In a rare public speech, Google Inc. CEO Larry Page once suggested the tech industry needs "safe places where we can try out new things" without rules or interference. Some people thought he was describing a futuristic fantasy, perhaps a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Google X, Google
New structure will cover the European, Russian, Middle Eastern and African markets under the leadership of its managing director, David Allmark. Mattel has realigned its core European structure to cover the European, Russian, Middle ...
Tags: Toys
Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that it increased its supplies to building contractors in Russia to 3.362 million mt in 2013. This constitutes a 14 percent increase compared to 2012. In the whole of 2013, Severstal Invest's ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel, steel products, Construction Industry
The U.S. manufacturing sector is in the midst of a technology renaissance that has the potential to bring manufacturing work back to North America for years, according to Manufacturing Engineering's annual trends report released with its ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Manufacturing
A particularly mild winter has aided sales at family-owned home department stores Leekes, which has reported a strong performance over Christmas and the new year. The retail business saw an overall 20% increase in visitor numbers across ...
Tags: Bumper Winter, Leekes, sales
British farmer-owned dairy co-operative First Milk and cheese supplier Adams Foods have completed their long-term, strategic, cheese supply partnership. The move comes after the deal received approval from the UK's Office of Fair Trading ...
Tags: First Milk, Adams Foods, Cheese Supply Chain
American automaker Ford Motor is set to invest $168m in moving the production of its all-new 2016 F-650 and F-750 medium-duty trucks from Mexico to Ohio Assembly Plant in Cleveland from early 2015. The investment will be used to retool ...
Tags: Ford, Medium-Duty Truck
Recently, Chinese investors were wooed to invest in India’s promising textile sector at a half-day seminar on “Investing in India’s Textile Sector” in Shanghai. The seminar was well received by the ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Textile
Canada's leading light oil producer Penn West will invest C$900 million ($815 million) in 2014 on its assets in Western Canada, targeting an annual average output of 101,000-106,000 b/d of oil equivalent, CEO Dave Roberts said Friday. ...
Tags: Light Oil Producer, Mineral
RockTenn has entered into an agreement with Simpson Lumber to acquire the latter's Tacoma Kraft paper mill in Tacoma, Washington, for around $343m. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory ...
Tags: Paper Mill, Packaging
Textile giant Mafatlal Industries Limited has plans to further invest in Gujarat units. Mafatlal Industries have till date invested Rs 100 Crores in modernization at Nadiad & Navsari, and now plans for an additional Rs 200 Crores in the ...
Tags: Textile, Mafatlal Industries
The exports of garments and textiles from the Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam surged 44.9 percent year-on-year in February 2014 to reach US$ 1.3 billion, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has reported. In the first two months of the ...
Tags: Garment, Textile Exports, Apparel
The U.S. textile industry has seen a surge in foreign direct investment over the past 8 months. No less than 8 foreign companies have made public announcements over that period to invest more than $700 million in new U.S. textile facilities ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Yarn-Forward Rule
This Editorial appears in the March 10 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Signs are increasing that the nation's economic health is steadily improving. It's not a barnburner, and there is still some ...
Tags: Transportation, Truck
The Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) has signed an agreement for extending 161 billion dong (US$ 7.8 million) to Thien An Thinh Textile and Garment Joint Stock Company for setting up a new textile ...
Tags: Textile Plant, Textile