Wednesday of last week ? monthly meeting, the CTA board, a government agency, to include a ban on electronic cigarettes is expected. He said believes spokesman for the CTA to evaporation agency smoking policy, and prohibits its ...
Tags: smoking policy, Health, electronic cigarette, e-cigarette, e cigarette
British vehicle brand MINI will expand its portfolio with the launch of new vehicle variants in July 2014, which will be equipped with new and better engines. The company will launch the new diesel variant MINI Cooper SD and the new ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Auto, vehicle
Private equity firm KKR, along with three other investors, has agreed to invest $270m for 70% stake in integrated pork company COFCO Meat, a unit of China's state-run COFCO Group. While KKR is the lead investor, paying $150m, other ...
Tags: Meat, pork, meat industry, Agriculture, Food
Power management company Eaton today announced the winners of the 37th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition held by its Cooper Lighting Division. The winners were recognized at LIGHTFAIR® International 2014 held on ...
PPG Industries' North American architectural coatings business has reached a definitive agreement to acquire The Homax Group, Inc., a supplier of decorative wall and ceiling texture repair products. Homax is a portfolio company of Olympus ...
Tags: PPG, Coatings, Construction
Metroflor Corp.'s new luxury vinyl tile (LVT) product, Aspecta, has received SCS Global Services' Platinum- level certification. SCS Global Services (SCS) recently announced its Platinum-level certification of Metroflor Corp.'s new ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Flooring
ZTE Corp , the world's seventh-biggest smartphone maker, aims to ship more than 80 million of the devices globally next year, a company official said on Monday. Shenzhen-based ZTE, which shipped about 40 million smartphones last year, ...
Tags: smartphone, Consumer Electronics, Electrical, Electronics
KinderLab Robotics, an Arlington-based startup, is nearly half-way toward its $50,000 Kickstarter goal to teach children ages 4 to 7 to learn how to code with a programmable robot kit. The robot kit, called KIBO, allows children to use ...
Tags: Robot, Electrical, Electronics
AkzoNobel's protective coatings business have appointed Scott Doering and Fernando Macedo as Vice Presidents overseeing the International and Devoe protective coatings brands within the North America East and West regions. The appointments ...
Tags: Protective Coatings, Coatings
The Boeing Co. has raced out to a lead over Airbus in commercial aircraft orders during the first five months of 2014, having nearly doubled its rival's order total so far. Boeing (NYSE: BA) reports a total of 394 net orders through June ...
Tags: aircraft, Transportation
Brazil steel producer Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) posted a net revenue of 4.4 billion reais (US$1.95 billion) in the first quarter (Q1) of the year, 20 percent up year-over-year, the company said on Friday. Gross profit increased ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday that US Class I railroads originated 110,164 carloads of crude oil in the first quarter of 2014, 1.4 percent more than in the fourth quarter of 2013 and, by 1,559 carloads, the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Critics of electronic cigarettes have been making efforts to prove that the devices are just like the harmful traditional cigarettes. Choosing to believe these allegations rather than basing decisions according to scientific data and ...
Packaging solutions provider Ampac has introduced new packaging format, E-Z SnackPak, which is said to act as an alternative to the typical single serve VFFS snack food bag. According to the company, the new E-Z SnackPak technology offers ...
Tags: Food Packaging, Packaging, Printing
According to recently published figures for the UK, it now accounts for 13% of all transactions and online grocery sales are set to double in key European markets by 2016. This shift in consumer shopping behaviour has inevitably had an ...