The recent landmark currency agreement between Australia and China is good news for Australian manufacturers. Under the agreement, exporters will be able to directly trade the Australian dollar with the yuan and vice versa. The deal, ...
Tags: Currency Deal, Boost Trade
Thanks to CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission in the States) for letting us know about a recall by The Home Depot involving 1000-ft CE Tech riser cable sold in boxes of 1000-ft lengths. The cable is intended to run between floors of ...
Tags: Service, Consumer Electronics
Participants in this year's RTC Viva Bike Vegas Gran Fondo, held in Las Vegas the day after Interbike closes, will be allowed in to the show for part of its final day. Interbike announced the agreement with the Regional Transportation ...
Tags: Interbike, bike, Transportation
66th International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition As the largest and most comprehensive HVACR event, the AHR Expo attracts tens of thousands of attendees from all facets of the industry, including contractors, ...
Tags: Air Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating
Finnish engineering and technology company Metso is all set to supply an OptiConcept M containerboard production line for the Ban Pong mill of Siam Kraft Industry in Ratchaburi, Thailand. The start-up of the machine with an extended scope ...
Adam Gendell, Project Manager, Sustainable Packaging Coalition -- Packaging Digest, 4/1/2013 6:00:00 PM You have probably never heard of a package that is advertised for its superior low acidification potential. It's similarly doubtful ...
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Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/1/2013 5:10:00 PM Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor, Packaging DigestA busy month of traveling and conversations at various industry events got me thinking about some ...
Tags: Packaging, Package, packaging designers
Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) has announced its planned sales volumes of rebar, billet and bloom, beams, and pig iron for the April-June period of 2013. According to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
Posted by Jack Mans -- Packaging Digest, 3/25/2013 12:22:33 PM The U.S. Department of Energy has approved of the first bionic eye for use in the U.S. The creation of this retinal prosthesis stems, in part, from DOE support for a decade of ...
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Canadian Apparel Federation will host a webinar on March 27, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST. This webinar will analyze the current status of the Canadian apparel market and detail the implications of Target, Nordstrom, and the Rack’s entry ...
Tags: Apparel Federation, Apparel, apparel market
More than 2,500 H&M fans lined up for over 12 hours outside of the Chilean flagship store in Costanera Center. The doors opened at 10 in the morning and welcomed the crowd into its two level 2,600 square meter store. Karl-Johan Persson, ...
Tags: fashion, fashion industry, dresses
The runway at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) will once again be the place for established designers, editors, and other VIPs to preview the fashion industry’s most promising young designers when the college presents The ...
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Economies of scale can achieve better price competitiveness for high-quality Thai fabric in international market, Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said during recent meeting of the Thai Cabinet. According to the theory of ...
Tags: fabric competitive, fabric, folk fabrics
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has expanded its optical infrastructure portfolio with five new transimpedance amplifiers (TIA), enabling it to now serve both the ...
Tags: Semiconductor, TriQuint, Optical Fiber
Americans took to the Internet Thursday as tens of thousands signed petitions on sites pleading for Google Reader's life. One of several on the Change.org online petition website had collected more than 63,000 signatures by 1:30 p.m. ET, ...
Tags: Google Reader, Google, Internet