UPL,a Cardiff-based utilities company and Opus Energy partner,is planning to create 70 new jobs following the acquisition of Meter-Mimic. Rhys Wynne,chief executive of UPL,said:"The acquisition fitted perfectly into our plans for ...
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A cement plant called "Cimenfort" was inaugurated Wednesday in the Catumbela Industrial Growth Point (PDIC), central Benguela province, during a ceremony presided over by the minister of Geology, Mining and Industry, Joaquim Duarte David. ...
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IDG News Service - Apple's top hardware engineer, Bob Mansfield, is not leaving the company after all and will stay to work on future products, Apple announced Monday. Apple said in June that Mansfield, its senior vice president of ...
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Northland Laboratories has opened its expanded state-of-the-art food testing laboratory in Green Bay,Wisconsin,US,in order to strengthen its food testing capabilities. Northland Laboratories president DJ Alwattar said that with the ...
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IDG News Service - Responding to the trend of streamlining data-center management, Zenoss has added to its network monitoring software support for a popular open-source messaging bus. "This is one of the most significant launches in our ...
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Google is to lay off 20%of the Motorola Mobility workforce with 4,000 redundancies worldwide,two-thirds of that number coming from outside the US. The company said it intends to ditch its standard phones as part of the move."Motorola ...
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Hain Daniels plans to expand its frozen food factory at Fakenham,Norfolk,UK-a move which is expected to create 150 new jobs. This announcement comes after the$230m acquisition of Daniels Group by US-owned Hains Celestial in October ...
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Nestle has opened its first facility in Angola, which it says will act as a "finishing centre" for its Nido milk powder. The CHF16m (US$16.5m) facility in Luanda will eventually be extended to also manufacture products including Nescafe, ...
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Higher sales in the UK have led discounter Aldi to outline plans to create more jobs in the country. Aldi said today (31 July) it would create "up to" 3,000 jobs in the next 12 months as it continues its expansion in the UK. The new ...
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UK-based Plessey Semiconductors Ltd has taken delivery of a CRIUS II-XL metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor (in 7x6-inch wafer configuration) from deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany (which ...
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Frustrated by the additional expense and difficulties with slower shipping,Seesmart Technologies(SEST)feels it is very important to have more control over the manufacturing process,as a result,it has intended to increase their production of ...
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Tasmanian Bakeries,a bakery based in Tasmania,Australia,has announced an expansion plan which will boost its production by 80%over the next two years and create 22 new jobs. The expansion will allow Tasmanian Bakeries to launch its ...
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BT today announced it had won the tender to roll out superfast broadband across Wales. The deal aims to provide 96%of the country with connections of up to 80Mbps by 2015,helping reach the UK's government's goal of having the best ...
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American Air Filter Co Inc (AAF International) is expanding its Fayetteville manufacturing facility in Arkansas. The filter company will invest US$516 000 in the facility and create 58 new jobs. The company currently employs 112 people in ...
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Ephesus EG4™ LED Chip is first completely developed and manufactured in New York state Ephesus, a Syracuse-based nanotechnology company formed by former Lockheed Martin employees, has partnered with Group4 Labs, based at the College ...
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