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US: Supply chain supports responsibly-produced cotton
2014-01-02 17:42:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Thirty textile companies from the US, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Europe have signed up to a new programme that supplies responsibly-produced cotton.
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Hydropower "Battery" Could Even Out Wind Energy Supply, Researchers Say
2013-12-30 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Norwegian hydropower stations could be linked to wind farms and serve as giant "batteries" to even out power supply fluctuations, a Scandinavian research organization says. A major hurdle for renewable energy suppliers is intermittent power production sometimes too much power is generated, other times too little, and periods of peak demand often don't coincide with periods of peak supply. By using excess electricity from windy periods to pump water uphill into reservoirs, hydroelectric power stations...
Landstar Completes Sale of Supply Chain Companies to XPO Logistics
2013-12-30 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - (NASDAQ-LSTR) Landstar System, Inc., a worldwide, asset-light provider of integrated transportation management solutions delivering safe, specialized transportation logistics services, announced today that it has completed the previously announced sale of its Michigan-based supply chain subsidiaries ("LSCS") to XPO Logistics, Inc. ("XPO") for $87.0 million in cash.<br /> <br /> Commenting on the transaction, Landstar Chairman, President and CEO Henry Gerkens said, "We are ...
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Global Beef Supply Forecast To Remain Tight
2013-12-30 00:24:00| Beef
Beef Producer According to a new report from Rabobank, global beef supply will remain tight into 2014, driven by lower feed costs, induced herd rebuilding in the U.S., and the strong export demand from Brazil and Argentina. read more
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Siemens to supply turbines for USA's first offshore wind farm
2013-12-27 04:37:15| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Plans to start building the USA's first offshore wind farm this year have taken a major step forward after the developer confirmed it would use 130 Siemens turbines. Cape Wind, which is being developed on Horseshoe Shoal, Nantucket Sound, will have a capacity of 454MW once complete and provide most of the power needed in Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Earlier this week, Cape Wind confirmed it had signed a deal to buy Siemens' 3.6MW offshore wind turbines and an...
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