General Mills has reported that its net earnings declined 16.3% to $459.3m for the first quarter of fiscal 2014, compared with $548.9m for the same period in 2013, as special items boosted its year-ago results. Net sales, for the quarter ...
Tags: General Mills, Agriculture, Food
China’s electricity consumption rose 13.7 percent year on year in August, its fastest growth since March 2012, the National Energy Administration said yesterday. The figure also marked the fourth straight month power use had risen, ...
Tags: electricity consumption, Energy
US-based Quanterix has launched multiplexed single molecule immunoassay technology for improving diagnosis and potential treatment of complex diseases. The multiplexed single molecule immunoassays study, which was partly funded by the ...
A commercial reverse osmosis (RO) membrane was modified by adsorption of copper hydroxide particles, to improve the antibacterial and anti-adhesion properties of the membrane. Biofouling of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes used in water ...
Tags: Ro Membranes, Copper Hydroxide
FAW-GM holds a rolling-out ceremony for high-level light truck Jiefang F330 in Beijing. Vice president of FAW-GM Light Duty Commercial Vehicle Jiang Jun says F330 Subao is a high-level light truck jointly created by FAW and GM by ...
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The Asian naphtha market may firm going into the last two months of this year on curtailed arbitrage flows which will likely tighten supply balances and year-end demand mopping up excess naphtha supply from the higher arbitrage arrivals in ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Valve, the company behind Steam, the popular PC games platform, will unveil more details about its proposed Linux-based "Steam box" console next week. The news was revealed by founder Gabe Newell at LinuxCon 2013 this week in a keynote ...
Tags: Steam Box, Industrial Equipment, Components
Tradition Sourcing, provider of premium private label golf apparel and accessories to some of the most recognized golf courses and PGA Tour events in the United States, announced the release of its 2014 line, offering a complete collection ...
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SeaChange Pharmaceuticals has introduced its similarity ensemble approach (SEA) software called SEAware for predictive matching of drugs with disease and toxicity targets. SEAware provides analysis and visualization tools for prediction ...
Drummond Ltd., one of the largest coal producers in Colombia, partially restarted operations Saturday night after the government stepped in to resolve a strike that has stifled the country's coal exports. Edgar Munoz, a spokesman for the ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In future, it will be much easier to produce some active pharmaceutical substances and chemical compounds than was the case to date. An international team working with chemists from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in ...
Tags: Textile Fabric, Chemical Process
BEIJING-Signs of more appetite in China for steel and other materials and equipment used in construction add to evidence of an economic rebound, but one driven by a return to ramped-up spending on infrastructure and heavy industry the ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China's business activity surged to a 17-month high in August, providing fresh evidence that the protracted economic slowdown in China may be bottoming out. Industrial production gained 10.4 percent from a year earlier, picking up from ...
Tags: Steel Leads, Steel Sector
In the presence of numerous prominent Russian politicians and businesspeople Messe Düsseldorf celebrated its 50-year presence on the Russian market yesterday (Wednesday). In 1963 it was the first foreign trade fair company to venture ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
FTR's Trucking Conditions Index (TCI) for July jumped 30 percent from June, a healthy sign, but not one that points to any major positive changes on the horizon. "The jump reflects the indexes forward look at an expected pricing uptick ...
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