Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and space solar power markets, has entered into a definitive purchase agreement for NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, ...
Tags: Tunable Laser, Transceiver Product
DOE's Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC) has released the results of a voluntary web-based inventory survey of public street and area lighting across the U.S., conducted during the latter half of 2013 and intended to ...
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As December declined 38 points to close at 63.56 cents/lb, while March shed 56 points to close at 61.71 cents/lb, New York cotton futures moved slightly lower this week. Another round of severe weather in the Delta and Southeast ...
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According to a report from the Metals Service Center Institute, US service center steel shipments in September 2014 increased by 8.3 percent from September 2013. Steel product inventories increased 16.4 percent from September a year ago. At ...
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Long before China became the go-to destination for foreign manufacturing, there was Hong Kong. During the 1960s and 1970s Hong Kong was a low-cost center for manufacturing and the electronics industry’s window into the vast market ...
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The Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii has selected BAE Systems’ HybriDrive Series-E propulsion system to power four New Flyer Xcelsior 60-foot, low-floor rapid transit buses. The system ...
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"My father started the business in Brooklyn, New York and relocated to Florida in 1987,” said Vice President of AmRad Richard Stockman. “We were a major supplier for over 35 years to the big three domestic automotive companies ...
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Following dull September sales, US apparel retailer - JC Penney revised downwardly comparable store sales for the third quarter of 2014, which it now expects to be in the low-single digit range, compared to its original guidance of ...
Canada-based food packaging company CKF will be producing its Earthcycle line of agricultural trays at its Hantsport, Nova Scotia facility. The move follows CKF's acquisition of Earthcycle Packaging in May 2013. The first ...
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Weak retail traffic and ramped-up discounts to clear merchandise, once again hit profits at denim jeans marketer - Levi Strauss & Co for the third fiscal quarter ended August 24, 2014. In the third fiscal quarter, Levis posted profit of ...
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Blue Nile is being challenged by rising diamond prices, forcing the online jeweler to seek out growth in other areas. As diamond prices rise, eroding Blue Nile’s competitive advantage that its lower online prices offer, consumers will ...
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Asia, which had generally led the global growth rate until the recent inventory glut hit China, is showing signs of improvement but remains the weakest region overall. Sales rose 5.4% in weighted currency but fell in US$ to $12,593 million ...
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In September this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector was at 43.6 percent, down by 4.8 percentage points as compared to August, still below the 50 percent threshold and falling to the lowest level of the ...
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The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 51.1 percent in September of the current year, stable compared to August, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In the given month, the ...
Halberd Corporation subsidiary I-TAP announced that Anheuser-Busch InBev has scheduled a test of the I-TAP beer dispensing system at their research and development draught room in St. Louis. Anheuser-Busch InBev is the leading global ...
Tags: Anheuser-Busch InBev, Test, Food