Ashland Inc. recently celebrated the grand opening of its new gelcoats production facility in the Chemical Industry Park of Changzhou Yangtze Riverside Economic Development Zone. This $60 million dollar facility, which is Ashland's most ...
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Furi Electronics will be holding a shareholders’ meeting on Sept. 2 to decide on the company’s private investments to acquire 92.8% of MR LED Photoelectricity Co. stock shares. “If all goes well, the MR ...
Italian dairy firm Parmalat is in exclusive negotiations to acquire a stake in Brazil dairy group Lacteos do Brasil (LBR) for an undisclosed amount. LBR is a manufacturer of a wide range of dairy products including fresh milk, milk ...
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Canada-based Maple Leaf Foods has entered into an agreement to sell Rothsay, its rendering and biodiesel business, to Darling International of Irving, Texas, for C645m ($614.11m). This move is a part of the Maple Leaf Foods' plan to focus ...
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In conjunction with its recent Global Partner Week event, Visual 2000 International Inc has released major new versions of its Visual PLM.net (V5) and Visual ERP.net (V8) fashion software. Held earlier this month, the annual business ...
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Tanzania’s MeTL Group is planning to set up a cotton ginnery in the Southern African country of Zambia to provide a ready market for small-scale cotton growers in the region. The MeTL Group intends to set up a ginnery with a ...
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Motorola Solutions, a leading provider of communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, has announced the results of a research study that details shifts in the plans of warehouse professionals across several ...
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Rapid 7 this week unveiled a new set of tools designed to help businesses better judge the overall effectiveness of existing security controls and the risk associated with users across the organization. The announcement came during ...
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The introduction of Rackspace's hosted Dedicated VMware vCenter Server will allow IT staff to control their VMware environments from a data center run by the vendor. As enterprises move IT infrastructure out of their own data centers, ...
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Lloyds Banking Group is looking for 30 IT apprentices to take up specialist roles that it says cannot be filled by graduates. The group, which is the parent company of high street bank Lloyds TSB, is looking for school leavers with a ...
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Notebook ODMs have recently started integrating their R&D resources from different departments and are using their idle capacity to develop tablets, smartphones or wearable devices, according to sources from the upstream supply chain. ...
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An initiative to help manufacturers reduce security risks to control systems in response to growing cyber-security threats is being introduced by Rockwell Automation. The initiative will help automation and IT professionals more effectively ...
Coca-Cola's franchise bottling partner Moon Beverages has opened a new bottling plant at Greater Noida in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which involved an investment of INR1400m ($22m). The plant, which brings to total 57 ...
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The textile sector of state of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil is expected to attract 40 new industries as well as create 2,400 new jobs as various sectors in the state signed an agreement for the extension of tax incentives until December 31, ...
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With support from the Province of Ontario, Ryerson University's Centre for Urban Energy will build a smart grid laboratory, which will serve as a hub for researchers and will provide a collaborative facility for testing and demonstrating ...
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