Hood Packaging has announced its intention to shut down its Burlington, Ontario, plastic film plant in Canada. The plant closure, which will affect 65 workers, is expected to take place by 1 October 2013. Its production will be ...
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CALGARY, Alta. - May 28 may have been a significant date in Canadian trucking history. That was when Shell fired a major shot in what many think is a fuel revolution, unveiling to the public the first of its commercial LNG refuelling ...
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Hub International Insurance has announced that its dedicated trucking insurance operation is now fully operational. In 2012, Hub noticed that the trucking industry grew at two times the speed of total U.S. employment. The company felt ...
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The International Monetary Fund has lowered its oil price forecasts to $100.09/barrel in 2013 and $95.36/b in 2014. In April, the IMF forecast that oil prices would average $102.60/b this year and fall back to $97.58/b in 2014. However, ...
Formosa Plastics USA has lifted force majeure declarations on its output of high molecular weight film polyethylene and polypropylene, company spokesman Steve Rice said Monday. The company issued the force majeure declaration on all of ...
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Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling ...
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A one-of-a-kind solar-powered aircraft completed a two-month journey across the United States at just after 11pm EDT Saturday evening (3am GMT Sunday) when it landed at New York's JFK Airport. The landing came several hours earlier than ...
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Windows 8.1 will be made available for RTM - release to manufacturing - during late August. The announcement was made by Windows chief marketing officer Tami Reller during a keynote at Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) ...
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Jerry Wright, president and owner of AAA Glass in Fort Worth, Texas, says that the Texas glass industry has already come to terms with the idea of immigration reform and stands ready for whatever form of it eventually becomes the law of the ...
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Glazier Foods, a US-based food distribution firm, has relocated its food distribution center from Farmers Branch distribution facility to Coppell, a move that expands the company's business. This move is in line with the company's ...
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It’s reported that Austria-based Voestalpine has commissioned Austrian plant maker Siemens and US-based technology provider Midrex to build a direct reduced iron (DRI) plant in Texas. The designed annual capacity of the DRI plant is ...
Texas-based private-equity firm TPG Capital is said to be considering signing an agreement to acquire Envision Pharmaceutical Holdings, an Ohio-based pharmacy-benefits manager (PBM), for an undisclosed sum. Sources familiar with the ...
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You probably wouldn't expect the topic of human growth hormone (hGH) to cause an uproar at one of the most prestigious cosmetic dermatology conferences in the world. But at the International Academy of Cosmetic Dermatology's 9th World ...
Headworks International Inc. is moving its headquarters as of 8 July 2013. The new premises will be at 11000 Brittmoore Park Drive, Houston, Texas 77041 USA. Headworks International Inc. provides wastewater treatment processes and ...
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Austria-based steelmaker voestalpine has announced that it has signed a supply agreement with Siemens Industry Inc. and its consortium partner Midrex Technologies Inc. for the construction of the new direct reduction iron (DRI) plant to be ...
Tags: Mineral, Siemens, steelmaker