Kona Brewery has broken ground on a new $20m facility in Hawaii near its current facility. Located on 2.6 acres leased from the Queen Liliuokalani Trust, will produce 100,000 barrels annually once it becomes operational. The ...
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L.L.Bean announced its fiscal 2015 sales were flat as well as its intention to pay performance bonuses to employees. For the fiscal year ending February 28, 2016, L.L.Bean reported annual net sales of $1.6 billion, essentially level with ...
Sonoco, one of the global diversified packaging companies, has expanded its fiber certification program into Brazil and Mexico, as of mid-February 2016. Although most of the raw material used in our mills is 100 percent recycled fiber, ...
Each succeeding edition of LED Expo Thailand has opened new possibilities for LED-related professionals to expand their businesses into ASEAN’s potentially-viable LED markets. The 4th edition to be held in April 2016 will include more ...
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Chinese central authorities on Sunday issued a document to set the basic principles, key tasks and targets for future urban development and management, aiming to make China's sprawling cities more livable, efficient and green. The ...
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The open-access paper The role of photonics in energy, authored by a team including Zakya Kafafi of Lehigh University, editor of the Journal of Photonics for Energy, traces the development of the science of light from the Arab scholar Ibn ...
China's top economic planner unveiled goals Wednesday on cutting PM2.5, unhealthy particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 microns, which is the main pollutant in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. An official of the Department ...
Ardent Mills, the premier flour-milling and ingredient company, is announcing a new organic initiative committed to helping US wheat growers double organic wheat acres by 2019. Ardent Mills CEO Dan Dye said: "Ardent Mills' vision is to be ...
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The makers of Jolly Pumpkin and North Peak have partnered with Seoul-based brewery, Playground. The craft beer industry in South Korea is just awakening and Playground Brewery is looking to bring variety and change to a country used to ...
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Town council members from Berlin located in Connecticut, U.S. has approved a US $ 1.48 million contract to swap 2,538 streetlights with LEDs , reported Hartford Courant. The payback period of the lighting project is expected to take less ...
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China's emerging industrial sectors, inspired by technological innovation and innovative policies, have developed rapidly in 2015. The boom in telecommunication, high-tech manufacturing, e-commerce, new energy and other emerging ...
China's cabinet, the State Council,approved major hydropower and nuclear power projects on Wednesday, vowing to continue developing clean energy to secure steady economic growth. The approved projects are the Wudongde hydropower station ...
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The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) commends the U.S. Department of Energy on its Dec. 2, 2015 decision that mandatory energy conservation standards for high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps are not technically feasible ...
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Congress on Wednesday avoided a government shutdown by passing a bill that keeps the government running through mid-December, but leaves unresolved a divide over federal spending that threatens to resurface this winter with more perilous ...
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On November 29, MOFCOM Vice Minister Gao Yan attended the 9th China-Japan Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection General Discussion Forum held in Tokyo Japan and delivered a keynote speech. Gao pointed out that at present, the ...
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