US pasta and pesto manufacturer Armanino Foods has recorded an increase in full-year earnings, despite battling rising raw material prices as a result of the US drought. Net profit amounted to US$2.88bn in the 12 months to the end of ...
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Global food group Nestle said 2013 looks every bit as "challenging" as 2012, a year when profits increased but underlying sales growth slowed. The Swiss food giant reported a 11.8% increase in earnings of CHF10.61bn (US$12.02bn) in 2012. ...
Malaysian flexible packaging manufacturer and converter Daibochi Plastic and Packaging is all set to invest MYR45m ($14m) in capital expenditure over three phases to build a new manufacturing plant in Jasin, Malacca. Daibochi managing ...
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Over the past 20 years, sandwich panels have increasingly come to serve as the backbone of flooring, wall, and partition manufacturing for aircraft design. Fabricated by sandwiching a relatively thick sheet of honeycomb core between two ...
Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to ...
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Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium, raising questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in HP’s high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to its website on January ...
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Japanese automaker Toyota Motor (TMC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan to produce Fortuner sport utility vehicle (SUV) in the country. The production of the SUV is scheduled ...
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When the Alliance for American Manufacturing moved to new offices, they set themselves a challenge: could they furnish the office entirely with American-made equipment, electronics, and office furniture? After all, we’re in the midst ...
Cadence has announced that Samsung Foundry and Globalfoundries are supporting its design tools for 20 and 14nm process node. The two foundries are providing SKILL-based process design kits (PDKs) for Cadence's Virtuoso Advanced Node. ...
Raytheon of Waltham, MA, USA has officially opened a new manufacturing facility for silicon carbide (SiC) foundry at Raytheon Glenrothes in Scotland (part of subsidiary Raytheon UK, a contractor to the UK Ministry of Defence). Developed ...
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Huhtamaki Oyj's subsidiary Huhtamaki has announced plans to invest eurp 45m ($60m) over the next three years to open a new manufacturing and distribution unit in Batavia, Ohio, US, to serve customers in the foodservice and retail ...
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Sustainable sourcing CBI supports exporters from developing countries to Europe As the opening date draws nearer, Apparelsourcing Paris is recording an increase of almost 15% in registrations compared with the same period in 2012. The ...
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US-based Elite Pharmaceuticals has announced that it is currently using and shipping packaged product from its 15,000ft2 expanded facility. Elite Pharmaceuticals chairman & CEO Jerry Treppel said shipping packaged product and ...
Mac sales plummeted in the fourth quarter of 2012, falling 22% from the same period the year before, with computer sales accounting for a record low percentage of Apple's total revenue of $54.5 billion. The decline in Mac sales was ...
The new 300,000 sq ft Diamond Pet Foods facility in Ripon, CA went online in May 2012 with more than 500 high efficiency, Class II Div 2 LED fixtures by Dialight, provider of industrial and hazardous location LED lighting. Through combined ...