Adept Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Robotic Innovation – NASDAQ (press release)

July 23, 2013

Company Celebrates Anniversary Milestone With Plans for New Innovative Products, Pioneering Technologies and Continued Team Dedication PLEASANTON, Calif., July 23, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADEP), a leading provider of intelligent robots and autonomous mobile solutions, today announced it has reached its 30th year in business. The […]

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US manufacturing and the troubled promise of reshoring – The Guardian

July 23, 2013
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CTS Announces Second Quarter 2013 Financial Results – The Herald | HeraldOnline.com

July 22, 2013

ELKHART, Ind. — CTS Corporation (NYSE: CTS) today announced second quarter 2013 revenues of $151.6 million, an increase of 1% from the prior quarter and a decrease of 2% from the same period last year driven by softness in EMS markets. Second quarter net loss was $11.3 million, or $0.34 per share, compared to net […]

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Wright shifts into high gear with big assembly contract – North Bay Business Journal

July 22, 2013

SANTA ROSA — Wright Engineered Plastics is doubling the size of its production facility and adding 100 workers to accommodate greater demand for injection molding of parts as well as assembly of products in the U.S. Wright Engineered Plastics’ experience in telecommunications manufacturing and medical-device clean-production standards help land a big contract for molding and […]

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Can the UK reshore its way back to health? – Investment & Business News

July 22, 2013

There are those who are a tad cynical about talk that the UK economy is recovering. They look at debt – household and government debt – and with a somewhat sardonic smirk, say “Yeah sure, the UK economy is recovering.” But if you sign up to a school of thought that there has […]

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Bumps in the Road – Construction & Demolition Recycling

July 22, 2013

© Naypong | Dreamstime.com The recent collapse of the Interstate 5 Skagit Riv- er Bridge in Washington once again brought to the forefront the importance of modernizing U.S. bridges. It was also a sobering reminder that we must invest in America’s infrastructure in order to maintain our quality of life and compete in […]

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Bathroom manufacturer moves production back to UK – bdaily

July 22, 2013

Online bathroom retailer bathrooms.com is reversing the offshoring of manufacturing by moving production back to the UK. CEO Ian Monk has chosen to ‘reshore’ production in Birmingham, even as the company looks to grow exports. Bdaily asked Ian why he decided on the move? What has prompted you to move production back to […]

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LatamWatch: Brazil to Unveil Budget Cuts Mon,Surplus at Risk – MNI News

July 22, 2013

By Charles Newbery, James Young and Daniel Horch –Mexico Politics Set to Heat Up Reform Agenda Debate, Inflation Cools –Argentina Sees Boom in Energy Sector, Tightens FX Controls BUENOS AIRES, MEXICO CITY AND SAO PAULO, JULY 22 (MNI) – Brazil’s government is scheduled to announce budget cuts Monday, but the primary surplus target of […]

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Massive customer outage increasing: Vodafone loses 8.4% in six months – Delimiter

July 22, 2013

news Vodafone Australia has it lost a further 551,000 customers in the first half of this year, in further evidence that the turnaround plan put in place for the telco by its new chief executive Bill Morrow is having little effect upon the company’s fortunes; in fact, the numbers of customers leaving the troubled telco […]

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Cameron Says Strengthening Economy May Allow UK to Lower Taxes – Bloomberg

July 21, 2013

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said the British economy is “healing” and that the improvement should allow the government to lower taxes. “As we start to see the economy grow stronger — and it is growing stronger — as we start to see the country improve, actually I want to give people back some of […]

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