According to the latest estimates, by the year 2050 there will be about 9.2 billion people living on the Earth – around 2 billion more than today. In order to be able to secure food supplies in the light of this rapid increase, ...
Tags: Hohenstein, Cultivation, Textiles
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. announced the pricing of three series of senior unsecured notes for an aggregate principal amount of $1.5 billion. Of these notes, $300 million will mature in August 2024, were priced to yield and will bear interest ...
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Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. announced the pricing of three series of senior unsecured notes for an aggregate principal amount of $1.5 billion. Of these notes, $300 million will mature in August 2024, were priced to yield and will bear interest ...
Tags: Bed Bath&Beyond, Notes, Textile
The five units of National Jute Manufacturers Corporation Ltd. (NJMC), namely, Kinnisson, Khardah, National, Union and Alexandra; and the Bird Jute & Exports Ltd. (BJEL) have been declared sick in the state of West Bengal during the last 10 ...
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria have combined two semiconductor materials, each consisting of a layer just three atomic thick, to create a new structure that holds promise for a new kind of solar ...
Tags: Thin-film PV, Electrical, Electronics
The U.S. cotton crop forecast for 2014 was raised sharply in July to 16.5 million bales and is projected nearly 3.6 million bales above 2013. Along with an increase in planted area reported in the June Acreage report, the cotton crop ...
Tags: Cotton Production, cotton crop
SurePure, South Africa-based firm involved in turbid liquid photopurification, has announced the benefits of using its patented photopurification technology in the South African dairy market. Local firm Oaksprings Dairy, which has been ...
Tags: SurePure, photopurification, Food
Deckers Outdoor Corporation a global leader in designing, marketing, and distributing innovative footwear, apparel and accessories, announced financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2014. First Quarter Fiscal Year 2015 ...
Empire Brewing Company in the US will receive federal funding from the Senate to expand its operations in Central New York. As part of the expansion, the brewery plans to establish a new bottling plant in Madison County, as well as a new ...
Tags: Empire Brewing, federal funding, Agriculture
LondonMetric Property Plc announces that the Metric Income Plus Limited Partnership (MIPP), its joint venture with Universities Superannuation Scheme has exchanged contracts to acquire Trostre South Retail Park in Llanelli from Benesco, a ...
Tags: MIPP, Trostre South Retail Park, Auto Parts
There were 55.06 million tablets shipped globally in the second quarter of 2014, decreasing 4.5% on quarter but increasing 17.9% on year, according to Digitimes Research. The shipments consisted of 14.1 million iPads, down 10% on ...
Tags: Tablets, Electronics
U.S. farmers have planted a whale of a soybean crop this year, and if that crop reaches fruition, it'll keep the bears fed for some time, analysts and traders say after soaking up Monday's USDA Quarterly Grain Stocks and June Acreage ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Soybean, Corn
Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has formed a strategic partnership with Rudolph Technologies Inc of Flanders, NJ, USA, which provides defect inspection, process control metrology, and data analysis systems and software. The ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Switzerland-based Syngenta has signed an agreement with Sweden-based food and agriculture group Lantminnen to acquire its German and Polish winter wheat and winter oilseed rape (WOSR) breeding and business operations. Syngenta noted that ...
Tags: Winter Wheat
Global 2014/15 cotton production is projected to decline 2 percent from a year ago to 115.9 million bales; lower expected crops in several major cotton-producing countries more than offset increases in the United States, Brazil, and Turkey. ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton production