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Us Foods to Acquire Food Distributor F. Christiana

Jun 6, 2017

US Foods has agreed to acquire F. Christiana, a Louisiana-based food service and retail distributor for an undisclosed price. F. Christiana focuses on the major center-of-the-plate categories along with dairy and dry goods. A ...

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US Foods to Acquire Meat Manufacturer FirstClass Foods

Apr 26, 2017

US Foods has agreed to acquire California-based meat manufacturer FirstClass Foods for an undisclosed price. Headquartered in Hawthorne, FirstClass Foods has about $55m in annual sales. Since 1962, FirstClass Foods has been delivering ...

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Oxipack to Unveil Leak Detection System for Liquid Pouches at Interpack 2017

Apr 5, 2017

Dutch-manufacturer Oxipack will unveil a new inline leak detection system for flexible liquid pouches at Interpack 2017 event in Germany. Oxipack noted that its system can now detect micro-leaks at a speed of 60 pouches per minute inline. ...

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US Foods Agrees to Buy SRA Foods

Mar 28, 2017

US Foods has agreed to acquire Birmingham, Alabama-based SRA Foods, a meat processor and distributor having yearly sales of around $80m. Family owned since 1940, SRA started out as a butcher shop in Birmingham. Today, SRA Foods occupies a ...

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Necromancer Gameplay: Hands-on with The New Diablo 3 Class

Nov 7, 2016

One of Blizzard’s headline announcements at Blizzcon 2016 was the introduction of the new Necromancer class to Diablo 3. Now if you’ve played Diablo 2, you’ll already be quite familiar with the concept of the ...

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Cargill Reports Fiscal 2017 First-Quarter Results

Oct 11, 2016

Cargill reported financial results for the fiscal 2017 first quarter ended 31 August, 2016. Key measures include: Adjusted operating earnings rose 35 percent to $827 million in the first quarter, compared with $611 million in the ...

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California Zero Emissions Demonstration Project Includes New Diesel Technology

May 25, 2016

New diesel technology will be part of a $23.6m zero-emission transportation test program in California for emerging commercial vehicle technologies designed to reduce greenhouse gases, smog, and petroleum usage in ports and rail yards along ...

Tags: New Diesel Technology, Zero Emissions

GM to Use Recycled Water Bottles to Make Chevy Equinox Parts

Apr 15, 2016

General Motors is turning its employees’ recycled water bottles into a new life: noise-reducing fabric insulation that covers the Chevrolet Equinox engine. The bottles - collected from five of its Michigan facilities - are also ...

Tags: GM, Recycled Water Bottles, Chevy Equinox Parts

Cargill Pulling Back Antibiotic Use By 20% In Beef Cattle

Mar 16, 2016

Cargill is cutting back on the amount of antibiotics used on its U.S. cattle supply by 20%. This decision will influence 1.2 million cattle annually, none of which use any type of antibiotics for growth promotion that are important for ...

Tags: Cargill, Antibiotic, Cattle supply, Beef

Ford Developing Autonomous Technology Which Can Navigate In Snow

Mar 15, 2016

Ford has disclosed that it is developing a driver-less car which can be driven under snowy conditions. The company uses LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology to create 3D maps of the roads that the AV (Autonomous Vehicles) will ...

Tags: Ford, Drive-less car, LiDAR, 3D maps, Snow

Cargill to Cut Antibiotic Use in Its Beef Cattle by 20%

Mar 13, 2016

US-based agricultural and food company Cargill has announced to cut the use of antibiotics in its US cattle supply by 20%, a move which is likely to impact 1.2 million cattle annually. From now, Cargill plans to reduce the shared-class ...

Tags: Cargill, Beef Cattle

Ford Conducts Industry-First Snow Tests of Autonomous Vehicles -- Further Accelerating Development Program

Feb 7, 2016

Ford is conducting the industry's first autonomous vehicle tests in snow-covered environments – a major step in the company’s plan to bring fully autonomous vehicles to millions of customers worldwide. Unlike other major ...

Tags: Autonomous Vehicles, Ford

China's Shipbuilding Sector Decline 26% in 2015

Feb 5, 2016

China retained its crown as the world's biggest shipbuilding nation in 2015, but with a 26% decline on year in newbuilding orders, chiefly due to "the abysmal state of the dry bulk market," Italian shipbroker Banchero Costa (Bancosta) said ...

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Pratt Commissions New Containerboard Production Line at Indiana Paper Mill

Dec 25, 2015

Corrugated packaging company Pratt Industries has recently commissioned a new $260m containerboard production line at its greenfield paper mill in Valparaiso, in the US state of Indiana. The OptiConcept M board making line was supplied by ...

Tags: Pratt Industries, containerboard, Packaging

Vehicle-Mounted Computer for The Warehouse

Dec 21, 2015

Zebra has released technology designed to enhance productivity in the Australian manufacturing and transport and logistics sectors. The new Windows 10-ready VC80 is said to virtually extend any PC-based application to material-handling ...

Tags: Zebra, Windows 10-ready VC80, Service

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