Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria, including textile and clothing firms, face several challenges—access to finance, rickety infrastructure, patchy energy supplies and security concerns, says a recent Economist ...
Wacker Chemie AG has started up a new specialty monomer plant with a yearly capacity of 3,800 metric tons at its Burghausen facility in Germany. "The specialty monomers; vinyl neodecanoate and vinyl laurate are key raw materials in the ...
Tags: Textile
A new fund that focuses on developing China's next generation of industry - so-called Industry 4.0 - through investment in German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will soon have its initial $1 billion raised, its founder says. ...
French automotive logistics firm Groupe CAT has commissioned US-based technology firm Axway with devising a system to improve schedule and delivery of finished vehicles, motorcycles and spare parts across its network of manufacturers and ...
Tags: Automotive
Government's push of e-commerce in rural areas will stimulate online fresh food sales A government-backed drive toward e-commerce can help open up the agricultural sector and generate a rapid increase in incomes for farmers. At a ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Farming, Agricultural
Volkswagen of America, arm of German automobile major Volkswagen, has partnered with renewable energy and carbon offset services provider 3Degrees for carbon reduction drive in California and Texas, while pumping in $10m to boost its ...
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Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has appointed Kaye Linkenhoger as sales manager, North America, for the group's growing line of K-FLEX low-VOC, non-phthalate plasticizers and coalescents. In this ...
Tags: Construction, adhesives, sealants, caulk
China's new 10-year new-energy vehicle development plan has more objective, practical goals than the one released in 2012, after NEV sales in the first quarter accounted for only 5 percent of this year's original target. The Ministry of ...
Kane Innovations, manufacturer of security screens, detention products and architectural railings, has announced its acceptance into the exclusive TIGER Drylac U.S.A., Inc. family of Approved Applicators. With this distinctive approval ...
Tags: security screens, detention products, metal building products
Genesco Inc. reported earnings slid 29.3 percent in its first quarter to $9.9 million, or 42 cents a share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 51 cents per share, falling well short of Wall Street's consensus estimate of ...
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BASF has opened a new Agricultural Research Station in Loni Kand, Pune, India. This new research and development (R&D) center will focus on global agricultural research on herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, as well as on solutions ...
Russian food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzo has imposed a temporary ban on meat product imports from ten processing plants in Brazil. The agency said that the processing plants in Brazil have failed to comply with phytosanitary measures, ...
NXP Semiconductors N.V. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands has agreed to sell its RF Power business for $1.8bn to Jianguang Asset Management Co Ltd (JAC Capital, a subsidiary of China state-owned investment company JIC Capital). NXP's RF Power ...
Tags: RF Power Business, JAC
Praedium, the Spanish investment Group which owns Nylstar, a producer of polyamide yarns and fabrics, has acquired acrylic fibre manufacturer Montefibre Hispania SA. Praedium has invested €2 million to acquire a 90 per cent stake in ...
Tags: Praedium, Acrylic Fibre
S3 Group of Dublin, Ireland (an independent supplier of RF and mixed-signal IP and tailored silicon solutions to service operators, OEMs and semiconductor vendors) has made available what is claimed to be the first fully integrated, ...
Tags: RFIC, Single-Conversion Radio