Sophie Mirrabella … ‘strict standards’ One of Australia’s most powerful trade unions, the CFMEU, has backed a Federal Opposition proposal to enforce strict new safety standards on imported goods. Speaking in ...
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Uncertainty surrounds the future of 13,000 food manufacturing jobs today(November 19),as Dutch food manufacturing giant Vion announced plans to sell its UK food businesses to concentrate on what it describes as"core markets"in the ...
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The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) President Cass Johnson praised the decision by the United States government to join the consultations between Mexico and China regarding Chinese textile subsidies. "We are pleased ...
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During a visit to a Youngstown store that specializes in American-and Ohio-made products,U.S.Sen.Sherrod Brown(D-OH)discussed a new effort to boost domestic apparel and textile manufacturing. "Whenever possible,American tax dollars should ...
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Computerworld-WASHINGTON--There's a new television show,"Revolution,"which looks at what happens to society after every piece of complex technology,including power generation,stops working.The reasons for this outage aren't explained. ...
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You remember the iPod.The iPod created jobs,but a majority of those jobs were overseas.Electronics manufacturing jobs are mostly overseas,which helps to keep one million workers at China's Foxconn plants busy. In contrast,the majority of ...
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Lexmark has announced the closure of its struggling inkjet division, with 550 workers in its head office Kentucky plant set to lose their jobs. The layoffs include 350 full-time employees, many in non-manufacturing jobs such as research ...
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The company has already begun to recruit 50 new employees and expects to start production in mid October. Kluft expects to double the number of jobs during the initial term of its lease.''The Kluft and Aireloom brands are unique. ...
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Even with the myriad of obstacles preventing a full-scale recovery for the overall U.S. economy, the design and construction industry appears to have reasons to be at least modestly optimistic in the coming months and into next year. A ...
Plessey Semiconductors has today taken delivery of a CRIUS®II-XL reactor in a 7x6-inch wafer configuration from AIXTRON,as the first part of a multi-million pound investment to create a production line for its new High Brightness ...
LED lighting: call for a coherent European vision 10 Jul 2012 Public consultation on adoption of solid-state lighting calls for more co-ordination at European level. Philips Lumiblade A public consultation on the European ...
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North Yorkshire LCD TV brand Cello Electronics has opened a manufacturing facility in Bishop Auckland,County Durham. The firm has invested 1m Pound in a 45,000 square foot building to house production,storage,showroom,offices and ...
Department of Commerce backs SolarWorld-led complaint in preliminary determination;Dow Corning and Hemlock label decision'devastating'. Suntech PV cell fabrication An investigation by the US Department of Commerce has found that ...
WILLAMINA — The international markets didn't register a ripple, but on April 9, Arnie Swan drove 25 minutes from his home and reported to work at Boise Cascade's veneer plant. He's a new hire, not a worker called back from one of the ...
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It's easier to carve an apple with a knife than an axe. The same goes for manufacturing, where plants are increasingly building things with precise, programmable electric tools instead of machines run on compressed air. Industry groups say ...
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