Downtown-based PPG Industries is sitting on about $2 billion in cash as it goes into the fourth quarter, which is usually a cash-generating quarter, said Chairman and CEO Charles Bunch, and how the coatings and specialty materials company ...
Tags: PPG Industries, Acquisitions, titanium dioxide raw material
The US-based firm reported earnings of $51m, or 28 cents per share for the three months that ended 30 September. This is down from $117m, or 67 cents per share, a year ago. Adjusted for restructuring charges and income from discontinued ...
Tags: solid volume growth, corrugated packaging, health care packaging
Germany Siemens has scheduled to promote its subsidiary Osram split listing plan.According to Siemens,Osram will transform into form as GmbH form. In addition, Siemens group will set up Osram Lamps AG, and the new lamps company may liste ...
Mozilla last week released the first public preview of a Firefox browser that runs in Windows 8's touch-first"Modern"or"Metro"user interface(UI). The Firefox app for Modern--the UI dubbed"Metro"until Microsoft ditched the term over ...
HP's shares have plummeted to a nine-year low after its CEO Meg Whitman stated that revenue for 2013 would decline and that it would take five years to revive the firm financially. Whitman – the third HP CEO in as many years – ...
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NACCO Industries,Inc.(NYSE:NC)and Hyster-Yale Materials Handling,Inc.(NYSE:HY)announced today the spin-off by NACCO of its materials handling business to NACCO stockholders. At the close of business today,NACCO will distribute a dividend ...
Tags: Materials Handling, Share, Common Stock
Two key figures behind the emergence of concentrator photovoltaics(CPV)as a viable energy technology have won a share of the 2012 German Environmental Award. Worth€500,000,the award is presented each year by the Deutsche ...
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US dairy giant Dean Foods has said it is considering the sale of its Morningstar business,a producer of creams and cultured dairy products for foodservice and own-label firms. Dean Foods issued a statement yesterday(26 September)after a ...
Italian street wear brand 55DSL will be available at the stores in 5 cities to start with namely- Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Ludhiana. The brand will start retailing through parent brand DIESEL's stores in luxury mall Palladium, ...
Tags: street wear, luxury mall, Graffiti, Apparel
Sony's diode lasers claim 2012 Leibinger prize 17 Sep 2012 Mass production of laser diodes and backwards compatible optical data storage recognized with biennial Zukunftspreis. Osamu Kumagai, a senior VP at Sony, has won the 2012 ...
Tags: Sony, Osamu Kumagai, Red Emitters, Blu-ray Disc
NACCO Industries,Inc.,today announced that the Board of Directors declared a stock dividend of one share of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling,Inc.("Hyster-Yale")Class A common stock and one share of Hyster-Yale Class B common stock for each ...
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NTNU researchers have patented and are commercializing GaAs nanowires grown on graphene,a hybrid material with competitive properties.Semiconductors grown on graphene are expected to become the basis for new types of device systems,and ...
HP has announced the appointment of Robert Youngjohns to run its Autonomy software arm,ending a search that began in June after the sudden departure of Autonomy founder and CEO Mike Lynch. Youngjohns previously worked at Sun ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath,Germany says that Showa Denko of Chichibu,Japan has added a SiC CVD Warm-Wall Planetary Reactor system to its Aixtron equipment base,capable of handling either ten 100mm or six 150mm ...
Tags: Aixtron, Showa Denko, CVD system, deposition equipment maker
South African CIGS spin-off PTIP orders €7m of equipment from partner Singulus Singulus Technolgies AG of Kahl am Main, Germany, which makes production equipment for the Optical Disc and Solar sectors, says that Photovoltaic ...
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