The McMaster cexplored the freight village concept and its potential applications to Ontario during the Freight Hub symposium last week. PhD candidate Chris Higgins outlined the key benefits freight villages can provide to an array of ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Apps Express is the first tenant to commit to moving into a new Boundary Bay Industrial Park near Deltaport, Canada’s largest container terminal. The area is being transformed with the construction of the billion-dollar South Fraser ...
Tags: app, express, company, lease, space, B.C., industrial, park
Premier Foods is ahead of target on cutting suppliers and product lines, according to ceo Gavin Darby, reporting on third quarter (Q3) financial results yesterday. Premier Foods is growing its core power brands "During the quarter we ...
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Fine embroidery requires far more than a creative motif. For the embroidery to have the desired visual effect, the yarn must be precisely tailored to the material quality, colour, look and use of the finished product. The yarns from ...
The supermarket today became the first supermarket to publish figures on food waste and announced a raft of measures to combat the problem. Key findings in the study, which tracked 25 top-selling products on their journey from farm to ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Food Waste
Trailer Wizards announced the opening of a new pick-up location in Kleinburg, Ontario this week in order to continue to better serve customers north of the Greater Toronto Area. The four acre yard will have the capacity for 200 trailers ...
Tags: trailer, Transportation, Auto
High-street retailer Poundland has outsourced its network and data centre requirements to communication services vendor NextiraOne As part of the agreement, NextiraOne will provide services for Poundland's Cisco-based network ...
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When it comes to shunt trucks, you don't often get splashy new truck launches, complete with elaborate Formula 1-style curtain raisings. What you do get is continuous improvement of existing models. Not a year goes by without some ...
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A progress report on facilitating cross-border business travel is signalling a willingness to change the way Canada and the US deal with the repositioning of foreign empty trailers, according to the Canadian Trucking Alliance. The report ...
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ThinQk Ltd is a complete one-stop shop for aftermarket parts that fit Air Operated Double Diaphragm Pumps. These substitute components are suitable for the Depa, Graco, Verder Air and Versa Matic brands, and from the beginning of May 2013 ...
Tags: Manufacturing&Processing Machinery, Pumps, Aftermarket Parts
As the US Senate has passed the Marketplace Fairness Act on e-commerce retailers earlier this month, the brick and mortar apparel retailers are expecting a relief from the increasing competition with online retailers since the act will ...
Tags: Sales Tax, Apparel Businesses
The US Senate has passed the ‘Marketplace Fairness Act’ that would impose sales tax on online retailers by 69-27 vote. At present, only companies with brick-and-mortar stores in the US have to pay online sales tax. However, ...
High street baker Greggs has won approval to build a new frozen savouries factory in the Midlands, as the firm pursues its store expansion plan and continues its move into packaged supermarket retail. The UK’s biggest bakery ...
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The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) has released what it calls alarming new evidence from a survey of more than 950 truck drivers across the country that graphically highlights the pressures in Australia’s most dangerous industry ...
Tags: Chain of Responsibility, TWU
A distribution centre for Tesco at Middlewich, Cheshire – operated by CEVA Logistics – faces closure with the potential loss of 130 jobs. Tesco is reviewing its online grocery distribution network This follows Tesco’s ...
Tags: Tesco, Agriculture, Food