Over the past two weeks, glass manufacturing workers at CSR Viridian’s plants in Sydney and Melbourne have spoken to World S ocialist W eb S ite correspondents about the closure and merger of facilities that will cost more than 200 ...
Tags: CSR glass, glass, glass industry
The brand has been extended into ranges including men's underwear, wool fabrics, kids and sports clothing and the more feminine Exclusive Collection. Webb deVlam has created a new brand identity architecture and packaging designs that will ...
Tags: brand identity architecture, packaging designs, packaging
A PET line at a plant operated by South Korea-based KP Chemical is currently off-stream. “Line no-2 of the PET plant located in Ulsan has been shutdown due to technical reasons and is under maintenance since March 7, ...
Tags: KP Chemical, PET line, fibre
TRANSFIELD Services has signed a two-year contract worth up to $170 million with NBN Co to construct the fibre network in metropolitan Sydney and suburban areas. The contract, which comes with two one-year options to renew, adds to the ...
Tags: Construction, Service
Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS) has entered into a collaboration agreement with Ahlstrom to use Ahlstrom Disruptor® technology for drinking water applications. DW&PS says that the agreement combines its R&D and manufacturing ...
Tags: Water Solutions, Industrial Equipment, Dow Water&Process Solutions
Brocade today announced its new Fabric Vision technology, a hardware and software SAN solution. The company claims that the product maximises uptime, dramatically simplifies SAN deployment and management, and provides unprecedented levels ...
Tags: hardware, software, storage network
Odegon Technologies’ odour eliminating tags will be available on the British high street from March. The small DeoTags absorb under arm smells via a special military-grade nano-porous fibre sewn into garment lining. Underarm ...
Tags: garment lining, garment, suits
Taiwan-based Formosa Chemical and Fibre Corp (FCFC) plans to undertake maintenance turnaround at its line No.1 of its aromatics plant in March 2013. “The line No.1 of our aromatics plant will undergo a scheduled maintenance ...
Tags: aromatics plant, Chemical, Fibre
The 2013 edition of Yarn Expo Spring will present a new record of nearly 200 exhibitors from seven countries and regions, all looking to take advantage of strong Chinese yarn output figures from last year and a booming domestic economy. ...
Cubbie station, the largest privately owned irrigation property in Australia, is expecting to harvest 200,000 bales of ginned cotton this year. The new owners of the 93,000 hectares of cultivation land - Lempriere, Chinese textile and ...
Tags: ginned cotton, cotton, textile
A strong advocate for Australian wool, TV celebrity and Aussie mum Catriona Rowntree appears to be right on target with the launch of some exciting new products in her babywear range. Stocked in selected Target and Target Country stores ...
Tags: Merino wool, babywear, fibre
QLogic's technology for clustered cache storage on SAN adapters will hit the market this month in the form of adapters with integrated 200GB or 400GB flash cards. The company announced the technology last year and called it Mt. Rainier. ...
In booth 2405 at the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA is ...
NEITHER Australia nor the world has seen anything quite like Labor's National Broadband Network. No other government in the world is committing the scale of funding - a cost of $37.4 billion - or attempting to build such a far-reaching ...
Tags: Computer Products, Computer, Network, Electrical, Electronics
A new seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) pretreatment unit has been evaluated for treating high-turbidity seawater. The pretreatment unit consists of a double-stage fibre filter and ultrafiltration. An RO unit operated with the pretreatment ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, seawater reverse osmosis