It is learned that Brazil's Vale and China's Baosteel agreed to suspend their joint venture mill at Brazil due to the global crisis. In the company note of Vale said the global economic crisis affected steel supply chain very badly, so the ...
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In lean economic times, organizations look for new ways to streamline operations, improve productivity, and gain a competitive edge. Typically, the first thing they might look at is the price of goods, materials, and supplies used. They ...
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MRC Global Inc. (NYSE: MRC) announced today that BP Products North America, Inc. has awarded MRC Global a contract for maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) goods and services and the supply of carbon and stainless steel pipe, valves and ...
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Toyota vice president Mitsuhisa Kato has confessed the brand had pursued volume to the detriment of quality, but insisted a fresh Toyota New Global Architecture Plan (TNGA) will fix those issues while saving up to 30 per cent in production ...
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The Australasian Production and Inventory Control Society Ltd (apicsAU) will collaborate with LEI Group (part of the Leading Edge Group of companies) to offer online and instructor-led education and training programs to organisations and ...
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Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) national secretary Tony Sheldon said six truck crashes and six deaths in two days was evidence of the pressure on drivers to speed or skip rest breaks, to meet unrealistic deadlines. “Road ...
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Australian SME are primed and keen to invest overseas but are often restrained by difficulty in accessing finance and professional advice and support, new research from Australia’s export credit agency EFIC has found. Of over 2,000 ...
Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Tony Sheldon says the Federal Government’s review of the national Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal showed contempt for families of the 330 people killed in truck-related crashes in ...
Ventura, Calif.-based outdoor apparel retailer Patagonia Inc. has announced that beginning with the Fall 2014 season, its entire collection of down-insulated products will be made with 100-percent traceable down. Patagonia Traceable Down ...
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Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso has introduced lower-weight board for the production of pharmaceutical cartons in high-speed packaging lines. The new Tambrite board, which is 215gsm, is tested and qualified by the packaging ...
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TenCate Protective Fabrics has been chosen by the Colombian Army Aviation Air Assault Division to deliver TenCate Defender M as the fabric of choice that will be used to manufacture new, two-piece flight suits for its personnel. This ...
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AeroDef Manufacturing Summit and Exposition 2014 announces four panel discussions focused on the most critical issues facing aerospace and defense manufacturing today as part of their Executive Insights Series. AeroDef Manufacturing takes ...
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In conjunction with a presentation today at the Morgan Stanley Global Consumer Conference, General Mills reaffirmed its key financial targets for the 2014 fiscal year. The company said that for the fiscal year ending May 25, 2014, it ...
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Optitex, the leading provider of 2D and 3D CAD/CAM and virtual prototyping software solutions, announces the release of Version 12.2. In this latest version, a new nesting solution (Nest ++ Pro) deploys an improved algorithm utilizing ...
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RFMD, a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, today announced that Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has presented RFMD with ...
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