BASF was honored with the Technological Progress Award from Shanghai General Motors Company Ltd (SGM) for the first time. The award recognized BASF's outstanding contributions to the technological progress and local innovation of SGM in ...
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BASF today inaugurated its Research and Development Laboratory and Application Technology Center for Battery Materials in Amagasaki, Japan. The facility, located in the Amagasaki Research Incubation Center (ARIC), is BASF’s first ...
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U.S. wheat ending stocks for 2013/14 are projected 50 million bushels lower as higher expected food use and exports more than offset an increase in projected imports. Imports are raised 10 million bushels as railroad backlogs and other ...
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The global silicon photonics market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate(CAGR)of 24.5%from$88.6m in 2013 to$410.78m in 2020,according to the report'Silicon Photonics Market by Products(Silicon Optical ...
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German sports car manufacturer Porsche has reported sales of 12,225 vehicles in January 2014, a 1.4% increase, compared to the same month in 2013. The growth was driven by the company's 911 models, the third generation of Boxster model ...
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Mercedes-Benz started into the new year with an increase in sales by 15.4%. Worldwide the company delivered 109,477 vehicles to customers, more than in any January before. "After the record year in 2013 we are starting into another year ...
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Post Holdings has completed the takeover of Golden Boy Foods and Dymatize Enterprises in two separate transactions. The acquisitions are in line with the company's efforts to expand into the private label and active nutrition segments. ...
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Polymer Group, Inc. (PGI) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Companhia Providencia Industria e Comercio [Bovespa: PRVI3] ("Providencia"), a Brazilian manufacturer of nonwovens used ...
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This morning represents yet another frigid day in the Arctic saga of the winter of 2014. Yesterday, an intense Arctic cold front plunged south from Canada, dropping temperatures as much as 40 degrees across the Midwest and Plains, ...
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Del Monte Pacific (DMPL), a Singapore-based food and beverage firm, has received approval from the Singapore Exchange to proceed with its proposed takeover of Del Monte Foods' (DMF) Consumer Products business in a $1.67bn deal. In October ...
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After crossing 3,400 miles of the Pacific Ocean last year to inspect a tuna canneryon American Samoa,a U.S.Food and Drug Administration(FDA)inspector asked for copies of some records from the StarKist Co. "Charlie the Tuna,"the company's ...
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Japan's direct-burning crude oil demand for power generation has picked up since late December as a cold spell across the country has increased appetite for loadings into March in the absence of nuclear output, industry and trading sources ...
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In 1984, with only $25,000 in Chinese government funding and a dusty 20-square-metre bungalow as their headquarters, a small group of scientists in Beijing founded a firm called New Technology Developer Inc. Thirty years later, the tech ...
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The De'Longhi Group has reported a 6.7 per cent increase in global revenues for the 2013 calendar year. The company, which markets De'Longhi, Kenwood and Braun appliances, reached consolidated revenues of 1.63 billion euros, which strong ...
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Natus Medical Incorporated (NASDAQ: BABY) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. For the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013, the Company reported revenue of $90.6 million, ...
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