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Euro 40,000 for supermarket slip
22 JUL 2017 IRELAND: A 65-year-old woman from Cork has been awarded Euro 40,000 in compensation after slipping on a wet floor caused by a supermarket refrigeration unit. The report in the Irish Examiner says the woman, Eileen O’Mahony, slipped and fell on a wet floor while shopping in a Dunnes store in Cork. The court heard that the floor had become wet as a result of water leaking f...
The First Fully Intelligent Air Purifier Based on NB-IoT
In June, the EP420 NB air purifier model with Huawei chips was successfully connected to the 5G net-work of China Telecom. After successful tests on the testing network in Wuxi, it became the world’s ...
India Ushers in GST
At the stroke of midnight on June 30, 2017, India entered a new era of one nation - one tax - one market. In the most important tax reform since India attained independence 70 years ago, all the states embraced the goods and services tax (GST), which subsumes a large number of central, state, and local indirect taxes like excise duty, customs duty, service tax, value-added tax (VAT), entry tax, an...
New Employee Delivers Light to an Non-electrified Region - 1
Jul 20, 2017 Before dawn. An employee, who recently joined the company, cautiously walks down the dark road. She visited a village without access to electricity on Komodo Island, Indonesia. By 2018, t...
Haier Acquires Majority Stake in GREENoneTEC
Haier Group has bought a 51% stake in Austrian solar collector manufacturer GREENoneTEC, from its sole shareholder, Robert Kanduth. The two parties share 50:50 voting rights, and Mr. Kanduth has remai...
First Easyfresh Express Links Spain and the Netherlands
The first Easyfresh Express reefer container train from Valencia in Spain to Moerdijk in the Netherlands successfully completed a trial run recently. The Easyfresh Express reefer container train is operated by Frigo Breda, one of the four owning partners of Easyfresh, a global reefer logistics operator headquartered in Valencia, Spain. The train features diesel electric equipment, already p...
ENGIE and Tabreed Join Forces
ENGIE has acquired a 40% stake in National Central Cooling Company PJSC (Tabreed) from Mubadala Investment, an investment company based in Abu Dhabi. ENGIE will become a key shareholder of Tabreed, along with Mubadala which retains a 42% stake. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval. Through the partnership with Mubadala, Tabreed will become one of ENGIE’s main regional development plat...
AC Sales Expected to be Boosted by Intense Heat in Japan
In July, many parts of Japan experienced intense heat waves. On July 9, Japan experienced intense heat waves with temperatures higher than 35oC at 17 observation points. On the same day, 505 points in...
Growing Food Refrigeration Market
Overview A large number of survey organizations have attempted to estimate the scale of the global frozen food market using various metrics and data. U.S.-based Grand View Research estimated th...
Sahibabad Green Team Conserves Water, Harvests Rain to Benef
July 20, 2017 Our manufacturing facility in Sahibabad, India, is in the heart of India’s water crisis. The country’s water shortage - caused by drought, urbanization, a dramatically increasing populat...
