On Sunday, members of The Furniture Makers’ Company set off on a gruelling six day, 450 mile cycle ride to Bordeaux with the aim of raising £50,000 for the industry’s charity. Friends and family of the 22 London to ...
NewCold Advanced Logistics has awarded contracts to Dematic to build two high-bay warehouses at new sites in Truganina, Melbourne. The automated cold storage facilities, which when built will be the largest of their kind in the Southern ...
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Global food company Aramark has announced that it will relocate its Philadelphia-based world headquarters to a new site situated along the Schuylkill River in fall of 2018. The new site at 2400 Market Street was originally built in the ...
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Members of The Furniture Makers’ Company are gearing up for a 450-mile bike ride to the French wine capital in September to raise money for the industry’s charity. Twenty-two people have signed up for the London to Bordeaux ...
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A sustainability scheme recognised as the environmental benchmark for the furniture industry, welcomes two new members to the scheme. To achieve membership of the Furniture Industry Sustainability Programme (FISP), an organisation must ...
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One year after a devastating fire which led to the destruction of its main manufacturing plant, Abergavenny Fine Foods has opened its new £10m manufacturing plant,with a special visit from The Prince of Wales. As part of his ...
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Ball reported second quarter 2016 net earnings attributable to the corporation of $369m, or $2.54 per diluted share on sales of $2bn, compared to $160m of net earnings attributable to the corporation, or $1.13 per diluted share, on sales of ...
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Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) has broadened its material handling product range by introducing a new range of versatile elevated work platforms. The elevated work platforms (EWP) are currently part of the demonstration fleet ...
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Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has reported a 23% rise in revenue from €5.7m in first-half 2015 to €7m in first-half 2016, ...
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Grocery wholesaler, Metcash, has turned its profits around announcing a AUD$216.5 million profit after tax for the 12 months ended 30 April 2016. This is a vast turnaround on its AUD $384.2 million loss it reported for the prior 12 month ...
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Konica Minolta has made major advances made into new industrial printing markets such as labels and packaging, as well as numerous sales of digital printing and software services during drupa. Initial results from the trade fair have even ...
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The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Brakes, the largest UK food distributor, by Sysco, the largest US food distributor. The Commission found that the takeover would not adversely ...
Graphic Packaging International signed an agreement to utilize Merrimak Capital Company for its material handling equipment leases. Merrimak Capital Company, the industry's leading full service equipment management company and equipment ...
At the SNEC's 10th International Photovoltaic Power Generation Conference & Exhibition (SNEC PV Power EXPO 2016) in Shanghai, China (24-26 May), Von Ardenne of Dresden, Germany (which manufactures equipment for industrial coatings on ...
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The landscape of the global OEM AIO (all-in-one) PC market will undergo a dramatic change in 2016 as number-two maker TPV-Inventa Technology begins making its gradual exit from the segment, according to Digitimes Research. Asia Vital ...