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AUBURN HILLS, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Continental Structural Plastics (CSP), along with its parent company Teijin, has been named a finalist in the 2020 Automotive News PACE Awards for its carbon fiber pickup box used in the 2019 GMC Sierra Denali CarbonPro edition.
The box, branded CarbonPro® by the customer, is the industry’s first commercial application of the material Sereebo®, a proprietary, carbon fiber nylon thermoplastic material that is fully recyclable. The advanced manufacturing techniques used to mold Sereebo into the CarbonPro box are the first mass production technologies developed for carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastics suitable for high-volume programs. The CarbonPro box delivers best-in-class dent, scratch and corrosion resistance, while saving 62 pounds over a steel box. Its durability eliminates the need for a bed liner, saving an additional 40 pounds of mass.
“We are honored to once again be recognized as a PACE Award finalist for our advanced composite technologies,” said Steve Rooney, CEO of Continental Structural Plastics. “The CarbonPro box represents achievement and collaboration across CSP, Teijin and General Motors, and demonstrates what can be accomplished when thought-leaders come together to solve a design challenge.”
This is the second time CSP has entered the PACE Awards. In 2017, the company received the Automotive News PACE Award for its TCA Ultra Lite® material in production on the Chevrolet Corvette.
About the Automotive News PACE Awards
The Automotive News PACE Awards program is in its 26th year of awarding automotive suppliers for game-changing technologies that highlight superior innovation, technological advancement, and business performance. The 2020 PACE Award finalists were announced Oct. 11, 2019, at SAE Detroit Section’s annual Global Leadership Conference held at The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia.
About Continental Structural Plastics
Continental Structural Plastics, a Teijin Group company, has provided leading-edge technologies in lightweight composite solutions for the automotive, heavy truck, HVAC and construction industries for 50 years. Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, CSP provides full-service engineering support, and holds multiple patents covering materials development and manufacturing processes. The company has operations on three continents and more than 4,300 employees. For more information, visit cspplastics.com.
About the Teijin Group
Teijin (TSE: 3401) is a technology-driven global group offering advanced solutions in the areas of environmental value; safety, security and disaster mitigation; and demographic change and increased health consciousness. Its main fields of operation are high-performance fibers such as aramid, carbon fibers & composites, healthcare, films, resin & plastic processing, polyester fibers, products converting and IT. The group has over 170 companies and around 20,000 employees spread out over 20 countries worldwide. It posted consolidated sales of JPY888.6 billion (USD 8.1 billion) and total assets of JPY1020.7 billion (USD 9.3 billion) in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019.
Please visit www.teijin.com


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Apple knows students need to save a bit of coin while they’re spending most of their disposable income on pizza and “soda.” That’s probably why it recently dropped the price of Apple Music to just $4.99 per month for students. That’s a 50-percent discount from the standard pricing.
Apple isn’t the first to do this, of course. Spotify has a similar option for students that’s priced the same. And, frankly, Spotify is usually the better option if you’re into sharing songs, creating co-managed playlists and more. Apple Music, on the other hand, has been home to several major exclusives recently, including Drake’s new album “Views.” It’s also expected to get a massive makeover later this summer, so maybe some of the features we like in Spotify will soon be available in Apple Music.
TechCrunch, which first spotted the discount, said that it’s also going to launch in Australia, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and the U.K. If you’re actually a student – Apple will need verification, after all – this is a great deal. Look for it if you’re in one of the aforementioned markets.

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General Motors‘ decision not to join Ford and Jeep in a renewed battle for off-road supremacy is reportedly not sitting well with the company’s top executive.
The buzz surrounding the resurrected Bronco contrasts with the criticism directed at GM over its revival of another dormant SUV nameplate two years ago: the Chevrolet Blazer.
Little about the crossover of today harkens to the beastly Blazers of the past. Its relaunch made hardly a ripple — at least outside the UAW, which encouraged a boycott because the new version is imported from Mexico. Automotive News certainly did not dedicate the entire last page of an issue to the Blazer’s return.
“The mountain of pre-orders for Michigan-made, compact Broncos flooding Ford Motor Co. is a harsh reminder that GM’s Blazer revival as just another sporty midsize crossover, something it originally wasn’t, is shaping up to be one big missed opportunity,” wrote Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes. “No less than CEO Mary Barra, I’m told, tersely reminded senior product planners as much in a meeting amid last week’s Bronco brouhaha.”
Howes called the Blazer’s return “a cautionary tale of misreading the market, of squandering an iconic brand name.”
Ford certainly has made those kinds of mistakes over the years, too. But in this case, no matter how the new Bronco fares against Jeep, the Blue Oval already has notched an early win by getting into the heads of GM’s leadership.


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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced on Tuesday that his office has filed a lawsuit against a Cleveland-based paving company for multiple alleged violations of consumer law.
Family Paving & Cement LLC allegedly violated Ohio's Consumer Sales Practices Act, including failure to deliver, violating the Deposit Rule, performing shoddy work, failing to secure permits and failing to register as a contractor. The lawsuit seeks civil penalties, injunctive relief and restitution for consumers.
"Consumers paid this company thousands of dollars for driveway paving or general home improvement work that either was never delivered or was done in a shoddy manner," DeWine said. "Previous attempts to resolve the issues have failed, leaving us no choice but to file this lawsuit."
DeWine's office has received four consumer complaints against the business since August 2009. In the complaints, consumers allege total losses of $20,000, with one consumer alleging that she paid $16,400 for windows and siding work that was never completed.


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Add Bottega Veneta to the list of companies that are becoming home decor obsessed.
The brand, most notable for fashion goods, will be opening a home-focused store in Los Angeles according to Women’s Wear Daily. Though the company already has furniture-only stores, this will be the first to sell home goods and accessories too.
The store will open early next year and is moving into a spot on Melrose Place that has high-end neighboring shops such as Carolina Herrera, Chloￃﾩ and Oscar de la Renta.
And while there will be a strong sense of home, don’t expect this to be like other furnishing stores. Tomas Maier, the brand’s creative director said there may be a coat or handbag sighting at the shop also. "There will be a very strong representation of home but that doesn’t mean that Melrose won’t have a very edited group of bags that work with the whole idea, or that coat or typical Bottega dress as well, he said. "We’ve learned over the past 12 years that the customer for a handbag can be the customer for stemware or an upholstered chair or so on.”
Ain't that the truth?
Head over to Women’s Wear Daily to read the full story.


