US automotive giant Ford Motor is planning to shift the production of Focus small cars and C-Max hybrid vehicles from its Michigan Assembly Plant near Detroit in 2018, to outside US. Even though the automobile major has not disclosed the ...
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While many use meal replacement shakes as a weight loss tool, how effective are they in helping us to shed the kilos? Losing weight can be really, really tough. So it’s no surprise that there’s big money to be made in weight ...
The 17 National Standardization Bodies represented on ISO’s Marine Environment Protection Sub-committee (ISO-TC8-SC2) has voted in favor of circulating ISO 19030 parts 1 and 2 as Draft International Standards. In anticipation of final ...
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A new study reported by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has found increased supply to be the main cause behind global obesity problems. In a report just published in the July 2015 Bulletin of WHO, researchers based in New Zealand ...
Tags: human health, global obesity, food energy supply, fitness equipment
China is capable and confident it can maintain the capital market stable and sound, said a commentary of People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Since mid-June, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index ...
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Wool Packaging Company will open its new packaging unit at Stone in Staffordshire, UK, next month. Woolcool claims to extend an eco-friendly alternative to polymers for the food and pharmaceutical industries by using wool for packaging. ...
Lectra, a developer of integrated technology solutions for industries using soft materials like fabrics recently held a seminar for Bangladeshi suppliers of retail chain H&M in Dhaka. “The two-day event addressed today's trends and ...
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With funding of about €3.9m from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 12 partners in the German automotive sector, its supply industry and the sciences (led by Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany) are ...
The Presidents’ Meeting that took place in Tel Aviv this week highlighted five challenges facing the diamond industry, but the issue of profitability was the most pressing. Constituents of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses ...
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For the first fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2015, net revenue at Egyptian apparel retailer Arafa Holding climbed 9 per cent over the same period of previous fiscal. Arafa Holding reported net revenues of $62.0 million during the first ...
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The retailer narrows net loss on last year’s results but a decrease in promotional activities, baby and entertainment segments have lead the firm to a first quarter loss of $140 million. Toy R Us is remaining positive over its first ...
Richard Eden, senior analyst (Power Semiconductors) at market research firm IHS Technology, attended the recent PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 tradeshow in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), and in a Research Note has ...
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Enliten Tap is an innovation which has three special features: 1, Induction heating system, can provide instant hot water and cooling water of different level, reduce the loss of energy in waiting; 2, Built-in RGB LED light to match the ...
The Hohenstein Institute has developed a model specifically for predicting the lifespan and period of use for cotton textiles, so that uniform providers can work out their costs for replacing worn out materials. “The weakness of ...
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Japan's Rohm Co Ltd has started mass production of what it claims is the first silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) with a trench structure (where the gate is formed on the sidewall of a groove in ...