NEWARK (CN) – Hitachi, Panasonic, Sanyo and a host of other electronics manufacturers conspired to fix prices of capacitors, a Silicon Valley company claims in a federal antitrust class action. eIQ Energy, of San Jose, named 27 ...
Tags: Price Fixing, Electrical, Electronics
Hydroponics and organics expected blossom in a thriving agricultural sector Hydroponics, organic farming and recently secured free trade agreements are expected to deliver increased revenue for agriculture over the next five years, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
EPA Southeast's regional Twitter account has officially moved. In keeping with EPA national naming conventions, the former regional Twitter handle, @USEPASoutheast, has been changed to @EPASoutheast. As of May 2014, @EPASoutheast has over ...
Tags: Service, EPA, Certification
The US will set up its first strategic gasoline reserve, creating 1 million barrels of storage in the Northeast to protect against storms like Hurricane Sandy, which wreaked havoc on fuel supplies in the region, officials said Friday. But ...
Tags: Gasoline, gasoline reserve
Australia's largest food relief agency Foodbank Australia has announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Jason Hincks as Chief Executive Officer effective 28 April 2014. Hincks joins Foodbank Australia from the highly successful ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Woolworths has announced new long-term milk supply contracts Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced two new 10-year milk contracts across Australia that it says "will give dairy farmers and processors more certainty to ...
Tags: Milk, Agriculture, Food
Risk management has been a common topic for the electronics supply chain for a long time. Recently, though, supply chain risk management chatter has reached an all-time high. Perhaps the intense interest has been driven by extreme events ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Juan M. Garcia, today repeated his appeal to livestock producers affected by natural disasters such as the drought in the West and the unexpected winter ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The global market for power discrete devices will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.43% over 2013-2018, forecasts a new report from TechNavio (the market research platform of Infiniti Research Ltd). According to the ...
A new long-range wireless tag detection system, with potential applications in health care, environmental protection and goods tracking, can pinpoint items with near 100 per cent accuracy over a much wider range than current systems. The ...
Tags: Electronics, Consumer Electronics
The transport and logistics community is invited to join RedR Australia on Friday 7 February 2014 and wear red to help it make a difference to communities hit by natural disasters or displaced by conflict. 'Wear Red for RedR Day' is a ...
Tags: RedR, RedR Australia, wear red, not-for-profit organisation
FOR MANY years of his life, Ho Chong Choai watched his father Ho Kian Chuan labour over glass and frames in a small business with four workers in Kampung Pantai Malacca. Over 35 years, Chong Choai, now the managing director of SecuGlass ...
Tags: Ho Chong Choai, SecuGlass, glass factory, bullet resistant glass
U.S. disaster funding distribution is deeply inefficient, with huge cash infusions disbursed after a disaster, only to fall abruptly later, researchers say. Dr. Jesse Pines, director of the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation at the ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Disaster Preparedness
Environmental research and weather forecasting are about to get a significant technology boost as NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) prepare to launch a new satellite in February. NASA and JAXA selected 1:07 p.m. to ...
The United Nations said, the global economy will be better over the next two years and grow by 3.0% in 2014, also still faces some uncertainty factors and downside risk. The main risk is the US exit the quantitative easing monetary policy ...
Tags: Global Economy, Economy