Following Osram’s announcement last week that the company is to invest EUR 1 billion in a new Malaysia-based plant for LED chips, a leading investor in Osram expressed opposing opinions about Osram’s latest strategy, reported ...
Revolution Lighting Technologies , a leader in advanced LED lighting technology solutions, today announced that its operating division, Energy Source, recently completed two lighting retrofit projects, installing high efficiency LED ...
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Privately held integrated optical communications component and sub-system developer ColorChip of Yokneam, Israel has raised $25m in a round of growth funding. Founded in 2001 by Dr Shimon Eckhouse and professor Shlomo Rushin of the School ...
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Skechers USA Inc. claimed a partial victory Thursday in its patent infringement dispute with Nike Inc.’s wholly-owned subsidiary Converse Inc. relating to the Converse Chuck Taylor shoe. In October 2014, Converse sued Skechers in ...
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Hosted by Stephen Doughty (the Member of Parliament for the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency), an event in the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, has formally launched the Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC), formed at ...
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US-based packaged foods company ConAgra Foods plans to split the company into two independent public companies – with one handling the consumer portfolio of various brands and the other managing its foodservice portfolio of frozen ...
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Americk Packaging has expanded its business with the acquisition of British labels and flexible printer Adare Advantage for an undisclosed amount. Adare Advantage, now branded Americk Advantage, employs 110 production, sales and office ...
Audi and the city of Somerville are planning joint innovations for the city of the future on the east coast of the USA. Audi CEO Rupert Stadler and Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the context of the Smart ...
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As the first true free-range egg producer to be American Humane Certified, the happy egg has joined American Humane Association in a Congressional Briefing on "The Humane Heartland: A Celebration of the Humane Treatment of Farm Animals." ...
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China's steel production capacity is likely to peak in 2016 as capacity is eliminated, gradually outpacing additions, Fitch Ratings has predicted. The rating agency expects China's steel production capacity to increase to about 1.17 ...
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The release of a government report showing the cost of congestion in Australia will balloon by billions of dollars over the coming years serves as a timely reminder to governments to give equal consideration to the movement of freight as is ...
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South African food firm Tiger Brands has withdrawn its financial support to its Nigerian arm Dangote Flour Mills (DFM), after it launched a review of its investment in the pasta and flour maker, which is struggling with losses. Tiger ...
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Australian business magnate Gina Rinehart has purchased Glencoe Station in New South Wales for $30m, to expand her Wagyu beef operation. The Station, which is a 10,000 hectare property in north of Dubbo, is situated 20km away from the ...
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British supplier of specialty plastic, fiber, foam and packaging components Essentra is investing in the expansion of its facility in Newport. As part of the expansion, the company will purchase a 225,000ft2 site adjacent to its existing ...
Sensity Systems, the pioneer of Light Sensory Networks (LSNs), has closed a private funding round of $36 million led by Cisco Investments and includes industry leaders Acuity Brands, GE Ventures and Simon Venture Group (corporate investment ...