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A California man is part of a class action lawsuit against a dog food company after he alleges one of his dogs died and two others became seriously ill after eating the product.
Nestle Purina PetCare produces Beneful dry dog food. The food comes in eight different types and has caused internal bleeding, liver failure, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, weight loss and kidney failure to their beloved pets, the suit claims.
In the past four years, 3,000 online complaints have been filed by pet owners who say their dogs either died or became seriously ill after eating Beneful, the lawsuit claims.
Frank Lucido's pet is the latest such case. Lucido said he purchased Beneful dog food for his three dogs, a German shepherd, named Nella; an English bulldog, named Dozer; and a Labrador, named Remo.
Lucido, said Nella became ill on Jan. 17 and one week later, he found Dozer dead in his yard. Remo also became sick around the same time.
He filed a lawsuit in February claiming Purina Nestle knew its product was harmful and sold it anyway without properly investigating thousands of previous reports of pet deaths and serious illnesses.
Lucido is seeking $5 million in damages.
Director of corporate communications for Nestle Purina Petcare Bill Salzman issued a statement on the matter:
"We believe the lawsuit is baseless, and we intend to vigorously defend ourselves and our brand. Beneful had two previous class action suits filed in recent years with similar baseless allegations, and both were dismissed by the courts.
Like other pet foods, Beneful is occasionally the subject of social media-driven misinformation. Online postings often contain false, unsupported and misleading allegations that cause undue concern and confusion for our Beneful customers.
Bottom line: Consumers can continue to feed Beneful with total confidence."


text: Drought and disease is increasing the use of fillers such as rye, corn, twigs and even clumps of earth in coffee, researchers from the State University of Londrina in Brazil have reported. The report, which was presented at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco this week, claims that these extra ingredients are added to make ground coffee go farther and increase profits for producers and roasters. “With a lower supply of coffee in the market, prices rise, and that favours fraud because of the economic gain,” said Research Team Leader, Suzana Lucy Nixdorf, in a statement. Nixdorf and her research team have been working on a way to detect counterfeit coffees before the product reaches stores and cafés. “With our test, it is now possible to know with 95 per cent accuracy if coffee is pure or has been tampered with, either with corn, barley, wheat, soybeans, rice, beans, acai seed, brown sugar or starch syrup,” said Nixdorf, in the statement. Currently, tests to detect these additives require scientists to check the coffee under a microscope or identify various additives through tasting. According to Nixdorf, the problem is that after roasting and grinding it becomes extremely difficult to see any difference between the fillers and the beans, especially because of the dark colour and oily texture of coffee. The new test uses liquid chromatography, a powerful analytical technique that is very sensitive and highly selective, Nixdorf explained. Because much of the coffee is composed of carbohydrates, the unwanted grain fillers generate different levels of sugars than the natural ingredients, so they are easy to identify. Researchers have reported that the resulting methodologies will allow for testing of coffee from markets across the globe.


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OPPO K9s will become official on October 20
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OPPO is set to launch its new K9 series smartphone, the K9s, on October 20. A social media post from OPPO also confirms the design of the handset.
It has already appeared on a Chinese retailer’s website, revealing full specs, such as a 120Hz screen refresh rate, Snapdragon 778G chipset, X-axis linear motor, and triple camera setup. back.
Here are more details.
A Full-HD + LCD screen is expected
The OPPO K9 will feature an 8.52mm thick body with a perforated cutout, slim bezels and a side fingerprint sensor. On the back, it will have a rectangular camera bump.
The device could support a 6.59 inch Full-HD + (1080×2412 pixels) IPS LCD display with 20: 9 aspect ratio and 120Hz refresh rate.
It will be offered in three colors.
There will be a 16MP front camera
The OPPO K9s will offer a triple rear camera module, including a 64MP (f / 1.8) primary shooter, an 8MP ultra-wide lens (f / 2.2) and a 2MP macro sensor (f / 2.4). On the front, it will get a 16MP (f / 2.4) selfie snapper.
The phone will support 30W fast charging
The OPPO K9s will be powered by a Snapdragon 778G processor, combined with up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.
Under the hood, it will run on ColorOS 11.3 based on Android 11 and pack a 5,000mAh battery with 30W fast charging support.
For connectivity, the handset should support dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, a headphone jack, 5G, and a Type-C port.
OPPO K9s: Pricing
The official pricing information for the OPPO K9 will be announced at the time of launch, which will take place next week. However, considering its specs and features, it is probably priced at CNY 1,540 (around Rs 18,000).


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The war in Ukraine has a major impact on goods flows worldwide and creates great uncertainty in supply chains. Companies are busy re-routing goods flows and VDL Nedcar can no longer get parts. In the long term it will lead to more reshoring and companies will switch to green energy more quickly, experts expect. The current unanimity in Europe is a favorable side-effect for this. War and sustainability of Supply Chains may therefore have a correlation.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting geopolitical tensions are giving supply chain people around the world headaches. All kinds of acute problems have to be fixed, such as Ukrainian drivers dropping out, containers that can no longer be transported by train from China to Europe and ports in the Black Sea that have been closed, in addition to the sanctions imposed on Russian banks and companies. VDL Nedcar even has to temporarily halt production because a supplier with factories in Ukraine can no longer supply wiring harnesses.
4PL company Caroz, which monitors and manages transport flows worldwide, warns its customers about rising fuel prices, cyber attacks and restrictions on air transport. ‘Containers are stuck in all kinds of places around the world and we have to find alternatives for customers to get their goods to their destinations,’ says director of operations Mike Heijnen. It’s all hands on deck for us at the moment and we’re trying to help our customers as best we can with creative solutions.
Patrick Haex of Buck Consultants notes that many questions are coming in about the re-routing of goods flows en route to Russia. ‘Customers want to store or re-rout goods in transit in Western Europe or in Finland. After all, products that are in Russia are difficult to remove and sell elsewhere. More and more service providers are also no longer accepting bookings to Russia, such as DHL and Kuehne + Nagel, for example.
According to Haex, all this depends on the incoterms that companies have agreed: is the buying or the selling party responsible for the transport before and after? And does the selling party want to export the goods to Russia at all? Currency agreements are also very relevant at the moment. The sanctions have caused the ruble to fall dramatically in a short space of time, so if you are paid in rubles but you buy in dollars, it is questionable whether transactions are still profitable.
Reshoring gaining momentum
In the somewhat longer term, Haex believes the conflict will lead to more reshoring: European companies pulling their production activities back from Asia and going back to producing closer to the market. Companies want to reduce the vulnerability of their supply chains. That trend already started during the corona epidemic, but the geopolitical tensions around Ukraine will make it more urgent, I expect. With fuel prices exploding and with them transportation costs, the make in region, sell in region principle will only become more attractive.’
Transition to non-fossil
According to Gerard Ekhart, this is perhaps the positive side of this otherwise so incredibly tragic conflict. As a business doctor and trend watcher in the manufacturing industry, he has been hammering on the need for companies to break away from their CO2-emitting and earth-depleting supply chains for some time. ‘I think the war will magnify the already existing energy crisis and accelerate the transition. This shock wave may cause companies that are still dragging stuff from one side of the earth to the other to finally make the transition to non-fossil fuel. The technology for this has existed for a long time, but management always held back. If the price of oil continues to rise and we want to be less dependent on Russian gas within Europe, this will soon change.’
A ray of hope in the current crisis, he says, is the enormous unity that currently exists within the European Union. That, too, is necessary for an energy transition, because as a country you can’t do it on your own. And just as we are now suddenly working very closely together in Europe in the area of defense, we must also do this with our industrial policy and the building of sustainable supply chains. In fact, in Europe only the automotive industry is still relatively autonomous, other industries we have dismantled in Europe and largely relocated to other parts of the world. We will have to restore this but with clean technology. Supply chain people have to take the lead in this.’
The war in Europe is terrible and, above all, brings a lot of misery. The whole world sympathizes with the people in Ukraine who are fighting for their lives and freedom. The challenges facing the supply chain community are not comparable. Most acute for them are international shipments hampered by rising fuel prices, disruptions and closures of supply routes, cyber attacks and driver shortages. It will prompt companies to make their supply chains less vulnerable in the future and bring production back to Europe. If they then simultaneously make the much-needed transition to a sustainable supply chain, that is a side effect that can still be called somewhat positive.
Ukraine | War can accelerate sustainability of supply chains | is written by Harm Beerens | for magazine SCM – Supply Chain Media


