Nissan is reportedly planning to expand its workforce by adding 1,000 additional workers in its North American plants to meet its production goals. Presently Nissan's plants in Mississippi, Tennessee and Mexico are operating in three ...
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Swedish specialty steel producer SSAB has posted its financial results for the first half of the current year, reporting a net profit of SEK 86 million ($12.6 million), compared to a net loss of SEK 281 million in the corresponding period ...
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc announced that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share which will be payable to shareholders of record as of January 9, 2014 and will be paid on January 24, 2014. ...
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HJ Heinz, a US-based food manufacturer, plans a $28m expansion project at its frozen food production facility in Masillon, Ohio, which would add 249 jobs. The project comes on the heels of the company's announcement last week to close ...
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Nederman has received a SEK55 million order from Johnson Control Inc to supply solutions for the filtration of lead dust in two plants in North America. The order includes baghouses to filtrate lead dust from several furnaces in two North ...
At the end of June, the Canadian wood-based-panels manufacturer Norbord re-commissioned its US-American OSB plant in Jefferson, which had been shut down indefinitely in January 2009. The company had already announced this step at the ...
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Japanese automaker Toyota’s American division, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA), is planning to invest $200m to increase V6 engine machining capacity and parts production in three North American plants. ...
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US carmaker Ford Motors will increase the production capacity at its North American facilities by 200,000 units per year, which adds to earlier capacity rise by 400,000 units in 2012. As part of the plan, production will be increased at ...
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Plastic closures and containers manufacturer Portola Packaging's North American plants have reduced energy usage by almost 30%. Over the past three years, the company also recycled about nine million pounds of material. Portola is ...
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Glass maker O-I said that this joint venture will invest in glass sorting equipment that will make more high-quality recycled glass available for use in O-I plants. “We are encouraged by the formation of this joint venture, as we ...
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Owens-Illinois, Inc. announces that it is teaming with Palo Alto, Calif., based eCullet, Inc. to form a new joint venture called Glass to Glass LLC. This joint venture will invest in sophisticated glass sorting equipment that will make more ...
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Owens-Illinois (O-I) is all set to collaborate with technology-based glass processing company in the US, eCullet, to form a new joint venture (JV) named Glass to Glass. According to the glass container manufacturer O-I, the JV will invest ...
Tags: Glass Processing Company, Packaging, sorting techniques
Fort Worth, Texas-based AZZ incorporated, a manufacturer of electrical products and a provider of galvanizing services, announced Wednesday that it acquired G3 Galvanizing, a galvanizing operation in Halifax, Nova Scotia on January 2, 2013. ...
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The ratings on the Russian vertically integrated steel group OAO Severstal are constrained by our view of the highly cyclical, capital-intensive, and competitive nature of the steel industry. Steel margins are relatively weak, and in our ...
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The ratings on the Russian vertically integrated steel group OAO Severstal are constrained by our view of the highly cyclical, capital intensive and competitive nature of the steel industry. Steel margins are relatively weak and in our ...
Tags: OAO Severstal, steel industry, Russia, steel