With the success of its Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education (PRIME) initiative, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation continues working to re-tool the pipeline for technically skilled workers. The ...
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Software giant Microsoft has caved in to public pressure and will now allow buyers of Office 2013 to transfer their software licence to other PCs. The decision follows uproar over the draconian ratcheting up of software licensing terms by ...
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PureCircle, a US-based producer and marketer of stevia products, is set to commercialize its latest stevia product - high purity Reb D. This move comes after PureCircle's Reb D received self-affirmed GRAS status following an elaborated ...
Cree LED Bulb Breaks $10 Price Barrier and Works Better than a Light Bulb DURHAM, NC -- March 5, 2013 — Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) introduces a game-changing series of LED bulbs at a retail price point that gives consumers a reason to ...
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Russian steelmaker Severstal has stated that it hopes to see increased steel demand in 2013 on the back of construction and infrastructure projects in Russia. Although the fragile economic environment will keep pressure on steel prices ...
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Shell's Nigeria unit may be forced to shut down completely its key Nembe Creek oil pipeline in the Niger Delta following repeated attacks on the facility by thieves siphoning crude, the chairman of Shell companies in Nigeria, Mutiu Sunmonu, ...
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UK natural gas for same-day delivery rose to 108 pence/therm Monday morning -- a price the market has not closed above since 2006 -- due to unplanned North Sea outages. Stormy weather caused a failure in the Norwegian power grid system ...
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Research by accounting software provider MYOB reveals the economic confidence and overall business outlook of small to medium business operators (SMEs) is finally on the rise. The March 2013 MYOB Business Monitor found over one quarter of ...
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Guy Kawasaki, venture capitalist and former Apple chief evangelist, announced this week that he has taken on advisory work for Motorola Mobility - which is owned by rival Google. The well-known author and tech guru said in a brief posting ...
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US-based biopharmaceutical company Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals has closed a $10.5m Series A financing round from Brock Securities with Gilford Securities as a participator. The firm is planning to invest the fund in its Phase I clinical ...
Propelled by rising demand in North America’s shale for oil country tubular goods, Russian United Metallurgical Company (OMK) was to celebrate the opening ceremony for its new pipe manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas, US with ...
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US spot monthly natural gas prices for March increased by 12 cents, or 3.7% on average, to $3.35/MMBtu, compared with the previous month's $3.23/MMBtu average, Inside FERC's Gas Market Report said Friday. The NYMEX March gas futures ...
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The NYMEX April natural gas futures contract settled 5.2 cents higher at $3.486/MMBtu Thursday on the back of a US Energy Information Administration storage withdrawal number that was above expectations and new data indicating a decrease in ...
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The European Union's top climate change official said Thursday that President Barack Obama can show his commitment to climate change action by rejecting TransCanada's plan to build the Keystone XL pipeline. "I think that would be an ...
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On March 1, Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Angang Steel Co. (Ansteel) announced that 5,000 mt of its X80M thick pipeline steel plate have been delivered from Bayuquan port in Liaoning to Tianjin port, marking the completion of ...
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