International Speedway Corporation (ISC) and carmaker Chevrolet have joined hands for making the latter a founding partner at Daytona International Speedway (DIS) under the $400m Daytona Rising redevelopment project. The project, set ...
At the start of this year, the United States Department of Commerce conducted a preliminary review of the anti-dumping and countervailing (AD/CVD) measures against Chinese photovoltaic (PV) cell imports for 2012 and reduced the overall ...
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Swiss specialty textile chemicals producer Archroma said it has entered into a senior secured credit agreement that provides for credit facilities totaling to around $515 million. According to an Archroma press release, the credit ...
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American private investment firm Bain Capital has completed acquiring UK-based automobile fluid storage firm TI Automotive. TI Automotive president, CEO and chairman of the board Bill Kozyra, who will go on discharging his current ...
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Menasha Packaging is doubling the space at its preprint unit at Neenah, Wisconsin, in the US, to accommodate a new flexographic printing press for preprinted linerboard. The facility will add 45,500ft2 to its existing area of 94,000ft2. ...
Food distributor Sysco Corporation has called off its proposed merger with US Foods, after the US District Court in Washington, D.C ruled against the $3.5bn deal. Last week, the court issued a preliminary injunction to halt the proposed ...
Pork producer and processor Smithfield Romania has secured $60m in loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to expand its operations in the country. The loan amount will be spent on restructuring its debts and to expand its ...
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Argex Titanium Inc., an emerging producer of high grade titanium dioxide (TiO2), has announced that it has completed work at its Valleyfield Technology Center confirming key hydrometallurgical process innovations for the production of ...
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Multipack has invested in a brand new food processing and packing facility to complement its growing FMCG and retail packaging business. The new facility, based in Sydney's suburb of Ingleburn, is an upgrade of the company's existing food ...
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By the year 2020 the first cylinder housings manufactured from polymer composite materials will be introduced into passenger car and motorcycle engines, replacing the aluminium components currently in use, predicts SBHPP High Performance ...
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China launched a project Wednesday to restore the oldest part of the Great Wall, a stretch in eastern Shandong Province. The first phase of the project covers 18 sections of the "Great Wall of Qi" with a total length of 61 km. It will ...
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Sanko Group, a leading textile firm in turkey, and Isko, a well-known denim manufacturer, have selected Datatex as their core ERP systems provider, implementing it in Sanko and Isko manufacturing facilities, including Isko’s Istanbul ...
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Swedish automotive firm Scania will hand over 147 Euro 6-compliant buses, powered exclusively by gas, to the city of Cartagena in Colombia for Bus Rapid Transport (BRT), the country’s maiden urban transport in South America. Looking ...
Hosiery and knitwear brand Dollar Industries which is is headquartered in Kolkata, will invest Rs 25 crore to set up a new facility at Ludhiana, according to media reports. The company has manufacturing facilities at Kolkata, Tirupur ...
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After spending two years on Beijing's monthly ballot for car license plates, seen as the best way of curbing traffic congestion in the capital, my neighbor Jiao Wen finally decided to go electric to avoid what was starting to look like long ...
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