The top 200 companies enjoy more than 50 percent of the global industrial pump business. Another 5,000 companies average less than $4 million in sales each. According to the McIlvaine Company in Pumps: World Markets the concentration of the ...
Oliver Wyman, the global management consultancy, has launched a new actuarial practice office in Nashville, Tennessee, US, marking the 15th actuarial office in North America, aimed to better serve growing client base needs in the ...
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Sonoco Flexible Packaging has announced an investment of $9.7m in a bid to expand its Morristown, Tennessee facility in the US. The expansion will create 26 new jobs in Hamblen County. Located at 5701 Superior Drive, the Morristown ...
China has produced a supercomputer capable of 54.9 petaflops, more than twice the speed of any system in the U.S., according to a U.S. researcher who was in China last week and learned the details. China's latest system was built with ...
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This weekend's USA Cycling professional road and time trial championships are being held, for the first time in the event's 28-year history, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after many years in Greenville, South Carolina. And Chattanooga's ...
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In October, 2010, China built the world's fastest supercomputer, and three months later President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union speech, said that America was facing a Sputnik moment. Obama renewed calls for higher levels of R&D ...
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Twitter has reached a settlement with Skootle that prohibits the Tennessee-based company from spamming Twitter users' feeds with marketing and other promotional content. The case, which dates back to a lawsuit that Twitter brought against ...
US based automotive parts supplier Van-Rob Manchester will expand its Coffee County facility in the US with an investment of about $16.8m. The manufacturer expects the expansion to support its goal of becoming the top notch location in ...
It's reported that Gerdau is expanding operations near its Knoxville steel mill in Tennessee State in the US. It will add a multi-million-dollar facility at its Knoxville mill in Knoz county, Tennessee to increase its bar capacity by 120000 ...
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US property and casualty insurance broker Keystone Insurers Group has added Denham Agency, an Americus-based insurance agency, as its 14th partner in Georgia, US. Founded in 1984, The Denham Agency serves insurance needs of individuals, ...
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Quest Diagnostics has acquired the toxicology and clinical laboratory business of medical center operator Concentra. Concentra's Advanced Toxicology Network (ATN) laboratory business operates from a laboratory in Memphis, Tennessee, US. ...
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The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bill Hagerty announced Monday that Gerdau will expand into West Knox County. The additional facility in WestBridge Business Park will take steel rebar manufactured ...
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Sterling Insurance has expanded its Critical Condition plan offering in 18 additional US states, marking the availability of the new type of insurance to 31 states. The plan comprises 11 critical illnesses, which includes cancer, stroke, ...
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There is definitely a positive upward trend in residential home building. After years of weak demand for new construction, builders in most regions of the country are finally seeing more activity, bidding more work and signing more ...
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Pennsylvania-based distributor of wholesale tubular steel products Marmon/Keystone announced Wednesday the opening of a Nashville, Tennessee facility. The new metals service center, which officially opened for business on May 6, is located ...
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