American automaker General Motors is investing $50m to establish a new Trim Shop and upgrade its Press Room at the Lordstown Complex, Ohio, in order to support the build of the next-generation Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan. The company ...
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TRM Packaging has announced plans to grow the turnover of the business to £50m in the next three years. The ambitious plan to expand revenue by a third is backed by an investment of £8 million to increase the capacity of the ...
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Environmental Protection Agency personnel conducted an inspection of the Mid-Continent Fractionation and Storage facility in Conway, Kan., in April, 2012. As a result of the inspection, Mid-Continent has agreed to spend approximately $2 ...
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Canada's leading restaurant furniture manufacturer and distributor, Restaurant Furniture Canada recently helped Utopia Café & Grill in Toronto enhance the interior décor of their restaurant with new chairs and bar stools. ...
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Gildan Activewear reported second-quarter revenues rose 4.9 percent to $548.8 million. Adjusted net earnings were $79.2 million, or 64 cents a share, up 8.9 percent The company had projected net sales for the quarter in excess of U.S. ...
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The Federal Government's $1.5 billion commitment to the western section of the East West Link in Melbourne has been welcomed by the RACV. RACV general manager public policy Brian Negus said the western section of the new link from the ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the City of Scranton is one of 14 communities nationwide to receive EPA support to expand the use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI), has introduced its next-generation UltraCMOS PE4312 ...
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Inspired by the Los Angeles street lighting upgrade, where many of the city's 140,000 high-pressure sodium (HPS) street lights were converted to Cree LED luminaires, San Luis Obispo in California has selected LED chip, lamp and lighting ...
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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is looking at pushing back deadlines to give small truck fleets a few more years to comply with air quality regulations in California. CARB is holding a meeting later this week to consider ...
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The National Pronto Association has selected Philips Automotive North America, a division of Royal Philips of the Netherlands, as its preferred supplier of automotive lighting products throughout North America. "Philips was chosen by ...
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SEMI-GAS Systems, a division of Applied Energy Systems Inc of Malvern, PA, USA and a manufacturer of high-purity gas source and distribution systems, has expanded the capabilities of its GigaGuard GSM controller to include PLC operation of ...
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For fiscal third-quarter 2014 (to end-March), LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $405.3m, down 2.4% on $415.1m last quarter but up 16% on $348.9m a year ago. Fiscal Q3/2013 Q4/2013 ...
Stainless Steel Rolling Mill Upgrades Safety with Ease ABB's new safety PLC has provided the platform for Sandvik Materials Technology to add zoned safety guarding to a large cold rolling mill at its Sandviken plant in Sweden. The mill is ...
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Robert Bosch GmbH, GS YUASA Corp. and the Mitsubishi Group together announced that they have established a new joint venture called “Lithium Energy and Power GmbH & Co.KG” to cooperate for developing next generation lithium ...
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