Turkey's largest steelmaking group Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari TAS (Erdemir) has announced its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2013. In the third quarter, the net profit of the company amounted ...
Tags: Mineral, steelmaking
Japan's core machinery orders fell more than expected in September and firms expect orders to fall further in the current quarter, showing that business investment remains the weak link in generating a sustained economic recovery. The 2.1 ...
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United Kingdom to allow Chinese companies to purchase stakes in latest $25.9b reactor project The United Kingdom recently signed a $25.9 billion deal to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in the southwestern part of England. ...
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Featuring even greater international participation and a number of innovations, CeMAT 2014 is set to reaffirm its status as the world's flagship intralogistics fair. "There is no other comparable event anywhere else in the world," said ...
Being a viable alternative to Shimano is not easy for the small Taiwanese company MicroShift. Not only is it in the prototyping stages of its own electronic drivetrain development, but it recently invested in a huge forging machine for cog ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
JDA Software Group, Inc., The Supply Chain Company, announced the release date for JDA In-Store Picking, a solution designed to enable retailers to accurately and efficiently pick e-commerce orders in a store (in-store). The solution will ...
Tags: JDA Software Group, Textile
A new survey, titled "Holiday 2013: Top Trends to Watch" commissioned by Kronos Incorporated and conducted online by Harris Interactive, reveals that it will take an average of 2.2 negative experiences for Americans to stop purchasing from ...
Tags: shopping experiences
For the medical device industry, lasers are an invaluable technology. With myriad uses ranging from eyesight improvement to imaging, medical lasers can be found in almost all hospitals in the United States and other developed countries. ...
When Shimano announced its distribution shakeup in July, a number of Taiwanese component suppliers began calculating the odds of picking up additional aftermarket sales in the U.S. market. After all, Shimano is trimming its U.S. ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
There was a time when just hanging an "open" sign on your store meant you would be successful. Thanks in part to the recession, as well as whole slew of things—from changing demographics to technological advances to increased ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
With Australian retailers and suppliers facing increasing challenges from a rapidly changing digital world, a new three-day exhibition for the logistics sector has been announced for Melbourne in March 2014. The 3PL (third party ...
The fall months are a celebratory time of the year in agriculture. Growers are busily harvesting an abundance of various crops following months of planning, investment, hard work, and sweat. Everyone is poised for a much deserved payday. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Few fleet managers will be surprised to learn that a modern lift truck can collect data about every facet of its operation, well beyond the simple hour meter. Many are familiar with the concept that microprocessors onboard even the most ...
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When you test the softness of a cashmere Brunello Cucinelli pullover or try on a pair of knee high boots from Manolo Blahnik, it's easy to forget that luxury retailers face the same distribution issues as mass merchandise merchants. They ...
Memphis-based Hollywood Feed offers unique brands of unprocessed food for canine and feline pets as well as ancillary services such as grooming, training and proper pet nutrition. Since 2007, the company has expanded from three to 20 stores ...