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B2B Commerce Become Buying Method of Choice in Electrical Industry

The numbers are in and all signs point to a future saturated with business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce sales. Following in the footsteps of its business-to-consumer (B2C) cousin, B2B e-commerce is quickly becoming the shopping and purchasing method of choice for a wide range of buyers - including customers in the electrical industry.

M&A Activity in First Half of 2016 'Way Down' from Last Year's Second Half

Mergers and acquisitions activity in the first half of 2016 fell by 26.6 percent compared to the same period last year, and the decline was a whopping 66.8 percent when compared to the second half of 2015, data compiled by Mergermarket showed.

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Forget Government Money - Billions in Private Investment Going Into Space Travel

It used to be that the only way to get to outer space was through the government.

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Canada Acts to Ban Microbeads in Consumer Products

Canada's federal government has officially listed microbeads as a toxic substance, giving it the ability to ban the plastic beads used in cleansers.

Embraer Taps Alcoa as Sole Supplier of Aluminum for E2 Commercial Aircraft Line

Lightweight metals leader Alcoa has entered into a long-term contract with Embraer valued at approximately $470m to supply aluminum sheet and plate for E2s, the second generation of the Brazilian manufacturer's E-Jets family of commercial aircraft.

Natural Gas No. 1 Energy Source for U.S. Electricity, Beginning to Overtake Coal Globally

Natural gas has crept past coal as the largest source of electric energy in the United States and is now gaining globally, opening new markets for drillers, processors and transport companies.

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Diesel Predicted to Lose Its Dominant Position Among Class 8 Vehicles by 2021

In 2015, diesel engines made up 98.5 percent of the North American Class 8 vehicle market, but the forecast expects this dominance to lessen by 2021, according to a report by Americas Commercial Transportation (ACT) Research and Rhein Associates.

How Volvo Summoned an Army of Resources to Cut Energy Use at Its Plants

It wasn't exactly a cast of thousands. But when The Volvo Group set out to slash energy usage at its North American manufacturing plants, it called on a wealth of partners from both the private and public sectors for help.

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XPO Logistics Unveils Fleet of LNG Trucks in France

XPO Logistics Inc. has inaugurated a new pallet-distribution hub at Bondoufle, France.

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Aspen Technology Issues Update of aspenONE Software

Aspen Technology, Inc., a provider of software and services to the process industries, has made generally available Version 9 of two applications, aspenONE Engineering and aspenONE Manufacturing and Supply Chain.

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Chemical Industry to Be Transformed by Continuous Collection, Analysis of Data - PwC

The advent of continuous data collection and analysis has the potential to change the face of the chemical industry, and will create the need for platforms allowing companies to analyse a material throughout its value chain, consultants at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said.

Import Patterns Uneven, But 'Plenty of Merchandise' Expected for Back-to-School Sales

Import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to be mostly down through the summer but should see a significant uptick just before the winter holiday season, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.

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