In the presence of Flemish Minister Ingrid Lieten and Limburg Governor Herman Reynders,EpiGaN nv of Hasselt,Belgium has officially opened its new production site in Research Campus Hasselt(RCH)as the location for volume production of its ...
Designers and youth organisations are being invited to join forces to design, build and launch new digital products and services that help young people secure the opportunities they deserve in a new challenge, launched today by ...
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How many job applicants does it take to change a lightbulb? As we've recently found out from a Hays employment survey, only the successful ones. The firm's annual global skills shortage list, which investigates those key areas employers are ...
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The Bosch Power Tools Division can look back on 2011 as a successful year of business: sales increased by more than seven percent to 3.8 billion euros. The division generated 90 percent of its sales outside of Germany. “We have again ...
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WILLAMINA — The international markets didn't register a ripple, but on April 9, Arnie Swan drove 25 minutes from his home and reported to work at Boise Cascade's veneer plant. He's a new hire, not a worker called back from one of the ...
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Orders for U. S. Durable goods excluding transportation equipment probably rose in March, indicating manufacturing continues to contribute to growth, economists said before a government report today. Bookings for goods meant to last at ...
In April, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index was 56.1 percent, 1.9 percentage points lower than that in the previous month, still staying above the threshold, which indicated that the non-manufacturing economy has maintained a ...
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Corporate Express (Staples) has launched its second Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which details how the company plans to contribute towards indigenous reconciliation. "The launch of our indigenous employment strategy is a key ...
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Stronger than expected job creation and the beginning of a construction industry recovery means gains in real construction spending will materialize this year—after seven years of consecutive declines. According to the new forecast ...
In April, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 53.3 percent, up by 0.2 percentage point month-on-month, continuing to stay above the threshold, while 2.7 percentage points lower than the mean value of the same period in ...
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Find the Beauty and Reshape the Value of "Made-in-China" ---Record of the 2012 Annual Selection Conference of “The Beauty of Made-in-China” On the morning of April 22, 2012, the 2012 annual selection conference of “The ...
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The US plastics industry has an “extremely good chance” to recover to production levels from before the global recession by the end of this year, barring a Eurozone meltdown or other unforeseen economic shocks, a senior official ...
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The combined Canadian and U. S. Lumber industries shrunk by about 30 percent as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis that, in 2008, sparked the U. S. 's worst recession since the Great Depression, according to a summary in the 2012 ...
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The executive board of The Modern Kitchen Working Group (AMK – Arbeitsgemeinschaft die Moderne Küche), is reckoning with the possibility of a further 2% to 3% growth in turnover in 2012 across the whole of the kitchen industry, ...
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Following is the text of U. S. Non-manufacturing conditions from the Institute for Supply Management. Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector grew in March for the 27th consecutive month, say the nation’s purchasing and ...
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