During their development, adhesives have gained a strong position in more and more production processes. There is hardly any product in our surroundings that does not contain at least one adhesive - be it the label on a beverage bottle, the ...
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The market research firm Ceresana forecasts the global solvent market to earn revenues of about US$33 billion in 2019. The firm highlights the dynamic economic development in emerging countries like China, India, Brazil and Russia, which ...
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Gerresheimer AG, one of the world’s leading partners of the pharma and healthcare industry, today announced that it has acquired the majority shareholding in the Indian company Triveni to further accelerate its growth in the emerging ...
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Lectra’s Board of Directors, chaired by André Harari, reviewed the consolidated financial statements for the first half of 2012, after a limited review by the Statutory Auditors. Mr. André Harari Q2 2011: Orders ...
Four BRIC countries (India, China, Brazil and Russia) and a few other Latin American countries like Mexico have proved to be the 'Knight in Shining Armour' for embattled luxury home textile producers and brands across the world following ...
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Asia Pacific will generate the most cloud traffic by 2016 as compared to North America and Western Europe. The second annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2011-2016) indicates that Asia Pacific will process the most cloud workloads – ...
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Worldwide spending on security is expected to touch the $60 billion mark in 2012, up 8.4 percent from $55 billion in the previous year, according to research company Gartner — this figure will approach $86 billion in 2016. "The ...
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Consumer goods giant Unilever is looking at how it can optimise its global operations using SAP’s HANA in-memory database. The company has been consolidating its SAP systems over the past 20 years and now runs 4 regional systems. ...
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Reuters reported that Chilean manufacturing production surged in October beating expectations and posting its biggest annual gain in 2012 on the back of extra working days and a pick up in already buoyant domestic demand. The government ...
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The Federal Reserve Board reports that industrial production increased 0.4 percent in September after falling 1.4 percent in August. Daniel J. Meckstroth, chief economist for the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation ...
UC RUSAL announced signing MOU with Shandong Xinfa Group, one of China's largest private aluminium companies, detailing the study of future possible cooperation areas including JV in the aluminium industry. The Memorandum was signed at ...
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In the first quarter of 2012, PPR posted €3.3 billion in revenue from continuing operations, up 7.9% on a comparable basis and 15.4% on a reported basis versus first quarter 2011. This strong start to the year was powered by the ...
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Carrefour today (30 August) reported a fall in half-year profits but shares in the French retail giant rose as analysts had expected a steeper decline. The French retail giant booked recurring operating income of EUR769m (US$965.3m), down ...
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The City of Santa Monica’s Resource Recovery & Recycling Division is hosting a textiles collection event on Nov. 17, 2012 at the City Yards, helping you to find a new home for all your unusable clothing, towels, bedding and so much ...
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Consumer products manufacturing company Unilever is all set to develop pyrolysis technology to make it capable to recover fuel from the laminate sachet packaging which is being used for an increasing number of products. According to ...
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