Alcoa has announced it will permanently close its Point Henry aluminium smelter and two rolling mills in Australia. The smelter and an adjacent rolling mill are located in Geelong, Victoria. The second mill and a recycling facility are ...
Tags: aluminium, Metallurgy, Mineral
Net sales during the fourth quarter 2013 increased 3.3% to $91.6 million compared to $88.7 million during the same period in 2012. Domestic sales increased 6.2% or $3.4 million while international sales decreased 1.6% or $0.5 million. Sales ...
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), the world’s largest chip packaging and testing company, expects its first-quarter shipments to decrease 12-15% sequentially due to seasonal factors, as well as a partial shutdown of its K7 ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Electronics
Actega DS has registered a FoodSafe brand for sealant compounds and closures which it will be demonstrating at Interpack 2014. FoodSafefe stands for low-migration (falls short of the global migration limits) and certification for direct ...
Admedus has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market an advanced cardiovascular scaffold, CardioCel, which is designed to repair and treat a range of cardiovascular and vascular defects. The approval is ...
Tags: Cardiocel, FDA Clearance
Hospital equipment maker Hill-Rom(Batesville,IN)plans on cutting approximately 350 workers,or 5%of its global workforce,to save roughly$30 million annually.The restructuring efforts include a downsizing of the firm's European manufacturing ...
Tags: Medtech, Hill-Rom, restructuring
Paper-based protective packaging manufacturer Hexacomb has developed a new paper-based, cost-reducing HexStack packaging system for the transport of larger liquid-filled bottles. Said to feature a single layer of Hexacomb custom-die cut ...
Italy-based Guala Closures Group has introduced a new range of closures Verso, Alusnap Olio and Olio 1031, for olive oil. The closures have been developed with the technology that gives better pour, prevents re-filling and preserves the ...
US-based National Beef Packing is set to shut its beef processing plant in Brawley, California, due to a drop in supply of fed cattle. The company expects the last day of production at the plant to be 4 April 2013. The closure will ...
Tags: Beef Packing, Food
Renewable and recyclable materials provider UPM is set to shut down its paper mill located at Docelles in France. For closing the Docelles mill,the company had already completed employee information and consultation negotiations,and also ...
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National Beef Packing Company announced today that they will be closing their beef processing facility in Brawley, California in early April. The closure is the result of tight margins due to declining cattle numbers. The plant employs ...
Tags: Packing plant, beef
After crossing 3,400 miles of the Pacific Ocean last year to inspect a tuna canneryon American Samoa,a U.S.Food and Drug Administration(FDA)inspector asked for copies of some records from the StarKist Co. "Charlie the Tuna,"the company's ...
Tags: Starkist Tuna, tuna cannery
Students at Buckinghamshire New University have launched a social media campaign against the closure of two undergraduate furniture degree courses. The campaign takes the form of a Facebook page, titled 'In Support of Furniture courses at ...
Tags: Furniture, FDA, BA, High Wycombe
BD Launches the PAXgene® Blood DNA Tube in Europe BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the commercial availability of the CE-marked PAXgene® Blood DNA Tube in Europe. The ...
Tags: BD, DNA, PAXgene, PreAnalytiX GmbH
Medtech giant St. Jude Medical announced a major reorganization and leadership changes on Tuesday. The Little Canada, MN–based company says its two operating divisions will be integrated into one research and development ...