The last installment in this three-part series tackles the challenges faced by makers. Shenzhen represents more than 70 percent of Guangdong province's lighting products. The bulk of the latter's LED light shipments of $3.81 billion ...
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Automated Benefits, a provider of cloud-based claims technology for the insurance industry, has reported revenues of $4.6m for the second quarter of 2012, up 128% from $2m during the comparable period last year. Net loss for the latest ...
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South Africa-Technical production company Blond Productions supplied Robe Robin MMX Spots and 600E Beam moving lights to a new games show,Musiek Trivia,recorded at ZSE Studios in Johannesburg. They were asked to come up with a visual ...
More than $4 billion per year will be invested for plants to convert conventional and unconventional gas into liquids. These liquids will be used for fuel and chemicals. This is the latest forecast in Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets ...
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South African CIGS spin-off PTIP orders €7m of equipment from partner Singulus Singulus Technolgies AG of Kahl am Main, Germany, which makes production equipment for the Optical Disc and Solar sectors, says that Photovoltaic ...
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The packaging group reported a 74% jump in operating profits to €354m in the first-half of the year, driven by a strong performance from its Europe and international division. In its corrugated division, Mondi said that underlying ...
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Swiss food and dairy giant Nestle has opened two production plants in South Africa. The facilities, based in the town of Babelegi in Gauteng province, will manufacture Milo and Cheerios breakfast cereals and Maggi noodles. This will be ...
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Nestle's share price increased this morning (9 August) as the Kit-Kat maker booked an increase in first-half profit and reaffirmed its full-year guidance. The Swiss food giant reported an 8.9% increase in earnings of CHF5.12bn (US$5.26bn) ...
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South Africa-The Clay Paky Roadshow kicked off to an overwhelming response in Johannesburg on Monday,30 July 2012 and then went to Durban and Cape Town. Demonstrations were presented by Massimo Bolandrina and Gianluca Breda from ...
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Nestle has opened its first facility in Angola, which it says will act as a "finishing centre" for its Nido milk powder. The CHF16m (US$16.5m) facility in Luanda will eventually be extended to also manufacture products including Nescafe, ...
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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has unveiled its new range of PlayBooks, with the devices being launched in Canada on 9 August, followed by rollouts in the US, Europe, South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Like the ...
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted patent No. 8,232,262 to Ziopharm Oncology's palifosfamide (ZIO-201). The patent covers palifosfamide compositions, formulations, methods of use and methods of manufacture, which now ...
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IBM announced a collaboration agreement with the University of Mauritius to help meet the demand for Computer Science skills in the Indian Ocean island region. The joint academic initiative will provide technology and training resources ...
The chief executive of Paperlinx, Toby Marchant, has resigned from the troubled paper company following further sales of its overseas operations and the completion of an extensive strategic review. "We have reached a major turning point ...
Robe moving lights have been specified and installed at the fabulous new Soweto Theatre,a 150 million ZAR project bringing a thriving new venue,arts and cultural space to the already buzzing Jabulani district of Soweto in Gauteng,South ...
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