As LED lighting is expected to boom, firms have been looking into adopting automated production. Nan Ya Photonics, a Taiwan-based joint venture between LED chipmaker Epistar and the Formosa Plastics Group, announced at the beginning of 2012 ...
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Are you a disgruntled Netflix subscriber who used to get both discs and streaming as part of one low-cost plan? Well, here at CES we expect to learn more about a new hybrid disc/streaming service called Redbox Instant that promises to ...
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UK meat packer Hilton Foods Group said today (10 January) that it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Woolworths Ltd, Australia's largest supermarket. The deal establishes a new company, Woolworths Meat Co, in which Hilton ...
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Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) plans to invest about $36.3m to $45.4m in the next three years to maintain and upgrade the products developed during the joint venture (JV) with US-based Navistar in India. The plan followed the agreement made in ...
The Australian sharemarket closed higher to end a three day run of losses and defy market falls in the US and Europe. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 17.9 points, or 0.38 per cent, higher at 4708.1, while the ...
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Matheson of Basking Ridge, NJ, USA, a subsidiary of Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC), says that William J. Kroll has transferred to the role of executive chairman of the board of directors, effective 2 January 2013. Kroll was ...
Semi-conductors supplier ST-Ericsson last night unveiled a mobile device chipset that it says will add five hours to the battery life of smartphones once adopted by industry. The Swiss based company, which supplies chipsets and ...
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The sharemarket ended a three-day losing streak yesterday as the latest earnings results from US aluminium giant Alcoa reassured investors in the resources-heavy domestic bourse, with high-yield and defensive sectors of the market well bid. ...
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Norway's Statoil and its partners are going ahead with the development of the major Aasta Hansteen natural gas field project in the Norwegian Sea, as well as the planned Polarled pipeline linking it to shore, at a combined cost of NOK57 ...
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Aramco Far East (Beijing) Business Services, or Aramco Asia, has started offering polyolefins produced by Fujian Refining and Petrochemical in China effective January 1, its parent Saudi Aramco said late Monday. Aramco Asia will ...
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Woodside Petroleum's Browse LNG project could end up being developed in a lower-cost environment after 2014, now that the joint venture partners are aligned for the first time, analysts at the Hong Kong office of Bernstein Research said in ...
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Montreal-based branded basic apparel manufacturer Gildan Activewear Inc. has finalized the acquisition of CanAm Yarns LLC (CanAm) — its 50-percent-owned yarn-spinning joint venture (JV) with Frontier Spinning Mills Inc., Sanford, N.C. ...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based TMS International Corp. the parent company of Tube City IMS Corporation, a leading provider of outsourced industrial services to steel mills globally,mill services co announced Monday that it has secured new ...
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The Lenovo Environment Affairs and Specifications Communication Conference 2012, organized by Lenovo Group and sponsored by SGS, was successfully held in Shanghai and Shenzhen in Oct 2012. Over 500 representatives from Lenovo suppliers ...
Kobe Steel,Ltd.and Jiangsu ALCHA Aluminium Co Ltd have decided to terminate their letter of intent to form a joint venture to produce aluminum coil and sheet. In December 2011,Kobe Steel and China's ALCHA,a major producer of aluminum ...
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