Valspar Corp. has appointed Norbert Dentressangle to provide warehousing and distribution to support its expansion in the UK market, in partnership with a major DIY retailer. With more than $4 billion in sales and 10,000 employees in 30 ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, paints
"Sales of new and refurbished pallets will expand by 3.5% a year through 2017 to 1.3 billion units, valued at $16.9 billion." That was the lead sentence in the recent report on the market for pallets in North America from the Freedonia ...
Tags: Shipping Pallets, Transportation
Brandished on stage at Microsoft's Build conference last week by Steve Ballmer himself as the next great thing in Windows 8 tablet hardware, Acer's Iconia W3 is the first 8-in tablet with the ability to run the full version of the company's ...
Tags: Windows 8, Computer Products, software
The need by corporate IT operations to enable easier interaction with massive -- and fast growing -- data sets in Hadoop environments is driving a flurry of vendor activity. For one, Splunk last week rolled out a beta version of an ...
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Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India ended the week higher Friday, helped by robust activity in the Atlantic basin. "The Atlantic basin is firm for both Supramaxes and ...
Summer is upon us—and for most people, that means hitting the beach, going swimming, and catching some sun. For nerds, however, summer means we're more likely to be dragged away from the security of our computer and TV screens. Never ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Under Cover Lingerie, India's leading brand of fashion lingerie and fantasy nightwear has launched a new line of sensuous thongs ‘C-Strings’ for the confident Indian Women. C-String thong is a variant of the G-string which ...
Tags: India, Cover Lingerie, Apparel&Accessories
In a quickly adapting business planet, office moving from one office to an additional is a scenario generally business holders will unquestionably confront. Assuming that you suppose moving out or into an office are hard -you're wrong -it's ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, office moving
The emerging IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN standard will be able to deliver faster connections wherever it's used, but the biggest benefit may come at public hotspots -- eventually. On Wednesday, the Wi-Fi Alliance started certifying ...
Tags: Wi-Fi Standard, 802.11ac
There's been a lot of buzz surrounding the Tesla Model S, so I was anxious to get a chance to live with it for a few days and see if I felt it deserved the top score awarded by my engineer colleagues. I am happy to say, the car did not ...
Styrolution Europe has raised operating rates at its acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene plant at Antwerp, Belgium to 80-85% capacity in June, a company source said Wednesday. The 250,000 mt/year ABS unit was running at 70-75% capacity in ...
Tags: Chemicals
Europe solar installations are forecast to fall by more than 6GW in 2013, with 1.3 GW of this decline attributed to incoming EU anti-dumping duties on China-made modules, according to IHS. IHS has cut its forecast for the second half of ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping Duties, Energy
Interior designers in search of some of the latest developments in glass and glazing will find many new options when they attend NeoCon, North America’s largest contract furnishings trade show, taking place June 10-12 at ...
Tags: Decorative Glass, Merchandise Mart
The hydro test pump is usually required for hydrostatic pressure testing. Hydrostatic pressure testing is carried out to test the hoses, pipes, cylinders, cross country pipelines, boilers, pressure vessels, castings, valves etc for defects ...
Tags: Pump, Hydro Test Pump
SAP is set to acquire Swiss e-commerce and logistics management firm Hybris in a deal reportedly worth at least $1bn (£650m). SAP said the acquisition will allow it to begin focusing on optimising the customer experience for ...
Tags: SAP, Hybris, E-Commerce