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Welcome to the 97th installment of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China’s top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it features a business news roundup, plus conversations with Caixin reporters and editors.
- We hear that China and the U.S. agreed to hold yet another round of trade talks in Washington in early October, after a phone call with the two sides’ highest-level trade officials.
- We note that the Shanghai government has asked China’s dominant ride-hailing company, Didi Chuxing, to clean up its act.
- We chat about Alibaba’s plan to pay $2 billion to acquire cross-border ecommerce platform Kaola from NetEase.
- We discuss frenzied scenes at the opening of the first Chinese mainland branch of U.S. wholesale giant Costco in Shanghai last week.
- We analyze dating platform Momo’s release of a face-swap, or deepfake, app called Zao, whose popularity soon turned to privacy concerns after it was revealed that the user agreement gave Momo permanent global rights over people’s images they submitted.
- We report that U.S. plant-based meat producer Impossible Foods is seeking to bring its alternative meat product to dining tables in China, but regulatory hurdles will pose the biggest uncertainty of its journey.
- We find out that controversial artificial intelligence specialist and IPO candidate Megvii (pronounced MEG-VEE) is finding itself at the center of yet another debate, this time on how its products may infringe on students’ privacy.
- We dive into Huawei’s new 5G chip, which will power the company’s coming Mate 30 smartphones, the world’s first all-in-one 5G system on a chip, at a trade show in Berlin.
In addition, we talk with Caixin Global reporter Olivia Ryan about dengue fever, a transmissible disease that’s spreading now in China.


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With one out of three adults in the U.S. being considered sleep deprived, the Center for Disease Control has dubbed insufficient sleep a public health epidemic.
While people have trouble sleeping for a variety of different reasons (stress, anxiety, health issues), another factor interrupting your sleep cycle may be something as ubiquitous as light.
Harvard research has found, “Blue wavelengths — which are beneficial during daylight hours because they boost attention, reaction times, and mood — seem to be the most disruptive at night. And the proliferation of electronics with screens, as well as energy-efficient lighting, is increasing our exposure to blue wavelengths, especially after sundown.” In other words, if you feel like truly restful sleep is becoming harder to achieve, it may be due to the blue wavelengths, otherwise known as blue light, created by those Instagram holes you dive down at 11:30 PM or your recently installed LED lights.
Worse, not only does exposure to blue light in the evening result in a poor night’s sleep, but numerous studies have also found that blue light at night is linked to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.
Blue light is a type of visible light emitted by the sun. Blue rays combined with red, orange, yellow, and green rays make up the spectrum of colored light rays to create what we call “white light” or sunlight.
Blue light has the shortest wavelengths and highest energy, meaning it is very bright and very energizing, causing it to suppress melatonin, the hormone that induces sleep. This is beneficial in the morning as it wakes you up, but counterproductive in the evenings when trying to go to bed. Luckily, as the sun sets, the light it emits transitions from blue to warm yellow/red, which naturally notifies your body to start producing melatonin and prepare for sleep.
Unlike the sun, digital screens, electronic devices, and fluorescent and LED lighting continue emitting blue light, no matter what time of day it is.
As Medical Daily has put it, “Blue light emission at night manipulates the production of the sleep hormone melatonin, leading the brain to believe it’s daylight, or time for wakefulness.” Thus, keeping you up past your bedtime.
Night Shift For Your Phone
As these health effects come to light, science-based technology solutions are being created. Apple users in particular are seeing the promotion of healthy lighting habits appear in the form of Night Shift, a setting on the iPhone that transitions the phone screen from a bright white/blue light to a warm yellow light as soon as the sun goes down. A similar product you may be familiar with is f.lux, a software that adapts your computer’s display light to the time of day — white/blue during the day and yellow at night.
Night Shift and f.lux are providing better solutions for our devices, but what about all those energy efficient light bulbs we put in our homes in hopes of saving the planet?
Adaptive Lighting For Your Home
LED light bulbs are an appealing lighting option because not only do they require 85% less energy to produce the same amount of light as an incandescent, but they can also last 12–15 years longer before needing to be replaced, making them better for the environment and your wallet. Unfortunately, the problem we are now facing is that the blue light from LEDs is detrimental to your health when you’re exposed to it in the evening. Adaptive lighting solves this so your body and home are in tune with nature’s clock.
Adaptive lighting is like Night Shift for your home. As the sun goes down, lights that were once white and energizing automatically transition to warm yellow light that helps you ease naturally into your sleep cycle, so you can get the snooze you deserve. While Apple and f.lux are blanketing your electronics in natural light, Twist is blanketing your home in it.
As technology evolves to help us thrive, don’t you think our light bulbs should too?
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Bon Jovi adds second Seattle concert, tickets on sale tomorrow, presale today
Apparently, interest in Bon Jovi’s future Circle Tour concert on February 19, 2010 in Key Arena was so intense that a second concert date has been added for Saturday, February 20th.
And of course, yet again, there’s a ticket presale over on Ticketmaster today from 10 am to 10 pm. Use the password: NEWJERSEY
Last month when tickets for the first concert went on sale we told you there was a catch – you had to buy the new album to get presale tickets. You can still do that with this second concert.
Tickets go on sale for the general public, and for people who tend to yawn over presales, on Saturday, December 5th at 10 am.


