Johns Manville (JM) is planning to invest €32 million in a state-of-the-art polyester spunbond production line at its facility in Berlin, Germany. The new production line, which is scheduled to start in 2015, will use newly developed ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
US chocolate manufacturer Hershey has expanded its Learn to Grow program to Nigeria in partnership with IDH and Source Trust to train farmers to grow certified cocoa, which will be used by Hershey in its products worldwide. The Hershey ...
Tags: Sustainable Cocoa, Food
Medtronic's Interventional Spine division has signed a three-year agreement to promote Amgen's Prolia (denosumab) to orthopedic and spine specialists in the US. Prolia is approved in the US to treat postmenopausal women with osteoporosis ...
A surge in demand for Soraa’s full visible spectrum GaN on GaN™ LED MR16 lamps has led the company to appoint two new leaders to its sales organization—George Stringer and Nick Farraway. George joins the company as Senior ...
Tags: Soraa, LED Technology, GaN
Silicon Valley veteran Diane Greene, one of the co-founders of VMware, is returning to the industry with a new start-up called Datrium, a company that is only now emerging from "stealth mode". Datrium, according to Greene, will provide an ...
Yunique Solutions, creator of YuniquePLM product lifecycle management software, announces the launch of YuSnap mobile app. Specifically developed for iOS devices, YuSnap enables collaborators to snap photos and instantly synchronize them ...
Tags: Mobile APP, APP, Textile
Hooker Furniture is restructuring its sales management, with Ray Harm, senior vice president of sales, leading a team of three vice presidents who will each manage a geographic sales region. "We're pleased to announce a more unified sales ...
Glass LLC, glass pioneers in the Middle East and wholly-owned by Dubai Investments PJSC [DI], announced on Thursday that its coating lines, comprising subsidiaries Emirates Glass LLC [EGL] and Saudi American Glass, have won projects worth ...
Tags: glass, Construction, Decoration
US-based Abbott has agreed to buy a stent maker and an eye surgery systems manufacturer in two separate deals, worth about $710m, as part of its strategy to expand its medical device business. Illinois-based Abbott agreed to purchase ...
Tags: Stent Maker, Ophthalmic Device
Purolite, a manufacturer of ion exchange, catalyst, adsorbent and specialty resins, and Codexis, a producer of enzymes, have partnered to develop and commercialize immobilized transaminase enzymes for use in the production of ...
Tags: Transaminase Enzymes, Medicine
Chinese government officials agreed to crack down on software and other piracy and to take steps to ensure that state-owned organizations use legal software. The commitments, reached during negotiations with U.S. government ...
Tags: Software
Cree has added to its residential-targeted LED retrofit lamp family with a BR30, while Soraa appoints execs, MaxLite expands its engineering department, and Dialog closes iWatt acquisition. Cree Lighting has announced a 9.5W BR30 LED lamp ...
Tags: Cree, BR30, Lights&Lighting
US-based Kajima Associates/Architects & Engineers, PC (KA/AEPC) has secured a contract from Japanese firm Yokohama Tire (YTC) to design its new commercial tire manufacturing plant in West Point, Mississippi. Under the deal, the KA/AEPC ...
The apparel retailers in the US and the EU are aiming at safety in Bangladesh readymade garments (RMG) factories although they have adopted different initiatives to ensure safety in the clothing firms of the country. The two strong ...
Tags: RMG Units, apparel retailers
US-based Medtronic has introduced its CD Horizon Solera Spinal System Sagittal Adjusting Screw (SAS), which could be used in the surgical correction of complex spinal conditions. The SAS system is the company's fifth-generation spinal ...
Tags: Medtronic, Spinal Conditions