Import cargo volume at U.S. ports is forecast to hit 1.4 million containers in November, down 12% from the record volume of 1.59 million containers that flowed through in both Sep. and Oct. as retailers rushed to bring merchandise in ahead ...
Tags: West Coast, Sporting Goods
Revenue growth: Revenue grew by 2.3% in 3Q14 and by 5.3% in 9M14, with revenue per hl growth of 5.0% in 3Q14 and 4.5% in 9M14. On a constant geographic basis, revenue per hl grew by 4.9% in 3Q14 and by 5.2% in 9M14. Total volumes in 3Q14 ...
Tags: Beer volumes, Revenue growth, Agriculture
The corn and soybean crops in the U.S. are massive. Monday's USDA Crop Production report shows the soybean crop continues to skyrocket in size, but the corn crop's slightly smaller than earlier estimates. Now, speculation's rising that ...
Tags: Corn, Soybean, Agriculture
Green Car Journal has named the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel, America's most fuel efficient pickup its 2015 Green Truck of the Year™. The announcement was made today at the 46th annual San Antonio Auto & Truck Show in San Antonio, Texas. ...
Tags: Ram 1500 EcoDiesel, Green Car, Auto
Australia Post has officially opened its upgraded Sydney Parcel Facility, part of a $2 billion investment in capability across the country that will dramatically increase capacity in time for the Christmas rush. The upgrade to the ...
Tags: Parcel Facility, logistics
LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics has released its financial report for the third quarter of 2014, recording net EPS of NT$1.67. For the third quarter, Everlight posted consolidated revenues of NT$8.526 billion (US$282 ...
Tags: Everlight, LED packaging
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2014 (to 3 October), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $718.2m, up 22% on $587m last quarter and 51% on $477m a year ...
Tags: Skyworks, semiconductors
Harvest is beginning to wrap-up, and the WASDE and Crop Production Reports estimate that yields are still claiming the title of "highest yields on record." The USDA reports that average U.S. corn yields are 173.4 bu/a, down .8 bushel from ...
Tags: Corn, Agriculture
South Australia's family-owned brewery, Coopers, said it experienced ongoing growth during the 2013-14 financial year with record sales and turnover figures. Its profits, however, dropped by 9.1%. Coopers is now the largest ...
With more than two months remaining, Nissan LEAF has shattered the record for the most U.S. electric vehicle sales in a single calendar year, surpassing the previous record of 22,610 that it set in 2013. "With nearly 20 electric cars or ...
Tags: solar array, renewable energy, Auto
Visteon Corporation has completed the first and largest phase of the sale of its remaining automotive interiors business to Reydel Automotive Holdings B.V., an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. Headquartered in Michigan and ...
More than ever before, automation and assembly go hand in hand (or gripper to gripper)—even at small-scale, low-volume production levels. The quest for higher efficiencies and cost savings is driving manufacturers to add consistency ...
Tags: Automation, modular automation
For third-quarter 2014, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $114.4m, down 16% on $136.6m last quarter but up 5% on $108.6m a year ago. “We reported ...
Tags: 5N Plus, chemical products
Tokyo-based Showa Shell Sekiyu subsidiary Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – is installing newly enhanced proprietary CIS production lines at its ...
Tags: copper indium selenium, PV
Funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and coordinated by Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany, the Hi-Q-LED project has made advances with green LEDs, diminishing the ‘green ...