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Virgin Voyages, the new cruise line established by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, revealed it would be cruising to Cuba from Miami on its Caribbean itineraries, and at the same time announced an order for a fourth cruise ship.
“We’re delighted to confirm that we’ve entered into a contract with Fincantieri to build the fourth ship in our fleet, and we will be sharing additional details soon,” a spokesperson for Virgin Voyages told Cruise Critic.
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The fourth cruise ship will be identical to the three already on order. The contract was signed by Virgin Voyages at the Fincantieri shipyard where Scarlet Lady, the first of Virgin’s ships, is being built. Steel for the second ship has already been cut, and the first delivery is scheduled for 2020, followed by a ship a year until 2023.
Each ship will carry 2,770 passengers, with an adults-only focused cruise experience, and will cost roughly US $790-million to build.
Virgin Voyages also announced this week that Havana, Cuba will be one of the destinations it cruises to on its roundtrip Caribbean itineraries from Miami. The announcement was made by Sir Richard Branson via Instagram, who said it was one of his favourite cities in the world.
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“Virgin Atlantic has been visiting Cuba for 13 years, and I cannot wait to see our iconic Scarlet Lady gleaming in the Havana Harbour,” Branson said in a follow-up media statement. “Havana is the perfect place for our sailors to go and experience a city that exudes an irresistible energy and passion.”
“We are thrilled to share the news about our partnership with Cuba and can’t wait to take our sailors to Havana, which is without doubt, one of the Caribbean’s most authentic and enriching destinations,” added Virgin Voyages’ president and CEO Tom McAlpin.
Virgin Voyages’ first ship Scarlet Lady will be adults-only with a focus on wellness and relaxation.
“This fantastic place offers the chance for our sailors to create their own unique stories as they uncover cultural treasures, meet the locals and just soak up the atmosphere,” he said.
All Virgin Voyages’ Cuba sailings from Miami will feature an overnight stay in Havana, while OFAC-compliant shore experiences are in development. Once those regulatory hurdles have been ironed out, the cruise line will reveal further details in 2019.
Virgin Voyages said the decision to sail to Cuba was influenced by customer and travel partner research conducted in North America and the United Kingdom, the cruise line’s two primary target markets.
The entry of Virgin Voyages to the Cuba cruise scene comes following an explosion of interest in travel to the country following former US President Barack Obama’s ‘Cuban thaw’.
Since then, MSC Cruises, Royal Caribbean, Carnival Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Line and several dozen others have added the city to Caribbean cruise itineraries for 2019 onwards.
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LG Chem Stories March 23
LG Chem Stories December 14, 2021
To meet increasing market demand, lithium-ion battery resource recovery specialists Li-Cycle has announced plans to increase the processing capacity of an upcoming New York facility by 40%. In addition to expanding its US battery recycling footprint, Li-Cycle has also entered into a letter of intent with LG to create a closed-loop battery ecosystem.
LG Chem Stories February 5, 2021
Electric vehicle sales seem to be growing by the minute in the US. Although they still only have a tiny corner of the auto market cornered, astronomical valuations of industry leaders like Tesla offer a glimpse at the potential of a virtually nascent market. In order to bring costs down even further to entice consumers, the US has plans to amplify battery production on its home soil over the next decade. With global competitors miles ahead, does the US have the technology, or more importantly the resources, to gain ground in the EV battery market?
LG Chem Stories December 30, 2020
LG has signed a massive agreement to reportedly invest close to $10 billion in Indonesia to make batteries in the country.
LG Chem Stories December 17, 2020
The relationship between Tesla and LG Chem appears to be growing stronger lately, and now we learn of a new deal for the latter to supply a nickel-based battery to the automaker, according to a new report.
LG Chem Stories December 2, 2020
LG Chem plans to apparently more than double its battery cell production in order to support demand from one of its newer customers: Tesla.
LG Chem Stories October 21, 2020
LG Chem, who recently started supplying Tesla with cylindrical battery cells, announced that it is preparing to triple cylindrical cell production.
The company even hinted that it would make its own battery cells like Tesla’s new 4680 cell.
LG Chem Stories September 28, 2020
Tesla is looking to acquire a stake in LG’s upcoming separated battery business, according to a surprising new report.
LG Chem Stories July 3, 2020
Tesla has reportedly secured more battery supply from LG Chem who is going to assign capacity from a Korean factory to the California-based automaker. expand full story
LG Chem Stories April 28, 2020
The Korea Herald reports that pre-pandemic shortages of battery supply, which caused delays for European automakers, have been made worse by the global crisis. The situation became urgent enough for the Polish government to waive travel restrictions, allowing 200 LG Chem technicians to resume expansion of its battery gigafactory in Wroclaw.
LG Chem Stories February 25, 2020
LG Chem Stories December 5, 2019
GM has announced a new joint-venture with LG Chem to build their own battery gigafactory, which will have 30 GWh of annual capacity, in Ohio.
The two companies promise a new “industry-leading cost per kilowatt hours” in GM’s future electric vehicles. expand full story
In July it was announced that LG Chem was working on a potential new billion-dollar US battery cell factory for electric cars. Today in a security filing in South Korea, LG Chem confirmed that investment, and that GM will invest another billion.
Reuters reports that the location is expected to be in the area of Lordstown, Ohio, where GM (pictured in Detroit) recently sold its factory to an EV startup affiliated with Workhorse. This follows news earlier this week that Piedmont Lithium received an important federal permit to proceed with its lithium mine in Gaston County, North Carolina — the second in North America. Looks like Interstate 77 will be America’s hot new lithium corridor.
LG Chem Stories August 23, 2019
Tesla has reportedly signed a battery supply deal with LG Chem for Gigafactory 3 in China. It would be Tesla’s first deal to supply battery cells for its electric vehicles with a company other than Panasonic. expand full story
LG Chem Stories July 11, 2019
LG Chem, one of the leading producers of Li-Ion battery cells for electric cars, is working on a potential new billion-dollar US battery cell factory. expand full story
LG Chem Stories April 30, 2019
LG Chem, one of the top battery suppliers for electric vehicles, filed federal lawsuits against SK Innovation (SKI), another top battery supplier for electric vehicles, over allegedly stealing trade secrets. expand full story
LG Chem Stories February 21, 2019
VW has long been considering to build its own gigafactories to produce a high number of battery cells for its upcoming electric vehicles, but we now learn that LG reportedly killed the plans by threatening to cut VW’s current battery cell supply. expand full story
LG Chem Stories November 30, 2018
Demand for electric vehicle batteries is rising at an incredible pace, and battery manufacturers like LG Chem are trying to keep up and accelerate their investments.
LG announced this week that it is investing half a billion in its Polish battery factory to increase production to an impressive 70 GWh per year. expand full story
LG Chem Stories October 8, 2018
With new electric vehicles coming to market at an increasing pace and demand growing rapidly, securing battery suppliers is becoming a top priority for automakers serious about electrification.
In order to do that, VW created a ‘task force’ with battery supplier LG Chem. expand full story
LG Chem Stories May 17, 2018
China’s protectionist laws are currently being relaxed when it comes to electric vehicles, but there are still some rigorous restrictions. For example, Chinese electric vehicles need to be powered by Chinese batteries.
A new report now shows that Geely found a workaround for Volvo’s electric vehicles by using Korean batteries made in China and the competition isn’t happy about it. expand full story
LG Chem Stories October 12, 2017
LG is trying to position itself as an important new auto supplier for the transition to electric vehicles. The Chevy Bolt EV helped them recently since they manufacture several of the most important systems for the electric car, especially the battery pack through its LG Chem division.
Now the company announced that it will support the production of 100,000 electric cars per year with new battery factory in Poland. expand full story
LG Chem Stories February 17, 2017
Korea-based electronic giant LG is making most of the components that make the Chevy Bolt EV an electric vehicle, including the battery pack, electric motor, and power electronics, and the battery packs for the Volt. Therefore, its production capacity will determine GM’s total output for what is currently its only all-electric vehicle in production.
In what could be a good sign for the Bolt EV and the Volt, LG announced this week an expansion of its production facility in Holland, Michigan. expand full story
LG Chem Stories December 19, 2016
Earlier this month, Lucid Motors announced a partnership with Samsung SDI to supply a custom li-ion battery cell that they developed with the Korean electronic giant for Lucid’s all-electric sedan, which they finally unveiled last week.
Today, the automaker announced that they secured a second battery cell supply contract – this time with LG Chem. expand full story
LG Chem Stories October 26, 2016
As Tesla is set to unveil its second generation home battery pack, the Powerwall, on Friday, LG Chem announced today that it is bringing its own home battery pack to the US market. The South Korean company is partnering with SunRun, a solar installer that was already distributing the Tesla Powerwall. expand full story
LG Chem Stories October 3, 2016
Last month, we reported on Faraday Future reportedly signing a massive $2.4 billion supply contract with LG Chem for battery cells. Today, the startup confirmed the supply agreement with LG without talking about the actual size of the contract.
Though the electric vehicle startup did release new details. For example, they say that they “worked closely with LG Chem to develop unique chemistry requirements for FF products”. They claim that the result is “the world’s highest energy density [cell] for a production automotive battery.” expand full story
LG Chem Stories August 5, 2016
Back in 2007, Nissan and NEC, a Japenese tech giant, created a battery manufacturing company, Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC), in order to eventually supply the automaker’s electric vehicle programs. Both companies have since each invested hundreds of millions in the venture, which started producing the battery cells for the Nissan Leaf in 2010.
At some point in 2014, it became one of the largest electric vehicle battery manufacturers, second only to Panasonic, Tesla’s battery cell supplier. The joint-venture has since lost market shares and Nissan has been quite opened about looking to partner with someone else for future EV programs, like it’s new 60 kWh battery pack.
Now we learn that the automaker is looking to sell its shares in AESC and Panasonic could be a buyer. expand full story
LG Chem Stories June 28, 2016
A new research report from Lux Research looked into the projected growth of the battery sector for electric vehicles (BEVs and PHEVs) and concluded that the market will rise to $10 Billion in 2020 with six large carmakers led by Tesla accounting for 90% of the demand. expand full story
LG Chem Stories May 17, 2016
Tesla often said that the Model 3’s $35,000 price tag was dependent on the company achieving its battery cost reduction goals at the Gigafactory. Recently, Tesla officials said that the Gigafactory should no longer be seen as a constraint in the Model 3 supply chain and that the company is confident in its capacity to start producing battery cells.
The factory was first presented as having a full annual output capacity of 35 GWh of battery cells and 50 GWh of battery packs – with the difference in cells being imported from other manufacturers, like Tesla’s Gigafactory partner Panasonic, but also other possible cells suppliers.
Now it looks like Tesla is looking to South Korea to diversify its battery cell supply chain for the Model 3. expand full story
LG Chem Stories January 19, 2016
Amnesty International and Afrewatch published a new investigative report (embedded below) explaining in details the global supply chain of cobalt and the use of child labor to source the mineral in Congo.
The report highlights the failure of certain electronics and electric car companies to ensure that the cobalt used in their batteries is not sourced using child labor. It names several automakers like Mercedes, VW and BYD, as well as several battery manufacturers known to supply automakers, like LG Chem (GM and Nissan). The report also goes after electronic giants Apple, Samsung and others. expand full story
LG Chem Stories November 26, 2015
LG Chem Stories October 27, 2015
Tesla builds its own battery packs, but imports the several thousands battery cells needed per pack from suppliers, mainly Panasonic. The automaker is heavily investing to change that by building the Gigafactory, in partnership with Panasonic, to manufacture both the cells and battery packs in the Nevada desert east of Reno.
But the planned output of the factory is 35 GWh in battery cells and 50 GWh in battery packs, meaning the Gigafactory will need to import 15 GWh of battery cells. Tesla already confirmed its intention to source the cells from more than one suppliers “potentially including Panasonic”, and today we learn through a new report from Asia Nikkei that the company is reportedly in the final stages of negotiations with LG Chem. expand full story
LG Chem Stories October 21, 2015
Following yesterday’s announcement that GM is expanding its partnership with LG and will source a significant percentage of the parts for the Chevy Bolt from the electronic giant, LG is now announcing that it is accelerating battery production at the Holland plant in Michigan.
In a press release for the announcement, LG Chem Michigan President Nick Kassanos takes a swipe at Tesla, or at least at the media attention the company has been receiving for its own battery factory project: the Gigafactory. expand full story
LG Chem Stories October 5, 2015
LG Chem to build a new battery factory for electric cars in Europe
South Korean news outlets are reporting that the electronic giant LG Chem will build a new factory to produce batteries for electric cars in Europe. The new plant will reportedly have an annual production capacity of 50,000 battery packs, making it of similar size as the company’s Holland, Michigan plant where the company produces battery packs for the Chevy Volt and eventually the Bolt.


