receives major order to supply propulsion solutions for six new offshore Pipe Laying Vessels to operate in Brazilian waters. Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading solutions and services provider, has received a significant ...
Tags: Transportation, logistics
Osram and Sharp have cross-licensed LED and laser-diode patents, while Zumtobel appoints a new CEO and its Tridonic business completes the sale of its magnetic ballast plant in Australia. Osram GmbK based in Munich, Germany, and Sharp ...
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Governments requested information about 38,000 Facebook users in the first six months of this year the social network has revealed. Facebook's Global Government Requests Report comes after the social network revealed it received 10,000 ...
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Scientists from the University of Strathclyde have invented a unique computer technology that helps in the discovery of smarter drugs to treat major disease, including heart ailments. Dubbed as Shapeshifting Inspired Discovery (SID), the ...
Tags: Faster Drug Discovery, Medicine
The International OEKO-TEX Association’s Dr. Sam Moore, who represents OEKO-TEX in North America, will present a webinar introducing the new OEKO-TEX STeP certification system for sustainable textile production facilities on Tuesday, ...
Tags: Step Certification, OEKO-TEX
In China, the qin is the most respectful of all Chinese musical instruments, and it has a history of about 5,000 years. A legend states that the legendary figures of China’s pre-history, Fuxi, Shennong and Huang Di (Yellow Emperor), ...
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China’s immigration policy was never designed to handle a huge influx of foreigners looking to stay in the country over a long period of time. Since the year 2000, the number of non-Chinese passing through airports, sea ports and ...
Tags: Visa Law, Open for Foreigners
Workers at transport company Toll have voted convincingly in support of protected industrial action, according to the Transport Workers Union (TWU). The result, announced by the Australian Electoral Commission, means that workers at Toll ...
Tags: Logistics
Shaw Floors has announced the introduction of several new PET styles available for the Fall selling season. In addition to Painted Stone, an innovative PET style inspired by natural stone looks, the company will introduce two "Power Buys" ...
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SAP has said that customers should take it as a general rule that if they got a good deal first-time round on maintenance discounts, it is unlikely that they will benefit from new changes that allow companies to partially cancel unused ...
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International Food Products has selected EPIC Systems to develop the process and packaging lines for its new $20m greenfield facility in St Louis, Missouri, US. The new plant, which will be leased from Panattoni Development, combines a ...
Tags: Packaging Lines, US Facility
The German government has recommended that Federal Administration and other high profile public sector departments in the country do not use Windows 8 because, it warns, it contains security backdoors that cannot be controlled or trusted, ...
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The National Security Agency was acquiring thousands of digital communications from Americans as of 2011, according to a declassified document from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The glimpse of the NSA's surveillance on ...
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For EME Maschinenfabrik Clasen GmbH, a leading supplier of batch plants and cullet return systems for the glass industry, Mexico remains a very promising and successful region. Currently EME performs there the installation of a huge ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, glass
In the second of a series of three articles on the treatment of waters, oil and gas industry expert David Robinson discusses the treatment and discharge of produced and other waters from onshore oil and gas production. In the first part ...
Tags: Oil, Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy