The European Commission (EC) announced on June 4 a punitive tariff rate of 11.8% on China-made solar panels and main components such as solar cells and wafers, according to The Wall Street Journal. The tariff rate is lower than expected ...
As environment ministers await the final economic analysis on a national container deposit system(CDS), a recently released study has confirmed significant savings for local councils.* “Some members of the beverage and packaging ...
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A low-power Thunderbolt interconnect for smartphones and tablets is in the works, but the wired technology may not thrive if consumers prefer products using the wireless WiGig specification for data transfers. There is a need for faster ...
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INVISALIGN, a San Jose company, uses 3-D printing to make each mouthful of customised, transparent braces. Mackenzies Chocolates, a confectioner in Santa Cruz, uses a 3-D printer to pump out chocolate molds. And earlier this year, Cornell ...
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The recent announcement by Alliance Boots that it was to cut 200 jobs at its Beeston factory in Nottinghamshire over a two-year period has raised questions about its longstanding involvement in contract packaging. The factory, which until ...
Intel is jumping into cloud gaming with the new Xeon E3-1200v3 chips, which are the company's first server processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture. The server chips are targeted at microservers that will be able to serve ...
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Caterham will make its debut at the Le Mans 24 Hour endurance race later this month as the company continues to build its brand ahead of the launch of its all-new model in 2016. Racing under the banner of Caterham Motorsport, the British ...
Heartened by a brief mention of liquefied natural gas exports by President Barack Obama, the new head of the US trade group for shale gas producers said Thursday he thought Obama should hasten a permitting process that has issued only two ...
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The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), a project of sustainability nonprofit GreenBlue, announced the successful completion of the soft launch phase of its How2Recycle recycling labeling system. In addition, major brand name Kellogg's ...
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Paul Zalai. The Australian Federation of International Forwarders (AFIF) and advocacy body Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) have formed an alliance to address a range of emerging operational issues. The alliance will see the two entities ...
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Symphony Environmental Technologies deputy chairman has told Chinese investors that environmental technologies can offer many benefits for future investment with worldwide applications and are urgently needed to tackle China’s own ...
Huntsman Textile Effects (HTE), Singapore, has introduced the PHOBOL? CP range of fluoropolymer textile finishes offering dual-action stain management for apparel. The new range, which includes Phobol CP-DP and CP-DL, combines an oil- and ...
Renault has acknowledged the decision of electric vehicle network provider Better Place to file for liquidation, but says the move will not negatively impact its own electric vehicle strategy. In a brief release, Renault said that while ...
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General Insurance Corporation (GIC Re), the Indian government owned sole reinsurer, is seriously considering expanding reinsurance business beyond domestic boundary through the acquisition of some Lloyd’s syndicates. Speaking at a ...
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Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services is set to launch a new universal life insurance product designed to allow customers to benefit from premium reductions, if long-term interest rates increases. Scheduled to be launched ...