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VW/The Blue Academy
For the launch of Polo Blue GT Rascal created an online academy in order to educate people around the innovation around the new polo blue GT.
Volkswagen wanted to launch the new polo blue GT in the Greek market. The first problem we had to deal with, was the amount of information we had to communicate, since the new Polo was the first car at the time that carried along the all new ACT technology that combines economy and performance in one engine.In order to do so, we came up with an idea to create an online academy, basically a branded community who’s objective was to educate and recruit test drives for the new Polo blue GT.The Blue Academy was a series of interactive tests that people had to solve in order to get an exclusive certificate of efficient driving and at the same time enjoy a test drive with the new Polo.The campaign was launched with a 2min explanatory film about the new Polo Blue GT followed by the bluacademy website. At the end of the activaiton one of the certified drivers had the chance to spend a month with the new Polo Blue GT and share his experience through VW’s social media.Share this


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In another reminder that the economy may be slowing, the U.S. Labor Department reported that truck driving jobs fell by 1,900 in March. This disappointing report indicated that the economy may not be growing with sufficient strength to ensure healthy job growth.
Labor also reported that the unemployment rate dropped a bit, but that was due to more Americans who stopped searching for work.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association failed in their bid to curtail the use of electronic onboard recorders. The Seventh Circuit US Court of Appeals summarily denied OOIDA's appeal to cease any encouragement of the recording devices use until such time as the presiding agency could review and reissue the rules governing the use of these devices. No reasons for the denial of the request were released.
The Transport Capital Partners recently conducted a new study surveying truck drivers in order to gain knowledge as to whether or not the capacity of trucks will increase. 25 percent of the truckload carriers are expecting the capacity of their load to increase by anywhere from six to ten percent over the next twelve months. This is compared to a 7 percent increase one year ago. However, according to the survey, 65 percent of trucking executives either do not plan to add capacity or plan on barely adding any capacity at all.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration unveiled the results of new research this week concerning the proposal of limiting the top speed of commercial trucks. According to the results of the research, the use of technology to electronically watch over and limit the speed of commercial trucks has a clear safety benefit for not only the truck drivers, but everyone else on the road as well.
The latest release of truck tonnage numbers shows that truck freight volumes continue to rise in 2012, despite a post-holiday decrease in January.
The seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage index, a crucial sign of trucking activity, increased by 0.5 percent in February, the American Trucking Associations announced Tuesday, March 27. The adjusted index rose from 118.7 in January to 119.3 in February.
The ATA's chief economist, Bob Costello, said those results mirror what he has been hearing from truckers on the road.
One of the primary transmissions suppliers for commercial trucks is Eaton. The Class 8 sector is completely dominated by Eaton transmissions, which also maintain a powerful presence in Classes 6 and 7. Still, as the transmissions market continues to slowly shift, other names have been slowly gaining ground. Mack, for instance, has a line of manual gearboxes, although it also markets Eaton transmissions with a few of its models.
Though diesel prices have historically been lower than gasoline prices, prices are now soaring. With diesel prices rising high above gasoline prices, many small trucking companies are being suffocated and forced to close their doors.
The majority of American trucking companies operate less than 20 trucks, operating as small, locally owned businesses. These small companies are faced with fierce competition from the few big name trucking companies.
Celedon Trucking Services wins Alcoa’s Van Carrier of the Year award.
The award is given in recognition for top performance by trucking companies. To win the award, trucking companies must excel in a variety of different measurement categories. Each category is designed to highlight a critical aspect of the trucking business.


