3M has reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.81 per share, an increase of 11.7 percent versus the fourth quarter of 2013. Sales grew 2.0 percent year-on-year to $7.7 billion. Organic local-currency sales grew 6.3 percent with acquisitions ...
Tags: income margins, shareholders, Construction
PPG Industries’ packaging coatings business has announced that it will feature a new generation of coatings for the protection of monobloc aerosol cans and aluminum and plastic tubes during the Aerosol and Dispensing Forum in Paris, ...
Nearly 15 years ago a number of industry players—manufacturers, distributors, retailers, contractors, software providers and others—got together and decided to start the process of bringing the industry’s technology into ...
Tags: B2B Web Services, distributors, retailers, contractors, Construction
Medtronic as of Monday expected to complete its $48 billion merger with Covidien—after clearing its final hurdle with the Irish High Court's sanctioning of the deal. Bloomberg dubbed the merger the biggest inversion ever, while ...
Teleflex Medical OEM Wayne, PA Teleflex Medical OEM, a global leader in medical suture and fiber technology, announces a portfolio of highly-specialized capabilities for delivering innovative, fiber-based solutions to medical device ...
Jeffrey Picard, batch maker at PPG Industries’ industrial coatings manufacturing facility in Mount Vernon, Illinois, helped obtain a PPG Industries Foundation grant for $1,000 for Irvington Grade School. School Superintendent David ...
Tags: industrial coatings, manufacturing facility, Construction
The Adidas Group has again been recognized as an employer of choice in Germany and China. The German magazine Focus has this year again named the Adidas Group as the Top Employer in Germany. The Group thus maintains its top ranking in the ...
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One of the best moves Floors and More ever made was a year into the company’s life when its founders Dan and Brenda Billingsley decided to take their tile store from a city address to its current location on Interstate 30, a direct ...
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Recently, JAC and Egypt distributor carried out the service month campaign in Cairo and Alexander, and there were 112 customers participated in the campaign. During the campaign, JAC staffs sent the filters, solved the customers’ ...
Johnson & Johnson’s fourth-quarter medical device sales fell by 4.7%, to $6.6 billion, with the biggest drop (7.7%) in the U.S., the company announced this week. Total fourth-quarter sales were down 0.6% year-over-year, to $18.3 ...
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BASF plans to invest up to €56 million in the expansion of its Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) value chain over the next four years. PVP is a polymer which is used in diverse industries, for example the pharmaceutical or the personal and ...
Tags: binding properties, PVP market, Construction
Kitchens and bathrooms are a major focal point in 21st century home design. And no wonder! The modern trend is to transform these once-humble rooms into highly personal spaces that nurture body and soul. With this end in mind, we're seeing ...
Tags: Kitchen, Bathroom, Construction
UK based packaging manufacturer Benson Group will be organising Theatre of Food at Packaging Innovations 2015 which will be attended by Masterchef 2010 Dhruv Baker. The show will also have a team of designers displaying their expertise ...
Tags: carton packaging designs, Beverage, Whiskeys, Agriculture
BASF showcases chemistry’s contribution at the BAU trade fair from January 19-25 in Munich. In hall A6 booth 303 the company presents numerous solutions including products to raise the energy efficiency of buildings. Other exhibits ...
Tags: flooring solutions, grouts, Construction
Packaging firm Vetroplas has launched a new range of tubes using in-mould labelling technology in the UK. The tubes have been designed by the company's Franco-Spanish tube manufacturing partner CTL/Tuboplast. With this launch, ...