Stranded on the barren red planet Mars with few supplies available, astronaut Mark Watney played by Hollywood actor Matt Damon in The Martian is fighting for survival against harsh natural elements. To sustain himself, Damon’s ...
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When corn is cheap, hogs get plentiful. The annual Pork Powerhouses ranking of the 25 largest producers in the U.S. shows a gain of 128,000 sows in the past year. With two new packing plants set to open in 2017, producers are gearing up to ...
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Bearing, a critical component for contemporary mechanical equipment, finds wide applications in automobile, electromechanics, construction machinery, household appliances, metallurgy and mining machinery, etc. In 2014, global bearing ...
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Not all outdoor LED Displays are created equal. With so many options and features available, choosing the most appropriate one can be challenging. Some LED Display manufactures highlight quality levels while others focus on providing the ...
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Votorantim Metais and its affiliate U.S. Zinc has announced key changes to the company’s leadership team. Rodrigo Daud will serve as chief commercial officer for Votorantim Metais and Tracy Baugh has been promoted to president of U.S. ...
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Cargill is set to invest $111m to transform its ground beef facility in Columbus, Nebraska, to cooked meats facility. This conversion, which will begin in early December this year, will enable the company to produce specific types of ...
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Geotab, a leading global provider of premium-quality, end-to-end telematics technology, today announced the acquisition of one of its most successful partners: Strategic Telecom Solutions (STS). Founded in 2004, STS has amassed more than ...
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Rexam has teamed up with WeCan Solutions to produce aluminium cans for the first ever mobile canning facility in the UK, one of only a handful in Europe. The pioneering service, backed by Rexam, offers onsite canning solutions for craft ...
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Graphic Packaging International, a subsidiary of Graphic Packaging, has acquired the converting assets of Staunton-based Carded Graphics, an award winning printed folding carton producer with a strong regional position in the food, craft ...
Mead Johnson has launched its Enfamil range of products in a new 32 fluid ounce ready-to-use plastic bottle. The bottle comes with an easy-to-grip shape. It ensures accurate proportions due to the formula being premixed, the company ...
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China's economic data for September may show a stabilizing economy but they can't prevent the third-quarter growth sliding to as low as 6.6 percent, said analysts ahead of the data's release starting next week. "We expect the upcoming ...
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IC demand for tablet PCs has been weak prompting more chip suppliers to phase out their tablet-IC businesses, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. The rising popularity of large-size smartphones has had an adverse impact ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) together with analog foundry ...
Tags: Panasonic, CMOS, Semiconductor, wireless communication, automotive radar
BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that one of its key specialized epitaxy customers has committed to an order for about $300,000 of foundry development, to be delivered over the next six months. The customer is developing a ...
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A new Trina Solar-led national standard of "Test method for determining vinyl acetate (VA) content of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer applied in photovoltaic modules - Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA)" (EVA-TGA) has been officially ...
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