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Appleheads in Philadelphia will have to wait a bit longer for their first bite of a Center City Apple Store.
Ever since the large wooden scaffolding that hid the glass exterior of the building at 1607 Walnut St. was removed to reveal the streetside facade for the store, rumors abounded that the opening would be this Friday. Alas, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
The newest speculation from an insider very familiar with Apple Store openings said it’s likely that the opening will be July 30.
“The tip I received late last week said the grand opening was pushed back one week to July 30th for an unknown reason,” the insider said. “I just checked Apple’s store list and two other U.S. stores have been added as opening this weekend (Lexington Ky., Columbus, Ohio), but not Walnut Street. I believe the Philadelphia store would be listed by now on that Web page if it were to open this [weekend].”
An Apple spokeswoman said yesterday no information is available about the store’s opening.


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Oregon State’s online and hybrid MBA programs set students up for career success
Oregon State University’s MBA in Supply Chain and Logistics Management now offers a hybrid (in-person and online) model with classes online through top-ranked Oregon State Ecampus and in person in the OSU Portland Center at Pioneer Square in downtown Portland, Oregon.
This new model provides you access to the educational environment that fits your needs: One that pairs the flexibility of online learning with the in-person networking you crave.
Watch the video above to hear directly from MBA alumni on how the program helped them obtain – and advance – their careers. And learn more at http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/mba-supply-chain


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Just two days ago, the Internet was set ablaze by an LG Facebook post that said that any device with Gingerbread required a 1GHz processor, and because of that requirement, its line of Optimus Android phones wouldn't be upgraded to Android 2.3. Yesterday the company said that that information came out prematurely and that they'd consider moving the Optimus family to 2.3, and today the entire saga comes to an end. LG just announced that all of its Optimus One smartphones will receive the update to Android 2.3 and that the upgrades will be announced later on. The full statement is as follows:
LG will upgrade all Optimus One smartphones currently using the Froyo OS to the next version of the Android OS, Gingerbread. Details of the upgrade schedule will be announced locally in due course. We sincerely apologize for the confusion and misunderstanding that was caused regarding this issue.
They didn't mention the Vortex, Optimus S, T, M, or U specifically, but it's probably a safe bet that they'll all get their own helping of Gingerbread. It's tough to say when exactly that'll happen thanks to things like carrier testing, but at least now you can buy an Optimus phone without having to worry about being stuck at Android 2.2 forever.


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Three-row Porsche model reportedly in development
If you want a Porsche crossover, there are only two models to choose from – the Macan and the Cayenne. Three, if you consider the Taycan Cross Turismo as well. But still, the current flagship crossover is the Cayenne. Unlike most flagship models which have three rows of seats, the Cayenne is a two-row model only. But it seems the German marque is planning an even bigger model to expand their crossover lineup.
According to Automotive News, Porsche is supposedly working on a crossover that's longer and wider than the Cayenne. Unlike the current mid-size SUV, this upcoming model could have 7 seats. Allegedly, the automaker showed renders of a possibly larger model to dealers at a recent meeting, and it could arrive in the second half of the decade.
While we don't have photos, a dealer who spoke with Automotive News says the crossover will look nothing like the current Macan and Cayenne. In addition, it could use a plug-in hybrid powertrain at launch followed by an all-electric version to meet the automaker's shift to slowly phase out internal combustion engine models.
A larger 7-seat crossover could greatly benefit Porsche in terms of sales. Earlier this year, the automaker announced that the Cayenne continues to be their best-selling model followed by the Macan. With that in mind, the introduction of a full-size crossover in the coming years seems right. The automaker could also build the full-size SUV with other Volkswagen Group brands, such as Audi and Volkswagen themselves.
What do you think of Porsche possibly expanding their crossover lineup? Is it about time Porsche offered a three-row crossover? Let us know in the comments.


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JW Burress has filled the only missing piece in its arsenal of dirt-moving equipment.
The Virginia-based dealership has taken on the full Dressta line, which focuses on its crawler dozer.
“This is a great fit, because we’ve been able to have all types of earthmoving equipment, with this exception,” said Bill Daly, senior vice president.
JW Burress, as of March 1, is the authorized Dressta dealer in Maryland, southern Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
The dealership has already completed initial sales training at its branches and will continue to do so as the products start to roll in.
The same is true for Burress’ technicians, although Daly said Dressta machines have familiar hydraulics and undercarriages, “so there is not a huge learning curve.”
He said the company has “heavily invested” in parts for Dressta machines “so customers can rely on us for parts support.”
Daly said he has found Dressta to have a “cult following” among contractors and the machines are already familiar to the customer base.
The addition of the Dressta line comes as a result of Dressta North America’s separation from Komatsu America. In 2005, HSW-Trading Co. purchased Komatsu’s portion of Dressta and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Dressta North America. Since then, Dressta has been changing distributorships where required in North America.
Tom McGonigle, president of Dressta North America, said Burress customers will be seeing a series of new models at the branches in the coming months as it redesigns to allow for the installation of Tier II and Tier III compliant engines and makes other product improvements. In addition to the crawler dozer, it manufactures crawler loaders and wheel loaders. Most recently, it introduced its M series line of 74- to 10-hp (55 to 75.3 kW) crawler dozers.
Dressta machines are manufactured in Poland. CEG Staff
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FEATURE STORY/continued frompage 29 technology categories so farmers can easilymatch traitswith the specific needs of their farms. Those categories are herbicide tolerance (symbolized by aweed graphic), insect protection (depicted by a bug),weather protection (represented by a stormcloud and sun) and increased productivity (shownwith an upward arrow). THOROUGHLYRESEARCHED DonnaHeckler, Brand Strategy Lead forMonsanto, says the process of creating a newtrait family brand began in 2007with a brand audit that clearly demonstrated the need for a simpler approach. “We saw howmany distinctMonsanto brand logos andmessageswere going into themarketplace and then laid out all the newproducts in our R&D pipeline thatwill be introduced over the next 20 years,” she explains. “Whenwe asked ourselveswhat is the true benefit to farmers,we real- ized the need to communicate the benefits of our traits together, as a family,versus individual pieces.” Heckler saysMonsanto then launched an “enormous” research process, one involving literally hun- dreds of participants throughout the Kevin Holloway,Monsanto U.S. Commercial Operations Lead company—not only frommarket- ing, but also fromother disciplines, including technology, legal, trade- marks, research and productman- agement. External groups, including seed dealers, retailers andMonsanto seed licensees, also provided input. Farmers, of course, also played a key role. Through numerous focus group sessions,Heckler says they not only provided feedback on dif- ferent name choices but alsowere instrumental in helpingMonsanto create the icon system. “We looked at literally hundreds of icons,” she explains. “Farmer input helped us identify the four trait categories to be represented by the icon systemand determine how to best graphically depict them.” Having introduced Genuity at Commodity Classic,Monsanto is now focused on communicating the new brand to farmers and other external stakeholders. “Managing a new brand is an ongoing challenge,” Heckler says. “We’ll be looking at how we build the Genuity brand, how we com- municate it and how we help farmers understand it.” SUPPORTING CAMPAIGN Monsanto says a Genuitymarket- ing campaign will soon be rolling out to introduce farmers to this exciting new brand. Heckler adds that the process of creating Genuity was valuable not only in creating a unified trait brand but, more broadly, in helping to rein- forceMonsanto’s overallmission as a company focused solely on agriculture. “It’s important to recognizewhat reallymatters to our customers to help thembe successful and then to answer that need. The Genuity brand has helped to further strengthen that company culture,” she says. AM One Million New Scientists. One Million New Ideas. TM It wasa 4-H experiment in roboticsthat sparked the imagination of a young girl, that became a passion for engineering, that created new designs and new sources of energy to power a growing world. Companiesand universitiesaround the country are embracing the 4-H commitment of fostering one million young scientists and engineersover the next five years. With their help, 4-H isgrowing the next generation of great thinkers. To learn more about America'slargest youth development organization, visit www.4-H.org. 30 Agri Marketing s April 2009
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The new iPad is hotter…literally
Andy Ruffell / 7 years ago
Apple’s new iPad is in fact having a lot of success, with sales reaching over 3 millions already, it is, however, reported to run hotter than the previous iPad 2.
Even though Futuremark has confirmed that the ‘new’ processor performs same as the ‘old’ one, the device still runs other, as was first noticed by The Verge and later confirmed by Tweakers.net.
After putting the new tablet under an infrared camera, its was revealed that the new iPad can get to 33.6 degrees Celsius, which is 18.7% hotter than the iPad 2.
The hottest point that was recorded was in the lower right part, which is where the processor is located. However, Tweakers.net didn’t test it with LTE.
This is only one of the many test that are to come, a lot has already been done, but expect more testing to surface later.


