This year has been a busy one for materials handling acquisitions. Earlier this month, Daifuku Webb purchased Wynright. Less noticed was the acquisition of Portec, a specialty manufacturer of belt curve conveyors, by Interroll that closed ...
Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, has invested $5 million in a new pilot reactor that has begun operations to support coatings polymer research and scale-up activities at its Coatings ...
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Richmond, Va.-based DuPont Protection Technologies, a business unit of Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont, has announced it will increase production capacity of specialty colored DuPont? Kevlar? yarn at its Richmond plant. The company reports ...
Zepol Corporation, the leading trade intelligence company, reports that U.S. import shipment volume for May, measured in TEUs, increased by 3% compared to April, but decreased 2.2% compared to May of last year. The second-consecutive ...
DuPont announced that it will increase prices on all of its titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions effective July 1, 2013, or as contracts allow as ...
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In its eighth year, the Shaw Contract Group Design Is… Award program honors architecture and design firms that are changing the very idea of what design is. This year, Shaw Contract Group introduced Market Awards, representing the ...
Huntsman Textile Effects (HTE), Singapore, has introduced the PHOBOL? CP range of fluoropolymer textile finishes offering dual-action stain management for apparel. The new range, which includes Phobol CP-DP and CP-DL, combines an oil- and ...
CHANDLER, Ariz. - In the early 2000s, bedding retailer Nelson Bercier didn't bother to evaluate the business practices that were successful and the ones that needed some work. His statement probably surprised attendees at ...
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Recloseable packaging and microwaveable plastic trays were named top packaging breakthroughs that most impacted peoples’ lives over the last 25 years in an on-line survey hosted by DuPont. Together the two categories of invention ...
Recloseable packaging and microwaveable plastic trays were named top packaging breakthroughs that most impacted peoples' lives over the last 25 years in an on-line survey hosted by DuPont. Together the two categories of invention captured ...
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US-based insurance agency Senn Dunn Insurance will open a new office in the Charlotte metropolitan market, as part of the company’s business expansion plan. Located at the corner of Church & First Streets, the Ally Center will be ...
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It's reported that ArcelorMittal USA LLC has made a prosecution against the units of Severstal and Nisshin Steel Holdings Co. for violating a patent for metal used in auto parts. ArcelorMittal filed a complaint in US District Court in ...
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In honor of the 25th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, DuPont is asking the industry to vote on the past packaging breakthroughs that most impacted people's lives. You can vote by clicking here. From hundreds of past winners, DuPont ...
IOTA Engineering is pleased to announce they have brought Jeff Price and Greg Decker on board to their Sales Team! Taking up the mantle of Business Development Manager for IOTA’s Eastern Region, Jeff Price will utilize his extensive ...
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AstraZeneca is set to establish a global research and development (R&D) center at Gaithersburg, Maryland to improve pipeline productivity. These changes are made in order to simplify the company's global site footprint and to invest in ...
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