Viracon Inc. announced it will make an investment of more than $30 million at its Owatonna, Minn., for a new coater. According to the announcement, Viracon is adding the new line at the Owatonna facility because it contains the ...
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Photo courtesy of Sydney Ports Corporation. Opinion – Greg Cameron Selling a 99-year lease to Port Botany Container Terminal for $2 billion is bad economics. The deal requires Australian taxpayers to pay $4 billion for upgrading ...
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Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), together with South-Asia Enterprise Development Facility (SEDF), has presented environmental compliance awards to 25 garment manufacturing firms. The recipient ...
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Canadian oil sands startup Athabasca Oil Corp said Monday it would start an environmental impact study as part of plans to expand its Hangingstone oil sands facility in northern Alberta to 82,000 b/d. "We currently hold regulatory ...
Ultrafiltration has become an increasingly important membrane separation technology in recent years. Anthony Bennett describes the fundamentals of ultrafiltration and highlights some current trends, as well as recent innovations in the ...
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US-based container manufacturer Norton Packaging has broken ground for its new facility in Jasper County in Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD). The company has invested invest $12m in its first ...
Austrian plastic packaging company Alpla has announced plans to invest $22.4m to open a new blow molding plant in Bowling Green in Kentucky, US by July 2013. Alpla bought the 108,000ft2 plant from the Bowling Green Economic Development ...
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Newspapers are filled with stories describing reductions and removal of street lighting in order to reduce municipal costs. Tackling the tricky questions of when and where to install roadway illumination is a challenge for transportation ...
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Governor Bob McDonnell today announced the formation of Virginia’s newest collaboration between industry and Virginia universities: the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems (CCALS). Modeled after the successful ...
Since its launch in April 2008, the USAID-Tijara Provincial Economic Growth Program has used an integrated approach to economic development that combines financial incentives with educational opportunities to spur private sector development ...
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Fashion designers whose businesses are based in one of New York City’s five boroughs and have been open for at least one year are eligible to apply for a free program to be held at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) that will ...
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French Historian Fernand Braudel claimed fashion is “peculiarly a feature of Western history.” The New York Times in 1913 exclaimed “The fashions in China? It never occurred to you, perhaps, that there were any!” ...
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The Bangladesh garment sector, especially the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), should organize road shows in Brazil, Japan, Russia and the US to boost the image of the country’s garment sector, ...
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The trade gateway and ‘barometer’ to the Chinese market opens again in April. The China Import and Export Fair, commonly known as the Canton Fair, will be held from April 15 to May 5 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex ...
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ADVANCE, N.C. — An expansion of Ashley Furniture's new distribution center here will be delayed for another year due to the discovery of four acres of wetlands at the site, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. Bill Coslo, an attorney ...