W.W. Grainger Inc. is expanding further into Latin America by buying Brazilian supply company AnFreixo SA. Grainger, which sells hand tools, cleaning products and other equipment to businesses, bought the company from Brazilian industrial ...
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Rambus Inc., one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, today announced it has signed a license agreement with Fern Howard, a market-leading manufacturer of energy efficient lighting. This agreement enables Fern Howard ...
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Commencing on the 1st of April 2012, Samuel Wu (46) has taken over the OSRAM business for the Asian Pacific region. He is the successor of Fran Piscitelli (63), who will be retiring after more than 35 successful years with OSRAM. Samuel Wu, ...
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With retrospective effect from 1 January German Pellets has taken over the Austrian Glechner group of companies. The takeover includes three Glechner production sites - in Pfarrkirchen (Germany) and the Austrian pellet plants in Mattighofen ...
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Total sales revenues for 2011, which were previously announced as preliminary and have meanwhile been audited, stand at €519.5 million. This is an increase of 135.6 percent (previous year: €220.5 million). The first-time inclusion ...
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Daktronics, an LED Billboard and scoreboard company based in Brookings, South Dakota USA, recently opened a sales and service office in Sydney, Australia. The Daktronics office and its staff serve customers throughout Australia with on-site ...
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JAVA --High fuel costs are squeezing local loggers and a Java sawmill already hurt by a slump in new home construction. Lumber demand, which is the highest it’s been in the past five years, is not the problem for the Gregory Lumber ...
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Developments in LED lighting technology are taking place at a dramatic pace, heavily influencing the LED industry chain as well as final products. Component makers continually pursue the goal of raising the luminous efficacy of LEDs, while ...
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The modern opportunities of forward osmosis are considered, with five key challenges faced by FO systematically reviewed and discussed. These are concentration polarisation, membrane fouling, reverse solute diffusion, and the need for new ...
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The roundwood-export ban initially planned by Gabon for implementation on 1 January 2010 and finally introduced from the middle of May 2010 resulted in significant changes in Gabonese timber trading. As emerges from the export statistics ...
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End of March 2012, KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Germany, has started the series production of its high-efficiency SuPremE electric motor series at the company’s factory in Halle on the river Saale, Germany. In contrast to conventional ...
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New research from the University of Adelaide could help protect one of the world's most globally threatened tree species -- the big leaf mahogany -- from extinction. Big leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) is the most prized mahogany ...
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Davis-Standard (Pawcatuck, CT) is showing a newly developed mid-range controller called the DS-eVUE at NPE2012 (Orlando, FL; April 1-5). Features include a solid-state hard drive, a 15-inch (381mm) wide-screen HMI (human machine interface); ...
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ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, has organized a Meeting Point where exhibiting Italian machinery manufacturers involved in the production of machines for technical textiles will show their innovative ...
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Alfa Laval is to supply newly developed decanters to clean industrial wastewater in Canada. The SEK250 million order is for specially developed Alfa Laval decanters which will be used for large wastewater reclamation operations. “In a ...
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