- Job screening on the rise, especially for security.
More and more employees are subject to security and health checks in the course of job screening, according to a new study published in Perspectives on Labour and Income, May 2006. The study is based on the 2001 Workplace and ......
- HCL saga: The key to their success.
Byline: Sanjay Anand As we celebrate 25 years of the PC, few remember that six entrepreneurs who founded HCL in 1976 as a garage operation in India, had been selling computers since 1978, well before 1981 when IBM PC hit ......
- Consumer manufacturing solutions--the buck starts here!
The best product idea in the world can fall apart at any juncture, but perhaps no part of the process holds the potential for more frustration than manufacturing. Without a good prototype and a low cost of goods, the process ......
- Markets firm; SBI, HDFC in lead.
The market was trading in positive terrain marginally above the 14,000 mark. Banking stocks were in the lead, while IT shares dragged. At 12:10 pm, the Sensex was up 85 points or 0.61% at 14,014 and the Nifty up 0.44% ......
- Iowa Recycling Association. (Awards).
The Iowa Recycling Association has awarded Plastic Recycling of Iowa Falls its 2001 Iowa Recycled Product Manufacturing Award. The Iowa Recycling Awards are the first in the state to provide comprehensive recognition to Iowa's diverse recycling industry. The awards showcase ......
- MSE incubator to foster start-ups.
Byline: Ritu Gupta NEW DELHI: The ministry of small scale industries is setting up an incubation and training centre for the micro and small enterprises (MSE) sector to help foster start-ups and accelerate the growth of existing ventures. The training ......
- Man, I look good.
Byline: NIRMALA GOVINDRAJAN (##include msid=2162032,type=11 ##) Ready to look good (TOI Photo) With women working so hard on looking good, men don't want to be left behind, as soaring sales in men's cosmetics reveal.. Findings from a recent survey conducted ......
- Extended engineering.
R&D for electrical and electronic product manufacturing companies has been traditionally held close to the inner technology experts within an organization. Considered always to be the core, most companies have been wont to share any part of this function let ......
- DMI: product, packaging & performance.
DMI 86 N. Main Street Wharton, NJ 07885-1600 Tel: 973-328-1600 Fax: 973-328-4598 E-mail: anugent@dminj.com Web site: www.dminj.com KEY PERSONNEL: Eugene Sylva President Anthony Nugent Vice President, Sales Douglas Sylva, Ph.D. Director......
- Dried lactic cultures have storage, handling advantages.
Lactic cultures are well known for their health-promoting effects when they are present in fermented dairy products. Dry lactic cultures are easily handled for use in dairy product manufacturing as starter cultures and as probiotic cultures. Researchers at Alabama A ......
- Meghmani eyes LatAm shores.
Byline: Tapash Talukdar AHMEDABAD: Ahemedabad-based pigments and pesticides maker Meghmani Organics is close to acquiring an agro-chemical company in Latin America. The company, which recently got listed on BSE, confirmed that talks with a few companies are on, but declined ......
- Get ready for Abbys googly.
Byline: Shailesh Dobhal New Delhi: There's a twist in the ad awards tale. Galvanised by the gauntlet thrown by the prospect of a refurbished competing award from Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI), the Ad Club of Bombay has put ......
- Abbys get an all-new look.
Byline: Shailesh Dobhal NEW DELHI: There's a twist in the ad awards tale. Galvanised by the gauntlet thrown by the prospect of a refurbished competing award from Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI), the Ad Club of Bombay has put ......
- Viron Therapeutics Signs Development Agreement with Diosynth Biotechnology for ACS Inflammatory Treatment.
SciTech21-24 October 2006-Viron Therapeutics Signs Development Agreement with Diosynth Biotechnology for ACS Inflammatory Treatment(C)2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Viron Therapeutics Inc. today announced an agreement with Diosynth Biotechnology for process development, scale-up, and clinical manufacturing for its lead product candidate, VT-111....
- Tree-power future energy source?
A wood-fueled electricity generating plant may be in your future. In fact, the future is now in some Scandinavian countries, says Darwin Foster, Texas Cooperative Extension forestry program leader. "In Sweden, they're already bundling up what we're leaving in the ......