The Dow Chemical Company's Performance Packaging business has launched new innovation center, Pack Studios, which provides packaging solutions through a global network of labs, experts and testing equipment. According to the company, Pack ...
Tags: Innovation Center, Packaging
The U.S. skills shortage will be far less of a problem than many people believe in the short term, and it is unlikely to prevent a resurgence in U.S. manufacturing in the next few years, according to a report by The Boston Consulting Group ...
Industry figure Howie Cohen was remembered at a service in Erie, Colo., Saturday, where family and friends laughed and cried as stories of Cohen's generosity, enthusiasm and loving spirit were shared. Industry attendees included Gene ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Americas Styrenics has declared force majeure on polystyrene resin after a power outage at its plant in Torrance, Calif. The Sept. 15 outage was "a total power failure," PS business director Tim Barnette said in a Sept. 17 statement. ...
Tags: Polystyrene, Styrenics
Destination XL Group, the leading retailer of men's XL apparel, has opened a new Destination XL store in Texas: located at The Fountains at Farah, 8889 Gateway Boulevard West in El Paso, TX. The DXL store is a new one-stop-shop that caters ...
Tags: Men's Retailer, Apparel
The propane industry has set its sights on that symbol of American middle-class achievement: the lawn mower. Blame it in part on the natural-gas drilling boom, which has left distributors scrambling to find new ways to increase demand for ...
Tags: Lawn Mowers, Tools, Hardware, propane
US spot ethylene was hovering at three-month low levels Friday, trading midday as low as 51.50 cents/lb MtB Williams pipe for September delivery on the back of what market sources said was improved availability. Recent unplanned ...
U.S. oil prices declined Friday, continuing to pull back from a mid-week rally sparked by the Federal Reserve's surprise decision to continue its easy money policies, while concerns over Middle East supply disruptions continued to fade ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Industry veteran Robert Kirchmeyer joined Rooms To Go earlier this year as senior merchant. Kirchmeyer is handling general merchandising, buying and marketing for the Top 100 company's Southeast and Texas markets, working out of its ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
NICA is expanding its high school mountain bike racing league into Georgia. The Peach State joins nine other NICA leagues — Southern California, Northern California, Colorado, Utah, Texas, New York, Minnesota, Arizona and Tennessee. ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
A foursome of clean energy companies have teamed up to form Eagle LNG Partners, which will expand the growing network of liquefied natural gas fuelling stations in the US. The new organization will develop regional LNG projects to meet ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Clean Energy
ConAgra Foods is recalling PF Chang's Home Menu Pork and Leek Dumpling frozen appetizer, as the product may contain crustacean shellfish (shrimp) and fish (pollock), which are not mentioned on the labeling. Recalled product includes ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, shellfish
California-based national insurance distribution company Confie Seguros has reached a definitive agreement to purchase the retail distribution arm of Affirmative Insurance Holdings, a non-standard personal automobile insurance policies ...
Tags: Confie Seguros, insurance
Texas Instrument Product Engineer David Zhang shares insights on LED color tuning technology in a recent blog post. As Tim Sullivan indicated in an earlier blog as well, LED lighting is a relatively new technology. Engineers that used to ...
Tags: LED color tuning PWM technology, LED, Lights, Lighting
Speakeasy Ales & Lagers, a US-based brewer, has entered into an exclusive statewide distribution agreement with Beverage Distributors, a division of Summit Beverage, to distribute its products in Colorado. Starting this month, the ...
Tags: Speakeasy Ales, Beverage