Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced today an investment of more than $1.5 million to Pulse Canada to lead a multi-sector collaboration project of the pulse, oilseeds and grains industries to improve supply chain efficiency and ...
Tags: Agriculture, canola, crop, grain
Logistics automation, warehousing, materials handling and storage systems company Dematic has introduced the FlexSort SC3 Cross-belt Sorter, a high-rate, high-accuracy sorting system for distribution and warehousing operations. FlexSort ...
Manitoulin Transport has added to its Western Canadian shipping capacity by opening a new terminal in Saskatchewan. The facility sits on 8.4 acres of property located in Corman Park, Sask. It has 16 dock-level doors, and is equipped to ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Truckload carrier Marten Transport reported 2013 was the best financial year in its history, but fourth-quarter income declined. Fourth-quarter net income dropped to $7.3 million, or 22 cents per share, from $7.7 million, or 23 cents per ...
Tags: Transportation
Zenith Global Logistics is adding 16 trucks to the fleet at its warehouse and distribution hub here. The fleet expansion, the specialized furniture carrier's fourth in as many years, is in response to increased demand in the California ...
Mullen Group announced this week its board has approved its 2014 capital budget of $100 million, about $25 million of which will be allocated to its trucking/logistics segment. The funds will be used to buy new trucks, trailers and ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Clip-Lok SimPak has designed new boxes to transport heavy glass loads for a new line of heavy duty trucks. Clip-Lok boxes, which are part of heavy duty truck logistics, are flat-packable and reusable. The collapsible Clip-Lok 2P box, ...
Tags: Heavy Glass Loads, Packaging
Con-way Inc. said its fourth-quarter net profit is likely to be about the same as that of 2012 as expenses increased in its less-than-truckload and logistics units. In addition, bad weather late in December hurt operations at its ...
Four Headquarters of the People’s Liberty Army (PLA) (including the headquarters of the General Staff, the General Political Department, the General Logistics Department, General Armament Department) jointly release a measure to ...
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On January 16, Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) announced that it returned to profit in 2013 following the strong net loss it had recorded in 2012. Accordingly, the group has posted a net ...
Tags: Ansteel Group, Mineral
Soligenix, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing products to treat serious inflammatory diseases where there remains an unmet medical need, as well as developing several biodefense vaccines and therapeutics, ...
Tags: Soligenix, NIAID, ThermoVax, Drs.John Carpenter
German automaker Daimler is set invest EUR190m in its Mercedes-Benz plant in Vitoria, Spain, for the production of medium-size vans. The production is expected to start in 2014. The company will primarily use the amount in the ...
Tags: invest, assembly units
Sears Canada Inc. announced that the Company has entered into an agreement with third party vendor IBM to externally reassign the work currently performed at three internal Sears Customer Contact Centres. The move to a third party will ...
Tags: Sears Canada Inc, IBM, Doug Campbell, Direct channel
Admittedly, when I saw that Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas president Ed Smith would give an “Unplugged” presentation at last fall’s Electronic Components Industry Association Executive Conference, I smiled thinking ...
Tags: Industry Change, Electronics
The 11th ZOOM will take place under the Première Vision Pluriel banner from 18 to 20 February 2014 at Paris-Nord Villepinte, Hall 2. The show’s integration within the group is now complete under the management of PV ...
Tags: PV Manufacturing, Apparel