offset increases in the United States, Brazil, and Turkey. ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton production
Platts Australian alumina assessment closed the week at $310.50/mt FOB, decreasing $1.50/mt from Thursday, weighed by sluggish demand, the higher cost of credit in China, and concerns relating to counter-party risk. The assessment was down ...
Tags: Alumina, Qingdao port
UK-based aerospace, defense and security technology provider QinetiQ Group plc has acquired Redfern Integrated Optics Inc (RIO) of Santa Clara, CA, USA. Founded in 2000 in Australia before moving to San Francisco, CA, USA in 2003, RIO is ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics