As Congress considers a law requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes nationally, debate is heating up over the revenue threshold for triggering collections. The Marketplace Fairness Act, as it's named in both House and Senate ...
Tags: Online Sales, Tax Debate, gross margins
MCEE 2013—a four-shows-in-one meeting place for Canada’s mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) industries—will feature an increased emphasis on energy efficiency, with more products how to manage and control the air we ...
Tags: MCEE 2013, Key Theme, Consumer Electronics
Xylem is enhancing its popular range of high efficiency circulator pumps with the addition of the Lowara Ecocirc XL range, ideal for commercial applications. The new circulator has been designed specifically for applications like ...
Dutch start-up firm Aestech has developed a self-heating pack for semi-liquid baby foods. The pack features milk powder dispenser, water and a baby nipple. It also incorporates self heating packaging and convenient on-the-go packaging. ...
Tags: infant foods, Aestech, baby foods
Oil futures settled higher Wednesday, partially rebounding from Tuesday's sharp selloff on uncertainty in Cyprus, after weekly inventory data from the US Energy Information Administration proved to be unexpectedly bullish. NYMEX April ...
Tags: Oil, Chemicals, Metallurgy
Marc Chenier has been appointed to the position of general manager of Sherbrooke, Que.-based Dettson Industries Inc.—a subsidiary of Group Ouellet Canada Inc. that manufactures residential and light-commercial heating products. ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, light-commercial heating products
Wilo USA has released Stratos Giga, a high-efficiency, single-stage inline centrifugal pump. Stratos Giga is a space-saving inline circulator with ECM technology that is designed for use in hot water heating systems, air conditioning, ...
The Eindhoven-based firm said it has developed the pack for semi-liquid food and it is designed for the on-the-go baby food market. The pack includes a milk powder dispenser, spring water and a ‘baby nipple’. In a statement, ...
Tags: self heating packaging, packaging, Dutch
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, says that a team of students from Inner ...
The Better Sleep Council only asked this question of consumers who don't sleep in separate bedrooms, which is the vast majority of consumers. You will recall that in a recent Selling Sleep report, we noted that 9% of consumers responding to ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
There are three hot topics in the packaging world. The first one is the dispensing cap, which we find mainly on top of a water bottle for inserting a certain dose of vitamins. It is a packaging format which over the last years attracted ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Self-Heating Packaging
Ontario's Electricity Distributors Association (EDA) announced the winners of its annual industry awards, and among the chosen few were: Burlington Hydro, Toronto Hydro, PowerStream, Niagara Peninsula Energy and Horizon Utilities. ...
South Korea's state-run Korea Gas Corp, the world's largest buyer of LNG, said Thursday it imported 34.97 million mt of LNG in 2012, up 2.9% from a year earlier. The state utility said it plans to import 37.90 million mt of LNG in 2013, ...
Crude futures settled higher Thursday, with the ICE April Brent contract bouncing off Wednesday's 2013 lows to expire 90 cents higher at $109.42/barrel. The May contract settled up 72 cents at $108.96/b. NYMEX April crude closed US ...
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Environment conservation is the need of hour. If it is not conserved now then everyone including plants, animals, and human beings have to suffer with its harmful effects. The main cause of increased pollution is industrial waste which is ...