The government of Egypt has decided to buy wheat from France and Russia at an average price of $273.94 per tonne, country’s General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) stated. The country has signed contracts to import 240,000t ...
Tags: Wheat, Agriculture
The European Parliament has completed the last stage in the process to grant the Philippines Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) that will provide duty free entry to the EU for some of the most important Philippine exports, ...
Eltex of Sweden, a leading manufacturer of stop-motion equipment for textile machines, has selected International Business Systems (IBS), a leading global integrated ERP and supply chain solutions provider, as its strategic partner to build ...
Tags: ERP System, textile machines, food handling, Textile
Swedish vehicle maker Scania and Stockholm based Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) are planning to test wirelessly charged electric-hybrid city bus in Sdertlje, Sweden. The company aims to replace combustion engines with different types ...
Tags: electrification technologies, electric-hybrid city bus, Auto
Samsung is now plotting to update the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 2 handsets with the recently-released Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system. Samsung Finland’s website has published a table featuring list of devices in line for the ...
Tags: Samsung, Consumer Electronics
POC, Volvo and Ericsson will present an innovative safety technology connecting drivers and cyclists for the first time ever at International CES in Las Vegas Jan. 6-9. The technology consists of a connected car and helmet prototype that ...
Tags: cycling, skiing, outdoor sports, Sporting Goods
Tokyo-based Showa Shell Sekiyu subsidiary Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – says that construction has started on a 15MW solar power plant on a ...
RAL COLOURS has been honored by the jury of the German Design Ward with the distinction Special Mention for the book COLOURS FOR HOTELS in the category “books & calendars”. COLOURS FOR HOTELS is one of four books from the ...
Tags: Design Award, Furniture
UK retailers have welcomed a historic and landmark European agreement to cap the anti-competitive cost of processing debit and credit card payments (interchange fees). According to the BRC – whose members have long campaigned ...
Tags: credit card, Payment Systems, Furniture
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Friday its preliminary determinations in the antidumping (AD) investigations of steel nails from Korea, Malaysia, Oman, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The DOC has calculated the following preliminary ...
In recognition of the importance of sustainable parking facilities and practices to the development of sustainable communities, the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI), the certification body for the U.S. Green Building ...
Tags: parking, architecture, engineering, technology, Construction
BASF’s Coatings division started up a new Netzsch LMZ25 beadmill at its site in Deeside, UK. The modern mill will be used to manufacture intermediate pigment pastes in the PVC plastisol production process. The beadmill replaces a Cox ...
Tags: grinding system, precoated steel, aluminum panels, Construction
Mechanical and plant engineering firm Dürr has recently deployed its hi-tech EcoDryScrubber solution in the highly competitive Japanese market. The EcoDryScrubber is environmentally-friendly and leverages dry separation to capture and ...
Canadian restaurant company MTY Food Group’s subsidiaries MTY Tiki Ming Enterprises and MTY Franchising USA have acquired the assets of Manchu Wok, Wasabi Grill & Noodle and SenseAsian restaurants. Valued at $7.9m, this transaction ...
Tags: restaurants, Agriculture
A frozen computer is frustrating, but a frozen touchscreen in an automobile is a much bigger deal. That’s why engineers push the touchscreen buttons on the Buick IntelliLink infotainment system more than 2 million times every week, ...
Tags: gas station, frozen touchscreen, Auto