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WhiteWave Foods announces new sustainability targets
August 1, 2016 The WhiteWave Foods Co., Denver, Colo., unveiled new sustainability commitments and 2025 environmental targets, fulfilling its 2016 commitment to source 100% of the cocoa powder used to produce its North American brands, expand its 100% sustainable cocoa commitment to its European Alpro brand and pledge to reduce sugar in Alpro products by 12.5% by 2020. “At WhiteWave, we aim...
2 member-owned cooperatives join forces to help retailers co
August 1, 2016 Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG), Kansas City, Kan., and Affiliated Foods Midwest (AFM), Norfolk, Neb., reached an agreement to combine the two cooperatives’ distribution businesses. ...
Air Conditioning Systems Market to Reach $167 Billion by 202
August 1, 2016 ALBANY, N.Y. - The global market for air conditioning systems was pegged at a value of $104.4 billion in 2015 and is projected to rise to $167 billion by the end of 2024, expanding at a 5.1 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2016 to 2024, according to a report from Transparency Market Research. The market is projected to expand at an even faster pace in terms of volume,...
CGNA Top Controls Distributor’s Business Meeting coming up i
July 29, 2016 BREA, CALIF - In less than two months, Controls Group North America (CGNA) will hold their annual “2016 CGNA Fall Members’ Meeting” in Chicago. CGNA brings together the largest network of independent controls distributors in North America each September to evaluate the industry and their critical role in it. It is also a business leadership event with the theme this fal...
Energy Management Market to Witness Substantial Growth
July 29, 2016 ALBANY, N.Y. - The global energy management systems market is forecast to see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.4 percent between 2016 and 2024, growing from a valuation of $9.9 billion in 2014 to $35.9 billion by 2024, according to a report from Transparency Market Research. The report projects that the market will experience an increasing number of industries, build...
US Chiller Services and BP Group Form Joint Venture in New Y
July 29, 2016 NEW YORK - US Chiller Services, provider of repair, maintenance, retrofit, and servicing of large tonnage chillers, has entered into a joint venture agreement with New York-based HVAC specialist, The BP Group, to offer a full range of HVAC services for large tonnage chillers and equipment to an expanded client portfolio in the New York tri-state area. US Chiller Services NY will be l...
Carrier Keeps Visitors Comfortable on the USS North Carolina
July 28, 2016 WILMINGTON, N.C. One of the nation’s most well-known historic battleships recently received a refurbishment that included the installation of a Carrier variable refrigerant flow (VRF) he...
Nestle, Samsung collaborate on digital health, nutrition pla
28 July 2016 The initial work on the platform will be carried out by the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences and the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Centre. Nestle USA, Glendale, Calif., and Sa...
Aerco International Appoints James F. Dagley as President
July 28, 2016 BLAUVELT, N.Y. - Aerco International, a Watts company and a leading supplier of boilers and water heating products, has announced that James F. Dagley has been appointed as the company’s new president. Dagley comes to Aerco from Johnson Controls where, during the past 13 years, he filled leadership roles of increasing responsibility in the fields of sales, marketing, and busin...
University, Dioxide Materials Partner on New Sensors for HVA
July 28, 2016 BOCA RATON, Fla. - Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU’s) Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) and Dioxide MaterialsTM have formed a partnership to develop and evaluate a novel low-cost, low-power, wireless CO2 sensing system for HVAC applications. The technology that emerges from this joint project is expected to help significantly lower the amount...
Hudson Technologies Wins DoD Contract with Maximum Value of
July 28, 2016 PEARL RIVER, N.Y. - Hudson Technologies Inc. announced that it has been awarded, as prime contractor, a five-year contract including a five-year renewal option, by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency with an estimated maximum value over the term of the agreement of $400 million in sales to the Department of Defense (DoD). The fixed price contract is for the management and supply of ref...
Global IQF fruit market expected to reach $8B in 2016
July 27, 2016 Worldwide consumption of individually-quick frozen (IQF) fruits is expected to reach 2.3 million ton, according to a study released by Persistence Market Research, New York. The g...
