HIGH POINT -- New factory orders in July were 4% above July 2011, and are up 4% year-to-date, according to the latest Smith Leonard survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors. The July increase came on the heels of ...
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In the lush mountains of Nagano, Japan, four Team Gira runners solemnly train near the storied Togakushi Shrine. Concealed by the surrounding forest's mystical 900-year-old cedar trees, they are a tonal flash—a modern incarnation of ...
Tags: Convertible jackets, detachable sleeves, Durable Water Repellent
HIGH POINT -- Panama Jack, the brand built on beach living, will introduce three new collections of outdoor furniture and a new collection of indoor furniture at an expanded showroom at the High Point Market Oct. 13-18. Panama Jack's ...
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BPF Director-General Peter Davis speaking yesterday at the Global Polymer Innovation Expo (GPIE) in Columbus, Ohio said the world has plentiful oil and gas reserves and global polyolefins capacity should be sufficient to meet demand growth ...
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The Skygarden Pendant by Flos was designed by Marcel Wanders.With a skeleton of die cast aluminum,the FLOS Skygarden Pendant is a solid and practical ceiling lamp. The outer most shell of the Skygarden Pendant is molded plaster ...
UK food ingredients group Tate & Lyle plc has said its first-half profits remained flat year-on-year, with growth expected to pick up in the second half. "Overall, we expect to report adjusted operating profit for the group for the first ...
Tags: food, bulk ingredients, liquid sweeteners, ethanol, corn crops
Women with plus-size figures made a start two years ago – now it is time for men with large standard clothing sizes to have extensive measurements taken so the data can be scientifically evaluated in the framework of a research ...
Tags: Germany, Apparel, Hohenstein Institute
Glass is strong enough for so much: Windshields, buildings and many other things that need to handle high stress without breaking. But scientists who look at the structure of glass strictly by the numbers believe some of the latest methods ...
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A longtime user of Infor's ERP(enterprise resource planning)software says in a federal lawsuit that Infor is unjustly demanding a substantial sum of money after discovering that third-party companies have been accessing the software. ...
Tags: Infor, ERP software, Micromatic, federal lawsuit
The winning design was unveiled Friday during Homecoming week in the office of Washington State University(WSU)President Elson S.Floyd.Students from the Department of Apparel,Merchandising,Design and Textiles(AMDT),department faculty chair ...
Tags: AMDT, WSU, Cougar Nation, Tie
WOODWORKING is a tricky skill to master. Students learn to measure carefully before they reach for a saw, and to cut as true to the design as hand and eye allow. But, even so, precise cutting is a painstaking job, full of pitfalls and ...
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LEDs - or Light-Emitting Diodes – are semiconductors that generate narrow-spectrum light when electrically biased in the forward direction of the p-n junction. This effect is a form of electroluminescence. A single LED is often a ...
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Since being founded in 1992 by brothers Mazen and Rawad Saad,Sound on Stage has grown to become one of the Middle East's leading event production companies.This year the company needed to add a new audio system to its inventory and,after ...
Tags: Sound on Stage, audio system, Dubai, Lebanon
Global PV component manufacturing industry has changed dramatically recently years and decline in profitability is the key character. Highest gross profit margin of the component manufacturer is difficult to achieve 10%. Expert of the ...
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Many signs suggest that Oracle is about to introduce a next-generation version of the Exadata database machine,the first and apparently most successful of its"engineered systems"that combine Oracle software with servers,networking and ...
Tags: Oracle, Exadata database machine, Larry Ellison, software