US construction employment hit a 50-month high as employers added 11,000 jobs in October, the fifth consecutive month of sector job gains, and the industry unemployment rate fell to 9 percent, according to an analysis of new government data ...
Tags: Construction Employment, Mineral
The combination of LED light engine, heat sink, and driver in the CertaFlux DL-S module enable SSL product developers to deliver SSL downlights to market quickly. Philips has announced the CertaFlux LED module for solid-state lighting ...
Tags: Philips Lighting, LED Downlight
Leviton announced a partnership with Make It Right in an effort to build healthy and sustainable homes and buildings for residents in areas of need, including New Orleans and Kansas City. Through product donations and financial ...
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Stop Hunger Now Salt Lake City will hold its first showcase event to celebrate the expansion of its popular meal packaging program into Utah. The showcase will be held at Molding Box headquarters on Tuesday, November 12, 2013, from ...
Tags: Stop Hunger, Salt Lake Market
US-based CEL-SCI has obtained an approval from the Health Protection Administration, Ministry of Health, of the Croatian Republic to begin patient enrollment in Phase III clinical trial of its investigational cancer immunotherapy treatment, ...
Today we have the announcement by DECC that EdF will construct the first of the new generation of nuclear plants in the UK. Should we welcome this decision? The contract for this project will provide an electricity price of ...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Energy
What's the biggest hurdle for a technological revolution in China's water desalination sector? It's certainly not a lack of potential market. In a country where water shortages have already crippled economic development, processing ...
Most global organisations have “too many data centres in too many countries”, according to analyst Gartner, and that in order to cut costs and optimise service delivery, they only need two on each continent they operate in. ...
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After the December contract had closed lower in 19 out of 23 sessions between October 4 and November 5, losing over 1200 points in the process, a bounce was long overdue. However, even though it felt good to finally see the market up on ...
Tags: NY Cotton Futures, Textile
Lexus admits that it “screwed-up” its growth trajectory and hindered its full Australian potential when the previous generation Lexus ES was not launched locally in 2007. Lexus International’s vice president, Mark ...
Twitter's first day of trading as a public company ended successfully, as the micro-blogging social networking site saw its share value rise by 73 per cent, reaching an overall company value of $31bn (£19bn). From flotation on the ...
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MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have slammed the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) for "alarmingly weak management" and a "shocking absence of control" in its handling of the Universal Credit welfare programme. The project, ...
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Like most nascent technologies, digital print is a hotbed of innovation, with countless R&D hours being poured into developing higher speed, wider web presses, achieving single pass production and improving colour consistency. But how ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, digital printing
Australia is a good potential investment target in the shale gas sector for Chinese companies as the domestic industry hopes that its own developments there can help meet soaring demand, according to several experts in the field. "It is a ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Global steelmakers, metallurgical coal miners and merchant coke producers are feeling the heat thanks to sluggish steel and coal prices coupled with the prospect of higher energy costs in the US due to regulation, participants said Tuesday ...
Tags: steel, Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral