Art Van Furniture is getting into the floor cleaning business. In a release, the Top 100 company said it has teamed with Floor Savers Maintenance & Restoration to start a new metro Detroit home cleaning service called Clean Team by Art ...
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Giant Bicycle employees and dealers are mourning the death of Fred Teeman, who died March 9 of cancer at age 67. Teeman worked for Giant for 19 years before retiring in 2007. Prior to joining Giant he worked for Schwinn. Teeman joined ...
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The new multi-use indoor arena Ziggo Dome has been fitted out with over 400 ETC Selador LED fixtures, in a bid to make its house lighting among the best - and greenest Traditionally, arena house lighting has been harsh, using unpleasant ...
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The Bosch engineers have been hard at work developing a complete line of diamond blades that they say deliver "great performance and speed" in applications such as cutting hard concrete, green concrete, tile and general purpose masonry. The ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has joined Munich-based ...
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US-based Pinnacle Foods has swung to a profit of $53m for the fiscal year ended 30 December 2012, compared to a loss of $47m a year ago, when the company incurred restructuring and impairment charges of $156m. The company's net revenues ...
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From a glove that can be used as a mobile phone to a remote-controlled spy helicopter: this year's CeBIT, the world's top high-tech fair, showcases a bewildering array of gadgets. For geeks in cold climates, China-based firm Winnershine ...
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Renault’s head of design says the French brand is pushing towards more sensual, Latin designs while the rest of the industry appears to be moving towards Germanic, hard edged styles. Speaking to the media at today’s Geneva ...
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The Volkswagen e-Co-Motion concept has been unveiled at the Geneva motor show, previewing a future zero-emissions delivery van. Designed to offer a solution to the problem of transporting goods into and out of increasingly more populated ...
India’s fast-growing cement industry can reduce its carbon emissions by nearly half by the middle of the century, according to a technology roadmap issued today by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the World Business Council ...
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Thanks to the higher speeds possible using a technology called vectoring, copper networks are still a viable option to cable and fiber, Deutsche Telekom says. Rolling out fiber-to-the-home to all households in Germany will take too long ...
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The iconic Alpine brand is set for a complete revival with the Renault-owned brand well underway to produce its first model by 2016. Alpine, which has been around since 1954, is renowned around the world for producing such iconic cars as ...
The Renault group is looking to expand its reach with potential for a new premium brand in the future. Renault’s plans are to position itself in the middle of a Y-shaped strategy, which has budget brand Dacia down the bottom while ...
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The Renault Captur urban crossover has been unveiled at the Geneva motor show today ahead of its anticipated launch in Australia in 2014. The Captur, which is the second car by Renault’s new head of design, Laurens van den Acker, ...
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Renault Australia has secured a big win for its commercial vehicles with Australia Post picking the French brand to drive the nation’s mail. Switching from Mercedes-Benz Vito and Sprinter, AusPost is set to change its fleet of vans ...