With the rise of the Chinese middle class, the nation's cruise market will continue to grow, and is expected to become the Asia's largest market by 2020, industry sources said. Data recently released by the Cruise Lines International ...
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Local governments are taking action to respond to the central government's appeal to popularize new energy vehicles across the nation. Earlier this month, Beijing authorities announced that pure electric vehicles would not be affected by ...
For the second quarter of fiscal 2015 ended February 28, 2015, net income per diluted share slipped 16 per cent year over year at NYSE listed Family Dollar Stores. In the second quarter of fiscal 2015, Family Dollar reported net income ...
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Fourteen months after General Motors started recalling more than 2 million small cars with faulty ignition switches worldwide, the company says it has repaired about 70 percent of the vehicles that are still on the road. The figures, ...
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Canada’s recycling rate of post-consumer plastic packaging has increased by 9% in a single year, according to the Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA). The country reportedly collected over 311 million kilograms of ...
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GoodWeave has moved closer to eradicating child labour in the rug industry with the addition of three more UK companies to its international labelling scheme. Rug Couture, Sage Green Designs and The Moorland Rug Company have all become ...
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on April 6 that two more flocks of commercial Minnesota turkey have been infected with the lethal avian flu, out of which one flock is already in an quarantine zone. According to the USDA, ...
Although visitor numbers fell at the recently concluded Interfiliere Hong Kong, mainly due to the close-by Chinese New Year, it was made up with visitors from newer countries visiting the show. This edition of Interfiliere Hong Kong saw ...
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Costco Wholesale Canada has recalled Kirkland Signature brand roasted chicken salad over possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. According to Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Costco has recalled two of its roasted chicken ...
Barcodes look mysterious. And every now and then an urban myth grows and develops about one or other of their numbers and/or stripes. The most enduring is that barcodes hold insider information about a product’s country of origin. ...
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Hudl, the sports video analysis platform, today announced $72.5 million in funding, marking the company's first major institutional investment. With more than 3.5 million professional, college and amateur athletes in 40 countries, Hudl is a ...
Due to the major aggressive expansion plans of some Chinese LED companies, 220 gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) reactors will be installed in 2015, according to the latest data from the IHS LED ...
Tags: GaN MOCVD LEDs Epistar Sanan OptoElectronics, LED companies, Electronics
Due to the major aggressive expansion plans of some China-based LED companies, IHS forecasts that 220 gallium nitride (GaN) reactors will be installed in 2015. This new capacity expansion is slightly different from what happened several ...
Tags: GaN, MOCVD Companies, Lights
Farmers in the U.S. will plant 89.2 million acres of corn this spring, down 2% from last year, while at the same time planting 84.6 million acres of soybeans, up 1% from a year ago. Soybean acreage will be higher in 21 of the 31 major ...
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The cases, muffin wraps and printed greaseproof paper producer’s newly formed division is being spearheaded by Phil Brooks as national sales manager. Chevler said it will offer a full range of siliconised greaseproof, greaseproof, ...
Tags: Muffin wraps, Greaseproof paper, Packaging