When tropical storm “Karen’ and typhoon ‘Fitow’ failed to deliver the expected punch to cotton areas in the US and China over the weekend, the market quickly relinquished some of its weather premium when trading ...
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Pioneering technology developed by AkzoNobel's Sikkens paint brand has helped power the Dutch Nuna7 solar vehicle to victory in this year's World Solar Challenge. Staged between Darwin and Adelaide in Australia, the 3,000km race - which ...
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Urban cycling is showing strong signs of growth throughout this South American country prompting Shimano to once again sponsor Shimano Fest Argentina. Nicolás Muszkat, Shimano's sales manager for Latin America (except Brazil), said ...
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Mobile networks have been left outraged at Ofcom's decision to increase the fees that they should pay for mobile spectrum that they have acquired. The communications regulator published a consultation on revising annual licence fees for ...
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The NHS has selected US developer Basho's open source database Riak to underpin its efforts to rebuild its Spine infrastructure. The new project, dubbed Spine2, will replace the existing infrastructure that was implemented as part of the ...
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US-based drug discovery and development firm, Heptares Therapeutics has delivered the first stabilised G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) called 'StaR' to MorphoSys for antibody discovery as part of their antibody therapeutics alliance. ...
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Stevia First, a California-based agribusiness firm, focused on production of stevia sweetener, has signed a retail distribution and marketing support agreement with Vancouver, Canada-based GAB Innovations. GAB Innovations is a distributor ...
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BATEXPO 2013, the country's largest garments export fair, kicked off on Thursday. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the annual three-day expo, hosted by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, at Sonargaon ...
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After years of growth in a row, Chinese medium and heavy truck market suffer dramatic decline since the second half of 2012. The decline rate outnumbers 30%. Is it a cold winter or a rational fall? People hold different opinions on it. ...
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Valve, the company behind the popular Steam games website and portal, has released the technical specifications of its Steambox, a games console intended to take the popular service from the desktop PC to the living room. Valve started ...
TricorBraun, a leading packaging provider of rigid packaging and engineering solutions, announces that it led the packaging commercialization for Hello Products, the first ever line of seriously friendly oral care. TricorBraun, along with ...
Adam Gendell,iproject manager at GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition -- Packaging Digest, 10/1/2013 12:52:00 PM The way we think about sustainability and packaging today has come quite a long way from where it used to be. What ...
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Challenge: For nearly 15 years, KDV Label used a custom-built enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. But, as the market grew and KDV expanded its diverse product portfolio, the pieced-together ERP system's limitations had a growing, ...
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When a tote-carrying iBOT (at left) arrives at a pick station, it tilts forward into an ergonomic-friendly position for the human picker.Many executives running high-throughput distribution centers face a growing logistics challenge - the ...
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High-strength steel in the automobile industry has been more widely used, which makes the car to further reduce manufacturing costs. The reason is that the use of high-strength steel assembly reduces the car number of links in the ...
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