Driven by strong growth in its outdoor & action sports portfolio and its direct-to-consumer business, revenues at apparel marketer – VF Corp rose 7 percent from a year earlier quarter to $3.5 billion in the third fiscal quarter ending ...
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US based apparel marketer – Gap Inc said its Board of Directors have approved a new $500 million share repurchase authorization for its common stock. The new $500 million stock repurchase program follows its previous $1 billion ...
Smart meter is fundamentally equipped in smart grid. The advancing smart grid construction in China spurred the constant growth of smart meter demand. By the end of 2013, 370 million smart meters had been accumulatively installed in China, ...
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Taiwan-based Teco Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd., a supplier of motors and household appliances, expects to continue gaining steam from its wind turbine business, as its new factory of such products in Hunan Province, central China, will ...
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Eight years after acquiring US rival, Reebok, seems like German sports gear marketer – Adidas has put Reebok on the block. According to WSJ, funds affiliated to the Abu Dhabi Government and a Hong Kong based private-equity investor ...
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Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced its production results for the first quarter ended September 30, 2014 of the financial year 2014-15, achieving a new quarterly record from its Western Australian iron ore operations with an iron ...
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JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has collaborated with UK-based Amada (a manufacturer of machine tools for metal fabrication) to develop a new direct diode laser (DDL) that provides up to 2kW of output power. The DDL has been integrated into a new ...
Ultimate Packaging, a printed flexible packaging producer for the food industry, has installed an HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press. The company's traditional flexo-print business along with its expanding digital business manufactures about ...
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To keep up with brisk growth, Rechi Precision Co., Ltd., world's fourth-biggest supplier of compressors for air conditioners by shipment, has stepped up output expansion across Taiwan and China. Recently its board approved an ...
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Benefiting from Taiwan's thriving fastener industry, which could finish this year with export value exceeding US$4 billion, Chun Zu Machinery Industry Co., Ltd., a leading Taiwanese supplier, aims for annual revenue of NT$1 billion ...
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DOE's Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC) has released the results of a voluntary web-based inventory survey of public street and area lighting across the U.S., conducted during the latter half of 2013 and intended to ...
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The Indian paint industry is likely to surge from the current level of about Rs. 40,600 crore to about Rs. 62,000 crore by 2016 witnessing double-digit compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 20 percent, according to The Associated ...
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Sustainability has been a concept which regional and national trade associations in Europe has been encouraging coatings producers and their suppliers to adopt to ensure that the coatings sector move in a more environmentally friendly ...
Tags: Marine coatings, coatings
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Honeywell have announced they are working together to deepen facility sustainability by integrating USGBC’s new LEED Dynamic Plaque, a near-real-time monitoring tool with integrated building ...
In the third quarter of the current year, the crude steel production of Russian steelmaker MMK Group totaled 3.381 million mt, down 0.3 percent compared to the second quarter of the year, while its crude steel output in the first nine ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Crude Steel Output