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Miura America Co. Receives $21 Million Investment
February 23, 2017 ATLANTA - Miura America Co., a designer and manufacturer of energy-efficient, eco-friendly industrial steam boilers, announced it has secured a $21 million investment to help improve operations and meet increasing demand. The company will close on a partial investment of $1 million this year and will close on the remaining $20 million over the next five years. The investment come...
Nidec Factories in Vietnam Adopt Energy-saving Equipment
On December 19, five out of the six Nidec Group factories operating in Vietnam, i.e. Nidec Vietnam, Nidec Sankyo Vietnam, Nidec Tosok (Vietnam), Nidec Copal Precision (Vietnam), and Nidec Servo Vietna...
Refrigerated Cars in Short Supply
Over 1 billion tons of perishable food is consumed in China every year, of this more than 50% needs to be transported via cold chain. However, the integrated cold chain circulation rate now comes to o...
Midea Completes Acquisition Transaction of Kuka Group
Midea Group announced on January 6, 2017 that it has completed all payments in regards to the acquisition of Kuka Group. Upon completion of this acquisition, Midea’s wholly-owned overseas subsidiary, ...
Air Purifiers See Explosive Growth
On January 23, 2017, China’s Spring Festival Goods Big Data Report was released by CBNData, indicating that demands on health- and entertainment-related products have become a top priority during the ...
How to Make the Supply Chain More Effective
Feb 23, 2017 Making supply chains more efficient and workers more productive? It’s about time. Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS) recently introduced a range of new connected technolog...
Montracon debuts three at CV Show
February 22, 2017 Birmingham, UK: Montracon has three vehicles at the show: a rigid bodied curtainsider, a double deck reefer and a more versatile machinery/plant carrier. A fourth vehicle, a 1...
Tim Moran is new president of the Frozen Storage and Distrib
February 22, 2017 Heywood, Lancashire, UK: Tim Moran, logistics director, Yearsley Group, is the new president of the Frozen Storage and Distribution Federation. He will serve as president for 2 years to December 2019. Chris Sturman, chief executive, FSDF commented, “We are delighted to have Tim on board as our new president. “Yearsley Group and Moran have played a pivotal rol...
Leeds awarded grant to tackle truck fridge pollution
February 22, 2017 Leeds, UK: Leeds City Council has been awarded an air quality grant from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to help it tackle pollution from truck fridges. The council applied for the ￡150,000 Air Quality Grant with help from Dearman, which is trialing its zero-emission truck fridges that run on liquid nitrogen. Dearman is also making an in-kind...
$320 billion worth power projects in the GCC pipeline
February 22, 2017 The GCC currently has in its pipeline more than $320 billion worth of power projects in various stages, out of which more than $100 billion are projects with renewable and alternativ...
Scalp cooling device: prevent hair loss caused by chemothera
21/02/2017 Chemotherapy may result in hair loss (alopecia), which woman rate as one of the most distressing adverse effect of chemotherapy. Two recent studies published in the February 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) examine alopecia among women with breast cancer who received scalp cooling before, during and after chemotherapy. These studies were c...
Funds for Chinese perishable storage and transport
February 21, 2017 Shanghai, China: Shanghai-based perishable storage and delivery start-up Jiuye Supply Chain Management has raised $28m to help it grow, according to a report in the Coolstar. Founded in July 2014, Jiuye has swiftly expanded on the back of huge demand for cold chain logistics in China, with the company making over 100,000 last-mile deliveries a day at peak volume. Sa...
