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Office Depot Partners With Alibaba To Up Its Game In B2B Sales
Office Depot, which has experienced some difficult patches since the end of the recession — including store closures, like many chains competing with Amazon — is now betting that a partnership with Chinese online giant Alibaba will give it a boost in the business-to-business arena.
WILSONART ENGINEERED SURFACES & HANWHA SURFACES JOIN FORCES TO GROW SOLID SURFACE PRODUCTION IN NORTH AMERICA
Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces and Hanwha L&C Corporation announce a joint-venture agreement to build a manufacturing facility in Temple, Texas, supporting expansion and growth of the Wilsonart® Solid Surface and Hanex Solid Surfaces product lines. The more-than-125,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility provides both companies with added capacity and onsite product development capabilities to service their respective North American solid surface customers.
Danish manufacturer plans $33M expansion
A manufacturer of lift mechanisms for hospital beds and adjustable workstations is planning a $33 million expansion that would add 413 jobs in Louisville.
The company, LINAK U.S., which is headquartered in Denmark, unveiled plans to expand its operations at 2200 Stanley Gault Parkway in Louisville, KY, spending $14 million each on a building addition and new equipment. LINAK also estimated $1.4 million in startup costs and more than $3 million in property costs. The company's current 60,000-square-foot office and manufacturing facility is located in the Eastpoint Business Center near Anchorage.
How To Personalize Products Customers Actually Want
In the future, all your clothes will be custom-made. So will your car. So, most likely, will the computer you work on, the sunglasses you wear, the cup of tea you drink in the morning, and the bed you crawl into at night. Personalization is the next decade’s inevitable trend in consumer goods and services, in part because new technology, from flexible robotic systems to 3D scanning and modeling, is making mass customization cheaper. Brands are realizing the opportunity to leverage a wealth of newly accessible consumer information and preferences. It’s never been easier for a company to learn what you’d like to fine-tune; acting on it effectively, however, is another story.
Helping inventors bring their ideas to market
Product design and development company, IDC (Industrial Design Consultancy Ltd) has launched a service tailored to help inventors turn their bright ideas into a reality. The service works through all the aspects of developing and launching a new product and evaluates the opportunities and challenges of an inventor’s concept.
Office furniture supplier plans $750K expansion into Montcalm County
Byrne Electrical Specialists will bring 32 new jobs to Montcalm County with the construction of a $750,000 manufacturing facility and collaborative workspace in Lakeview next to Tamarack Lake.