Spreading salt on roadways is still the most cost-effective tool for preventing death, injury, and property damage from winter traffic accidents around the world. In 2011, highway departments in the U.S. alone spread 19.6 million tons ...
Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. Weekly export sales were lower than expected, but still more than what's needed to meet USDA projections and it was a good week for shipments. Around ten to fifteen percent of ...
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Flooded by orders in the first quarter of 2014 and upbeat about business for the second quarter, Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers will inaugurate expansion plans earlier than originally scheduled. Industry executives point out that ...
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Hiwin Technologies Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Eric Chuo announced at the company's Jan. 17 yearend banquet that the manufacturer of ballscrews will see sales of intelligent robots more than double this year over 2013 ...
Tags: ballscrews, robotic, precision-machinery, automation system
The whole concept of servicing satellites in space is just so crazy that with the very rare exception of bajillion dollar pieces of hardware like Hubble, satellites just aren't designed to be repaired or refueled. They get put into orbit, ...
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Toyota Australia has announced plans to stop car production in the country by the end of 2017 and operate as a national sales and distribution company. This move will cease the local manufacturing of the Camry, Camry Hybrid and Aurion ...
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The ballast compatible LED T8 has received some traction lately for it offers a direct, rewiring-free replacement to the fluorescent T8 lamp. Many buyers have been attracted to the tube and its promise of zero retrofitting labor. However, ...
A near-doubling of the market for cwas unable to help the computer-related storage industry in 2013, which slid 5% in shipments because of continuing contractions in the hard-disk drive and optical disk drive segments, according to IHS. ...
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The bedding industry posted modest gains for 2013, with units increasing by 1.5% and dollars climbing by 2.1%, according to preliminary figures released by the International Sleep Products Assn. The figures showed the innerspring segment ...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (Agriculture.com)--With little movement, the CME Group corn and soybeans ended higher Monday. At the close, the March corn futures contract closed 2 1/4 cents higher at $4.31. The March soybean futures contract finished ...
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Google has exited the smartphone manufacturing business and shored up Android's legal defenses in the smartphone patent wars in a single week. The technology giant sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo in a US $12.5-billion deal on Wednesday ...
Russia's gasoline and naphtha exports rose in January, as the cheaper ruble versus the US dollar made export netbacks more attractive, trading sources said. According to Energy Ministry figures, 384,370 mt of gasoline were exported in ...
Wheat futures closed mixed on Friday, marking the first time in seven weeks a nearby contract closed higher than the previous week. Stronger export demand for U.S. supplies combined with cold temperatures that threaten winter wheat ...
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Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting that begins Tuesday. The most active gold contract for February delivery fell 0.9 U. S. dollar, or 0.07 ...
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