Private investment firm City Capital Ventures has acquired Illinois-based Cookie Specialties (CSI) or Matt’s Cookies, for an undisclosed sum. Matt's Cookies was founded in 1972 by Grant Pierce and operated as a family owned business ...
America’s pork producer and processor Smithfield Foods is planning to set up a new $12m bacon slicing plant at its Cudahy facility in Wisconsin. The new 17,000ft2 plant will comprise four slicing lines that will help the company ...
Tags: Smithfield Foods, brands, Food
With immediate effect, the polyCarbonate-based Alcom LDM (Light Diffusion Matt) from Albis Plastic will be used in the R. CarbonatE Alcom LED production line at Rober Kunststoffe. This specialist for extruded and transparent Plastics, ...
Tags: glazing materials, lighting sector, Lights
Q2 spending also up by 56% in Asia, but EMEA down, says sector report by Infonetics. Market research firm Infonetics Research has published a vendor market share and preliminary analysis from its Optical Network Hardware report on sales ...
Tags: Optical Hardware, Electronics
Smithfield Foods, Inc., a wholly owned independent subsidiary of WH Group Limited, reported record 2014 first quarter results. All comparisons are to the first quarter of 2013. Sales for the first quarter of 2014 were $3.4 billion, up 3%. ...
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Wade Kawasaki is the founder and CEO of Avanche Corp, a group of small companies which includes Exports International, the company which his wife Rose Kawasaki still runs today. The Coker Group announced that its Executive Vice President, ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Auto, Transportation
American Trucking Associations appointed Curtis Shewchuk of Con-way Inc. as chairman of the group's Homeland Security Policy Committee, ATA said Jan. 14. Shewchuk is chief security officer of Con-way, based in Ann Arbor, Mich. He replaces ...
Tags: Transportation, Truck
RPM International Inc. today reported record sales, net income and diluted earnings per share for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended November 30, 2013, driven by volume increases in both its industrial and consumer segments and improved ...
Tags: RPM Reports, Construction
L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has signed a contract with Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Co., Ltd. (GNPJVC) to replace the input/output (I/O) system on the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station full scope simulator’s main control ...
Tags: L-3 MAPPS, Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture, I/O System
Chinese authorities on Friday released a set of improved standards on non-ferrous metal industries as part of the effort to reduce pollution. The standards require strict pollutant and solid waste disposal in cement production, as well as ...
Tags: Non-Ferrous Metal, Mineral
The purchase expands the firm’s packaging platform to six separate operating companies. Using Form-Fill-Seal (FFS) technology, its machines use heat to convert plastic film into custom-formed cups that are filled then sealed within ...
Tags: Yogurt Packaging, Packaging
L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has won an order from Electrabel S.A. for the supply of a full scope operator training simulator for the Tihange 1 nuclear power plant located in the Walloon province of Liège, Belgium. The project ...
Tags: Nuclear News, L-3 MAPPS, Simulator Project
Barry-Wehmiller has acquired Arcil, a Paris-based supplier of packaging technology for the fresh dairy and food industry, for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is said to be Barry-Wehmiller's first within France and is expected to ...
Axalta Coating Systems has launched its latest generation Nap-Gard product, which can withstand continuous operating temperatures of 155°C (311°F). Nap-Gard High Tg 7-2555 is a thermosetting epoxy powder designed for use as a ...
Axalta Coating Systems is rolling out its latest generation Nap-Gard® product which can withstand continuous operating temperatures of 155°C (311°F). Nap-Gard High Tg 7-2555 is a thermosetting epoxy powder designed for use as a ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil, gas