PMMI, the owner and producer of PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2013 (September 23-25; Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV), announced that exhibit space in The Processing Zone has sold out. The packed pavilion, located in the South Hall, will ...
The American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) announced hat Donna Dempsey has been named Executive Director of the organization, effective June 3, 2013. "Donna brings more than 15 years of experience to AMERIPEN, ...
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US-based Azzur Group has opened its new office in Palo Alto, California. Azzur is a service company that offers a wide range of compliance services to the Life Sciences Industry. The company provides consulting services and project ...
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It's never been wise to play around with lead paint, the kind kicked up during the renovation of homes built before 1978. Nowadays, doing so can be costly in more ways than one, as the Environmental Protection Agency continues to fine ...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has issued a health alert, warning consumers and retailers who have purchased raw milk and raw milk cheese from Stump Acres Dairy in New Salem, York County, to discard it immediately due to the ...
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The University of Pennsylvania, MIT and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana are in the process of creating a surreal design involving LEDs, implants and tattoos. Researchers are working to create an implant that uses ...
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US property and casualty insurance broker, Keystone Insurers Group is planning to start adding partner agencies in Illinois to its franchise operations during the fourth quarter of 2013. According to initial plans, a total of ten ...
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Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania (UVSP) and its insurance subsidiary has successfully completed acquisition of John T. Fretz Insurance Agency, a family-owned-and-operated full-service property and casualty insurance agency. The ...
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AT THE JUST concluded Lightfair International (LFI) 2013 trade show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the operative word was "BRIGHT." "We're in a lumens [brightness level] race," several exhibitors explained. All to prove that their ...
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US-based Friendly's Ice Cream has introduced a new line of frozen desserts that are packaged in boxes comprised of four or six individually-wrapped servings. The new additions include Vanilla Alpine Bars (vanilla ice cream with a ...
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Insteel Wire Products Company, a subsidiary of Mount Airy, North Carolina-based Insteel Industries, Inc., has purchased all of the concrete pipe and box culvert reinforcement production equipment and certain related assets of Tatano Wire ...
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MetLife, Inc. recently took out an energy savings policy with GE Lighting (NYSE: GE)—upgrading to Evolve™ LED outdoor lighting in parking lots at 10 office locations and switching to more energy-efficient T8 fluorescent indoor ...
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It's reported that NLMK North America has sent a letter to its customers that it planned to temporarily shut down one of its galvanizing line. Their light-gauge No.2 galvanizing line in Pennsylvania will temporarily be shut down until ...
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There's a technology race going on in the bicycle industry, and it's leaving retailers in a scramble to keep up. Frame and component makers have introduced a slew of new axle, bottom bracket and fork interfaces in the past few years as they ...
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Case goods and upholstery manufacturer Fine Furniture Design has replaced industry veteran Ted Philpott with Jim Adams as president and CEO. Philpott left the full-line furniture source this week and Adams has immediately filled his ...
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