Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
The Week Ahead: It"s All Happening.
It"s also a big week for the US, which kicks off on Monday with the May ISM manufacturing index, followed by April factory orders and May auto sales on Tuesday. Wednesday sees first quarter productivity and first quarter labour costs and the ISM non-manufacturing (services) ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
DAE seals Dh1.58b sales deal.
DUBAI ?Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), the $15 billion global aerospace manufacturing and services corporation, yesterday announced it has completed the sale of Landmark Aviation?s Fixed Base Operations (FBO) business to GTCR, a leading private equity investment firm, for Dh 1.58 billion. DAE, which bought Standard ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Jobs investment wins praise.
Mr Iemma, who recently returned from China, said it would be easy to suppose that China was the only country where there was a lot of manufacturing activity. He said this new facility in Erskine Park proved otherwise. ``With skills, technology and a ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Intel Starts Shipping Atom for PCs.
The chips are built on the company"s 45-nanometer manufacturing process and measure 22 millimeters square. (The first Atom processors for MIDs were 25-mm square.) The Intel hardware is capable of supporting both Linux and versions of Microsoft Windows XP. In addition ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Manchester cable manufacturing plant shuts, lays off 132 workers.
A manufacturer of high-speed electronic cables is closing its plant and will lay off 132 workers as it consolidates with a recently opened factory in Mexico. St. Louis-based Belden Inc. announced Tuesday that it expects its Mohawk cable production plant ...
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