Toluene market showed signs of improvement in Europe in the week ending February 16, 2013. Market was dull since the start of this year. Prices were hovering around US$ 1290-1310/ton FOB Rotterdam in the initial days of January 2013. ...
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Acquisitions and growth in markets outside the EU have helped dairy giant Arla Foods report higher annual sales and profits. The company said today (20 February) its consolidated net profit jumped by more than a third in 2012 to DKK1.9bn ...
Tags: M&A, Emerging Markets, 2012
Europe’s leading online shop for shoes and fashion successfully concluded the business year 2012 and continues to deliver unprecedented growth. With net sales of 1.15 billion EUR Zalando was able to more than double sales compared to ...
Tags: net sales, Fashion Etailer Zalando, 2012
Absorbable surgical adhesives and sealants developer Cohera Medical has obtained $17m in Series D financing through private investors. The capital will be used by the company to expand adoption of its internal surgical adhesive in Germany ...
Tags: adhesives, sealants, surgical adhesive
Blue Belt Technologies has treated the first three US patients for unicondylar knee replacement (UKR), using its NavioPFS orthopedic surgical system. The UKR procedures, performed at the US-based Community Regional Medical Center, ...
Tags: Blue Belt Technologies, UKR, NavioPFS orthopedic surgical system
European industry veteran Andi Schmidt, has joined Hayes Components as its European marketing manager. Schmidt will be working from Garching, a Munich suburb. He has previously worked for SR Suntour, Bionicon and Nicolai. He will be ...
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USA - Orlando-based Alcorn McBride is well positioned for growth in international markets. In the past year, Alcorn McBride has restructured distribution in Asia, partnering with Wincomn in China and Hong Kong, Electori in Japan, Sovico in ...
The Grundfos-initiative Act NOW has become an independent, ‘non-profit’ organisation with 11 equal partners, who wishes to create awareness about energy-efficient solutions. Recently, Act NOW has united its forces with the ...
Tags: Grundfos, Act NOW, non-profit organisation
Photovoltaic inverter design is now seen as the crucial element in solar power development, writes James Turner, and he discusses some of the challenges that can shape PV inverter design. Over the last few years the photovoltaic (PV) ...
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q1 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in 2012 the European Union (EU) automotive sales declined by 8.2 percent year on year, ...
Tags: Automotive, EURFOER, car exports
Pittsburgh-based ALung Technologies has gained Health Canada approval for its Hemolung Respiratory Assist System (RAS), designed for treating patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure including acute respiratory distress syndrome ...
Tags: ALung respiratory dialysis device, minimally invasive device
The European Commission has received a proposal from Google to settle an antitrust investigation into the compny's search engine practices, a Commission spokesman said on Friday. At the same time, an industry organization said it has filed ...
Tags: European Commission, antitrust investigation, antitrust complaint
Sharp provides its customers with the new “LED Evaluation Kit”, an optimized service tool to enable them in future to easily and quickly test the best Mega ZENIGATA LEDs themselves and simulate the use of COB LED arrays in the ...
China has said it will increase its 2015 solar goal by 67 percent, Bloomberg News reports. Government officials say the new target is an attempt to reduce greenhouse gases; the announcement comes as smog in Beijing reached hazardous ...
Tags: Solar Goal, solar target, solar panel
The knitwear cluster in Tirupur, located in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, has managed to overcome the problems posed by the closure of dyeing and bleaching units in the region. The dyeing units were shutdown around two years ...