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Volkswagen breaks new ground in automotive quantum computing
- Volkswagen was first automaker to demo a practical application of quantum computing for route and traffic management
- For almost five years, Volkswagen experts have been researching to find new ways to apply quantum computing to everyday challenges
Quantum computing is still very much in its nascent phase with only a handful of organizations across various industries in the world making strides beyond research and into practical applications. Notably, German automaker Volkswagen has been working on applying it to the automotive industry for over five years now.
In fact, the motor vehicle manufacturer was the first automaker to demonstrate a practical application of quantum computing for route and traffic management. “Everything we learn now can give us an advantage in the future,” director of Volkswagen Group Data, Florian Neukart, said once about the potential applications of quantum computing. “Some challenges and questions in fields like material science may only be solvable through quantum computing. In other areas, we can take a problem that might require a week of classical computing power and finish it in a day or less.”
Though it may seem like a bit of an experimental flight of fancy to introduce quantum computing, it’s not something that VW is doing just because it can. The German company has real substance behind its investment into applications of quantum computing. “We’re not interested in doing research for research’s sake. We want to bring this technology into the real world,” Neukart stressed.
What is Volkswagen doing for the automotive industry?
McKinsey in a report highlighted that “quantum computers have the potential to resolve problems of this complexity and magnitude across many different industries and applications, including finance, transportation, chemicals, and cybersecurity.
That said, Volkswagen had said in a recent news release that Volkswagen Group of America has one of the most aggressive portfolios of technology developments in the automotive sector — from artificial intelligence to cloud computing and beyond. “That also includes research and development in quantum computing, a space where Volkswagen has worked alongside key innovators to bring cutting-edge innovation into real-world use,” it said.
— Volkswagen Group (@VWGroup) September 30, 2019
Within the automotive sector, Volkswagen Group has led the way in launching a dedicated team for quantum computing research in 2016. For almost five years now, Volkswagen experts have been researching to find new ways to apply quantum computing to everyday challenges. About 10 people work with quantum computing at Volkswagen in the U.S and Germany. Since 2017, Volkswagen has been teaming up with Canadian quantum computing firm D-Wave, and later joined with Google’s quantum computing unit for research.
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Neukart also emphasized how “many challenges in the automotive industry can benefit from the inherent power quantum computing can generate.” One major field is mobility: in 2019, the Volkswagen team worked with D-Wave to demonstrate the first-live traffic-routing system to rely on quantum computing.
The test utilized buses in Lisbon, Portugal, to predict traffic volumes and route trips to minimize wait times for passengers and travel times for the buses, avoiding traffic jams and making the traffic flow as efficient as possible. “And the team has many more ideas and ongoing projects,” Volkswagen’s lead data scientist, David Von Dollen, clarified. The Volkswagen team has also applied quantum computing to vehicle pricing to help strike the right balance for customer demand. Further afield, they see the potential for other uses, such as developing new materials or figuring out where new electric vehicle charging stations should be located to maximize their usefulness.
It is perhaps important to note that many companies and businesses won’t be able to reap significant value from quantum computing for a decade or more, although a few will see gains in the next five years, according to McKinsey. “But the potential is so great, and the technological advances are coming so rapidly, that every business leader should have a basic understanding of how the technology works, the kinds of problems it can help solve, and how she or he should prepare to harness its potential.”
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Nestle SA said Friday that it has acquired a majority interest in organic plant-based foods and snack company Terrafertil.
Nestle said the move widens its presence in Latin America, the United States and the United Kingdom. No financial details of the transaction have been made available.
Terrafertil employs 400 people and has four factories in Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. It was founded in 2005 and is managed by three founding brothers.
The transaction includes all of Terrafertil’s operations and assets in the seven countries where it operates. Nestle said that Terrafertil will continue to be managed by its founders and will operate as a stand-alone entity.
By Anthony Shevlin
A new wave of brands is emerging that promotes indulgence and rejects the notion of sacrifice. Low-maintenance “hangover” beauty products are designed to address the effects of late nights and partying without judgment or hassle, and even include cosmetics that are formulated in a way that means you can fall asleep in your makeup without feeling guilty.
The pilot will allow the company to scale circular packaging in about 18 markets over the next three years, an approach that jumps on the success of similar efforts in the company’s Indonesia ecoSPIRITS program, which launched in 2022 and is active in 38 bars.
Unilever’s focus on purpose across its brands has been a source of criticism from some of its investors. Its new CEO Hein Schumacher says the company now recognises there are some brands where the concept is simply not relevant.


