A team of six recent college graduates has come up with an innovative way to prevent functional finish chemistries from entering the environment by using tons of US Army textiles destined for landfills to make high end bags. Led by the ...
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Universal Technical Institute (UTI) has formalized an agreement with General Motors Co. (GM) to develop a 12-week elective training program for UTI students. The program will first be available at UTI's Avondale campus. UTI provides ...
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US-based supplier and manufacturer of biodegradable food packaging and plastic bags Trellis Earth Products said that the company will relocate its manufacturing operations from China to Rochester, New York. About $8.3 million will be ...
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UK's Space Launchpad initiative, a competition which rewards innovative early stage companies, has selected Interasight, which uses space technology to detect contaminants in food. The Space Launchpad competition is being run by the UK ...
AxFlow, distributors of the world renowned and original Waukesha external circumferential piston pump have added the new range of Waukesha Universal Centrifugal pumps to their product portfolio. With seventeen model available, giving ...
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Ford employees displaced by the impending closure of the company’s Victorian manufacturing plants will benefit from an additional $25.1 million thanks to fresh support pledged by the car maker and the Federal Government. In a joint ...
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MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, today announced that Acer Inc. has selected MediaTek quad-core solutions to power its first "phablet", the Liquid S1, and ...
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Blackboard Inc. has launched TipTxt, a two-way texting service that encourages students to confidentially notify school officials of activity related to bullying or school safety, and will offer the service for free to all K-12 schools and ...
Wolverhampton City Council has announced it will save £3.4m over the next two years by selecting UNIT 4's Agresso Local Government ERP platform. Underpinning the council's five-year "FutureWorks" modernisation programme - which is ...
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The creator of popular open-source database MySQL, Michael "Monty" Widenius, wants to see the now-Oracle-owned product disappear from the earth within the next five years" - displaced by his own alternative, MariaDB. Speaking to Computing ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is pleased to announce that more than 30 of the world’s most respected companies, ranging from banks and retail corporations to architecture firms and technology companies, are showing their ...
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Oracle and managed services provider ServiceKey have come to a proposed settlement of an intellectual-property lawsuit Oracle filed against the company last year. Oracle sued ServiceKey in February 2012, alleging that it and another ...
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BISSO MARINE, LLC, a premier provider of energy and maritime support services, is pleased to announce the acquisition of three offshore construction assets: the 800 ton capacity derrick barge, Ex-IOS 800; the combination derrick laybarge ...
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Global shipments for motion control products fell by 7.7% in first quarter 2013, according to new statistics released by the Motion Control Assoc. (MCA), the industry's trade group. "Despite the low numbers in first quarter 2013, we still ...
AmWINS Group Benefits, a wholesale distributor of employee benefits and professional services, has introduced a voluntary benefits practice, aimed to provide supplemental benefits to professionals and their clients. In addition to working ...