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Valmet Mining Introduces RFID-Enabled Filter Cloths

Finnish technologies company Valmet Technologies is launching a radio frequency identification system to track the use and replacement of cloth filters for its customers, including mining, paper and energy companies.

3D Printing Is Taking Off Across Manufacturing Value Chains, Research Says

The potential of 3D printing in manufacturing is starting to move beyond the testing phase into applications with measurable impact on product design, supply chains and maintenance and repair, according to a manufacturing insights survey by International Data Corporation.

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Farewell to Free Trade. What Will Take Its Place?

Say goodbye to the era of free trade.

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New Trading Platform Sources Legal and Certified Timber

A new trading platform to assist buyers of timber in sourcing legal or certified products from all over the world has been launched. BVRio Environmental Exchange has announced its responsible timber exchange index to facilitate the screening of timber products and their supply chains.

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Shipping Industry Groups Launch Free Ship Efficiency Portal

At the World Ocean Council's Sustainable Ocean Summit, Carbon War Room, exactEarth and University Maritime Advisory Service (UMAS) launched BetterFleet, a free-to-access ship operational efficiency portal on ShippingEfficiency.org.

HPE Rolls Out Products to Enable IoT Adoption

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced several software and hardware products to more securely manage the exploding universe of Internet of Things devices. October's Mirai botnet attack on unsecured IoT devices, which halted widespread access to dozens of popular internet sites, dramatizes the value of more comprehensive management and control of IoT, HPE executives said.

McDonald's Alters Supply Chain to Swap Frozen Patties for Fresh Beef

McDonald's Corp. is expanding a program that ditches frozen patties in favor of fresh beef, making another break with decades of fast-food practices in a bid to revitalize the chain. Fresh beef is now being used in some sandwiches in more than 75 restaurants in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area, McDonald's said in a statement, extending trials that began in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, where the company is preparing fresh beef in 55 locations.

Beyond Black Friday: New Challenges for Holiday Retailers

This year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday were bigger than ever. But the numbers could be concealing an underlying trend away from those key dates in the retail calendar.

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Welcome to the Age of 'The Universal Trade War'

Forget about trade friction between the U.S. and China. Now it's a global trade war.

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Automated Material Handling Is Growing 8 Percent Annually

Automated material handling market is growing with a CAGR of around 8 percent - attributed to increasing demand for the automated solution from various applications like manufacturing, automotive and electrical, according to a new report by Occams Business Research & Consulting.

Amazon Is Out to Conquer the Brick-and-Mortar Grocery Business

Now Amazon.com, Inc. wants to be your neighborhood grocer. How's that likely to turn out?

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Wal-Mart Tackles Food Safety With Trial of Blockchain

If you shop at Wal-Mart, you might be buying packaged produce unlike any ever sold in a U.S. store. The sliced apples or cut broccoli - the merchant won't say what's involved exactly - are being used to test blockchain, a new database technology. If successful, the trial could change how Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which serves some 260 million customers a week, monitors food and takes action when something goes wrong. That could spur big leaps in food safety, cut costs and save lives.

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