Indian government policies are spurring a nationwide LED streetlight upgrade, but parts of Mangalore, Karnataka remain in the dark leading to higher crime rates, as disputes between government organizations over what lighting to install in ...
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Today at the IES Street & Area Lighting Conference, North America’s largest conference dedicated to improving the outdoor lighting business of electric utilities and energy service providers, Acuity Brands, through its subsidiary ...
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GE announced Current, powered by GE, a first-of-its kind energy company that integrates GE’s LED, Solar, Energy Storage and Electric Vehicle businesses with its industrial strength Predix platform to identify and deliver the most cost ...
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When GE sold its home appliance division in September 2014 for US $3.3 billion to Swedish company Electrolux, market rumors surfaced that the company might sell its lighting business too. The company denied intentions of selling its century ...
Tags: GELED, lighting, business strategy, market trends
China’s exports to 70 countries under its “One Belt, One Road” strategy was up 1.5% to US$ 372 billion from January to June 2015, according to China’s custom data. The country’s imports declined 18.8% to US$ ...
Tags: Vietnamese lighting products market, ASEAN lighting market
Johnson Health Tech, the parent of Matrix, Vision, and Horizon, has acquired Stak Fitness, a commercial fitness equipment distributor with a strong foothold in Canada. “Stak Fitness produces tremendous value for its customers. The ...
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When corn is cheap, hogs get plentiful. The annual Pork Powerhouses ranking of the 25 largest producers in the U.S. shows a gain of 128,000 sows in the past year. With two new packing plants set to open in 2017, producers are gearing up to ...
Tags: corn, Pork, Smithfield Foods
Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan has developed a blue-violet semiconductor laser with light output power of 4.5W (continuous wave). Even at 60oC (the maximum operating temperature for lasers in general), this is 1.5 times higher than the 3W ...
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Clariant, a specialty chemicals company, has announced that its healthcare packaging manufacturing facility in Belen, New Mexico, has achieved ISO 15378:2011 certification for products manufactured for healthcare applications, including ...
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Smurfit Kappa’s Shelf Smart service is revolutionising the impact of Shelf Ready Packaging (SRP) as a shopper marketing tool driving sales increases of up to eight percent for leading Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) brands, ...
Ford has issued five safety recall and one recall compliance in North America to fix defects in some of its vehicles. The company is recalling around 37,000 units of 2015 Ford F-150 vehicles due to issues with adaptive cruise control. ...
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Brazilian meat producer JBS has completed the acquisition of European poultry company Moy Park for $1.5bn from Marfrig Global foods, following an approval from the European Union. The deal, which was announced in June, required certain ...
Arla Foods Ingredients has introduced Nutrilac LowCal, a yogurt-based solution that makes it easy for dairy firms to tap into the weight management category. Nutrilac LowCal comes in two variants - with whey protein and with whey protein ...
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Wyke Farms, one of the UK’s largest independent cheese producers and milk processors, has launched newly designed branding and packaging for its entire core range of cheese. The luxurious look and feel of the newly branded Wyke ...
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Delta Products Corporation, a Delta Group company, is showcasing a complete line of industrial automation, power quality, and thermal management products and solutions that maximize efficiency and productivity for packaging machinery at ...
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