Alstom has been awarded a contract worth more than $ 90 million for Hydro-Quebec's La Romaine 3 power house, which is one of four new power houses that make up the 1550MW La Romaine hydroelectric complex located north of the municipality of ...
Tags: Turbine, Consumer Electronics
Global insurance and reinsurance firm XL Group has appointed Mark McConico as vice president and underwriting manager of its US risk management group in Los Angeles. In addition, the company promoted Theresa Schlageter to senior vice ...
Tags: XL Group, Underwriting Manager
Transportation, e-commerce and business services provider FedEx has announced the addition of a new ‘cold shipping’ packaging option to its temperature controlled packaging (TCP) portfolio. The new packaging option, which will ...
Tags: Temperature Controlled Packaging, Healthcare Industry, FedEx
A new easy-to-carry water purifier that could give Marines and first-responders access to clean water wherever they go has successfully completed its first operational test. Funded by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) and tested this ...
Tags: Water Purifier, Processing Machinery, Industrial Equipment
The Federal Government of Nigeria has initiated the process to set up a polypropylene and polyethylene plant in the Koko Free Trade Zone (FTZ) by appointing a team for preliminary site inspection. This was disclosed by the Delta state ...
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Italian hollow glass processing machines continue to enjoy enormous international popularity, with especially positive results in 2012, which will likely be repeated in 2013. Bottles and glass tableware are doing well, with a few ...
Tags: Hollow Glass, Glass, Construction
Cree develops unique parking garage SSL products with a reflector and multiple lenses, while Acuity's Peerless brand introduces a new linear round LED fixture and GE Lighting goes away from a light guide for an entry-level planar fixture. ...
Tags: LED, GE lighting
Menasha Packaging has announced that the company’s Yukon Plant in Ruffs Dale, Pennsylvania, a part of its Western Pennsylvania Complex, has received certifications from two global product safety and quality standardization programs. ...
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created a robot with six curved legs that can do a hand-stand, jump over gaps and climb over rocks. The robot could one day be used by search-and-rescue teams or by the military in ...
Tags: robot, Electrical, Electronics
US-based Software firm SignalDemand has announced that ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston has selected its EnterpriseOptimizersoftware solution to provide additional insight on ways to maximize output and visibility of its potato supply and ...
Tags: Conagra Foods, Supply Optimization
Amerigen Pharmaceuticals, a group of companies engaged in all phases of the generic pharmaceutical business, has collaborated with Forest Laboratories to develop a number of specialty generic products. The collaboration will leverage ...
Tags: Amerigen Partners, Generic Product
Researchers in Silicon Valley have managed to observe electrical switching that is thousands of times faster than transistors used in today's computer chips. Their work could lead to a better understanding of how transistors work at the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Foster Wheeler AG announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a project management and consultancy (PMC) services contract by the Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Limited Liability ...
Tags: Petrochemical Plant, Foster Bags
In the second quarter of 2013, we generated a profit of $201 million compared to profit of $186 million for the second quarter of 2012. The increase was primarily due to lower finance costs in the second quarter of 2013. For the six ...
Tags: Profits, NOVA Chemicals
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), is expanding its family of MultiSwitch STeP8 dual single-pole, seven throw (SP7T/SP7T) ...