Industry News
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21 Dead, Five Injured in Chinese Power Plant Explosion
At least 21 people were killed and five were injured after an explosion Thursday afternoon at a coal-fired power plant in Dangyang, China, Chinese state media and US news organizations reported. A preliminary investigation into the blast’s cause determined that the incident at the Madian...
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New FDA Draft Guidance on Premarket Notifications for Supplements
Under a recent revision of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance on new dietary ingredient (NDI) premarket safety notifications, makers of dietary supplements will have to notify the agency within 75 days before starting to market a dietary supplement that has a new ingredient,...
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Sale of Terex Material Handling Unit Approved by US, EU
Terex Corporation, maker of equipment for construction, material handling, port and other applications, announced Aug. 8 that the sale of its material handling and port solutions (MHPS) business to Konecranes has been approved by EU and US regulators. “The clearances granted by both the...
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Gerard Daniel Worldwide Separation Products Div. Expands
Gerard Daniel Worldwide (GDW), North America’s largest manufacturer and distributor of wire cloth products, announces the GDW Separation Products Div. has recently moved its operations to a larger manufacturing facility in Hanover, PA. The additional floor space and state-of-the-art...
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New Management for Kalenborn Abresist
Kalenborn Abresist Corp. announced that Craig Frendewey, senior vice president, will take full responsibility of its North American operations. These operations include Kalenborn Abresist, Kalenborn Canada and Kalenborn Technologies. Frendewey first joined the...
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Stedman Expands Testing and Toll Processing Facility
The Stedman Machine Co. expanded its testing and toll processing facility with two horizontal-shaft impactors and a vertical roller mill fine grinding system. Other full-size equipment includes cage mills, vertical shaft impactors, hammer mills, vertical roller mills, and lump breakers. Open,...
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New Bulk Material Simulation Software Released
EDEM, a Discrete Element Method (DEM) specialist, has released EDEM 2017, featuring a GPU solver engine, a new interface, and key enhancements in usability and performance that further streamline simulation workflow. The latest release includes access to a GPU solver engine that has been...
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Agilent to Construct Manufacturing Facility in Colorado
Agilent Technologies Inc. has bought land in Frederick, CO to construct a new manufacturing facility that the company said will “more than double” its production capacity for nucleic acid active pharmaceutical ingredients, the Santa Clara, CA-based company announced Tuesday. “The...
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Dept. of Commerce Invests $22M in Advanced Manufacturing Center
The US Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is contributing a $2.2 million grant to the Osceola [FL] County Board of County Commissioners to assist in the construction of the Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center, the agency announced Tuesday. “...
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Costs for Agriculture Production in US Declined in 2015
The long-term trend of growing costs for agricultural production the US may be changing, according to data released Aug. 4 by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The cost of agricultural production for American farmers dropped in 2015 to $362.8...
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