Sika has agreed to acquire LCS Optiroc Pte Ltd. in Singapore and LCS Optiroc SDN. BHD in Malaysia, a leading manufacturer of cementitious powder products. The business generated annual sales of CHF 24 million in the last financial year. ...
TTI, Inc., the leading global distributor of interconnect, passive, electromechanical and discrete components, has signed a distribution agreement with the PKC Group to become the first authorized distributor of their component products to ...
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The Toll Group has secured contracts with Coca-Cola Amatil(CCA)to provide a range of transportation services across Australia worth$380 million over five years. The initial five-year contract involves route distribution,bulk distribution ...
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IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a $15 million loan to dairy company Parag Milk Foods for expanding its milk processing facilities, to enhance dairy farm productivity and boost incomes in rural India. With IFC's ...
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The supply chain is getting greener and discussions about sustainability are cropping up in more calls and conferences than ever before. What this means for you is that the "green-ness" of your supply chain will soon be a deciding factor ...
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Tarkett has announced a price increase across the Johnsonite commercial product portfolio. The system of solutions includes VCT, vinyl sheet and tile, linoleum, rubber sheet and tile, LVT, stairwell management, and accessories. The ...
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FCI, a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect systems, today announced that it has strengthened the portfolio of its MezzoStak Mezzanine connectors with the addition of 80 and 90 position offerings. These new variations’ ...
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Wal-Mart has admitted some jobs will be lost from its business in India as the US retail giant plots its growth in the market alone. A report in India's Financial Express claimed Wal-Mart was letting go of 100-150 "senior- to mid-level ...
Tesco Plc., the world’s third-largest retailer, has applied to the Indian Government for developing a multi-brand retail business in India. The company has filed its application with the Department of Industrial Policy and ...
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The medical devices industry, already one of the most heavily regulated industries in the U.S., is confronting yet another complex rule – Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires SEC-listed companies to disclose the use of ...
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Over the next few years manufacturers producing medical devices or monitoring and control instrumentation will need to bring their products into compliance with the EU RoHS directive, as they are in Category 8 or Category 9 respectively, of ...
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This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
A true Tier-1 WCS must be equipped to handle 2D barcode and RFID data for individual unique SKU track and trace requirements.Multi-channel order fulfillment, referred to in the logistics industry as omni-channel fulfillment, is increasingly ...
Necessity is the mother of invention, which is as true for package development professionals as for garage tinkerers. We spoke recently with Aron James Clarkson, designer-inventor and CEO of StarOne Group, who says he's in business to ...
Spurred by demand from Chinese TV makers, LED TV penetration rates have reached 95% in 2013, according to LEDinside (a subsidiary of TrendForce). The market research firm estimates that LEDs will completely replace cold-cathode ...
Tags: LED market, LED TV, Electrical, Electronics