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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Investors & Mossberg Jump on Palm Pre Bandwagon
This Summer's first blockbuster has arrived- but it's not at your local movie theater, its at your local Smartphone Dealer. Five days after the Palm Pre launch, stock is up 1.37 , (11.44%), for Palm Inc, (NASDAQ:PALM),while its carrier, Sprint (NYSE:S), is UP 0.30, (6%).
Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walt Mossberg said Palm Pre may rival the iPhone. Considering the recent release of the 3GS iPhone specs, Palm Inc's are surely hoping this news can stem the wave of momentum Steve Jobs and Apple generated early this week. Who will win this battle, with Apple and AT&T tag-teaming against Palm Inc and Sprint? Only time will tell, but I'm betting on the A-Team.
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London Drugs offers shelf space to support restaurants impacted by COVID-19
After offering their shelf space to small businesses impacted by COVID-19 last April, London Drugs will now do the same for restaurants.
In select locations in BC and Alberta, London Drugs has transformed its centre aisles into Local Central, a dedicated space to help local businesses sell their products.
On Wednesday, the company announced that they are expanding their Local Central program to support restaurants in Western Canada that have been affected by pandemic-related public health measures.
Restaurants with specialty house brand items suitable for retail sales are invited to submit them to London Drugs for immediate consideration to be stocked and sold on store shelves. Items that will be considered include sauces, jams, rubs, apparel and more.
“The collateral damage to small businesses created by the pandemic has been devastating and, the restaurant industry — particularly those small and locally-owned — have sustained one of the heaviest blows,” explained Clint Mahlman, President and COO of London Drugs, in a news release.
As an essential service, London Drugs locations are open and have the ability to help small businesses stay afloat amidst public health restrictions.
“As a company, we want to offer any support we can to restaurateurs and businesses in our communities right now, and we know our customers do too,” said Mahlman.
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London Drugs launched their Local Central program one year ago and has supported more than 100 local businesses in that time.
According to the news release, the program has helped small businesses earn hundreds of thousands of dollars when they might otherwise have had no revenue due to pandemic-related closures.
“The last year has pushed local businesses – including London Drugs – to become incredibly nimble,” said Mahlman. “One of the most public ways this has played out has been in the quick response of local restaurants and businesses to sudden closures and evolving distancing measures.”
“With the Local Central program already in place, we are in a unique position to offer support quickly.”
London Drugs says that it is ready to review product submissions immediately, and local restaurants could see their packaged products and merchandise on store shelves within the week.
The program is open to restaurants based in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. To submit products for review, restaurant owners can visit the online application.


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Washington, DC — The National Consumers League (NCL), the nation’s pioneering consumer and worker advocacy organization today expressed its disappointment with the introduction by Rep. Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Peter Welch of the “Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2015.” The following statement may be attributed to John Breyault, NCL vice president of public policy, telecommunications and fraud:
“At a time when millions of consumers suffer the effects of data breaches, it is disappointing that Congress would propose a bill that actually reduces consumer protections in this space. NCL supports a strong national data breach notification standard. Unfortunately, the bill proposed by Rep. Blackburn and Welch would preempt stronger existing state laws. For example, the bill covers fewer types of sensitive information, such as e-mail addresses, than many state laws. In addition, the bill creates a disincentive for companies to notify affected consumers by instituting a ‘harm trigger’ that would enable breached companies to determine for themselves whether their customers should be notified of a breach. It is our sincere hope that this bill will be improved through the legislative process, rather that simply serving as a way for businesses to reduce their data security compliance burden. Failing that, it should be opposed as an anti-consumer measure.”
About the National Consumers League
The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.


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The update, which became available for download Monday, adds support for Apple Pay, brings back the camera roll and launches the iCloud photo library.
A WiFi enabled sensor listens for danger while a colorful nightlight keeps the darkness at bay.
Apparently bears in Russia aren't too fond of outdated technology, which is fortunate for a man who met one while salvaging metal from a scrap heap.
Apple's tablet lineup has expanded from six configurations to more than 50 in four years. Has the product lineup become too complex?
It's Black Tuesday! How else to explain such an impossibly good deal on such a spacious TV?
On a call with analysts, Apple CEO explains why the company's smartphone is doing well but its tablet isn't.
CNET breaks out the most important things to know when shopping for a new television.
An Australian man with previous child pornography charges is believed to have been the first convicted in an operation using a CGI child to lure predators.
Apple is counting on the $249 iPad Mini to draw you into its stores. But it's hoping you end up buying a $499 iPad Air instead.
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A brand new technology developed by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, has the potential to reduce crop losses across the developing world.
A brand new technology developed by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, has the potential to reduce crop losses across the developing world and boost the incomes of subsistence farmers.
The technology is designed to combat parasitic ‘nematodes’ – microscopic worms which infect crop plants from the soil, and are responsible for a 12.3% reduction in global agricultural productivity, a loss of around £100 billion annually.
The research, which involves using ‘peptide mimics’ – versions of the parasites’ own brain chemistry – to confuse the real parasites and ultimately, render them impotent, has been awarded a Phase II Grand Challenges Exploration grant of $1million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to be developed in Belfast and proceed to trials in Kenya.
The project will focus on banana and plantain – although in theory it could extend to other crops – which are cultivated across 130 countries, making them the eighth most produced staple in the world. The fruits are often grown by smallholders in the developing world and can account for up to 30 per cent of farmers’ income. Despite their popularity, however, the crop is highly susceptible to a variety of plant parasitic nematodes, which typically reduce yields by 30-50 per cent.
Lead researcher on the project, Dr Johnathan Dalzell from Queen’s Institute for Global Food Security said: “This project builds on our previous research where we developed a novel way of interfering with parasitic nematode host-finding behaviour. Through our lab work we have identified a family of peptide mimics, which specifically and potently interfere with their neurobiology, disorientating the parasites so they can’t find the host plant. They then die quickly through lack of food. Importantly, these peptide mimics appear to have no impact on non-target animals. This is a clean, and robust approach to parasite control.
“Our aim is to develop a variety of approaches which harness this new technology in order to protect crops plants from these parasitic worms. We have chosen to focus on banana and plantain as these crops are highly susceptible to a range of pests and diseases, including nematodes, insects, viral and fungal pathogens.
Developing a broad-spectrum nematode control strategy represents a significant challenge, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, which is a hotbed for pathogens which can break resistance strategies. This is yet another example of how Queen’s is having a global impact and is using its research findings to improve how our world functions.”
As a result of the Gates Foundation grant and other funding, the Queen’s-led project will proceed to glasshouse trials, in association with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture in Nairobi, Kenya. Subsequently, field trials will be conducted and regulatory approval sought.
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Xiaomi launched the Mi A2 in India earlier this month and its sub-brand POCO unveiled the F1 a few weeks ago, and it looks like the Chinese manufacturer is just getting started. Invites sent out to the media suggest Xiaomi is set to launch the Redmi 6 series in India next week. The Redmi 6. Redmi 6A, and the Redmi 6 Pro are all set to make their debut in the country at the event.
The Redmi 6 and 6A are notable for using MediaTek chipsets — Helio P22 and A22 respectively — and the Redmi 6 Pro is powered by the Snapdragon 625, which we've already seen in nearly a dozen Xiaomi phones to date. The Redmi series is the best-selling lineup in India, with the Redmi Note 5 and Redmi Note 5 Pro amassing five million sales in just under four months.
The Redmi series is also crucial to Xiaomi's success in India as it seeks to extend its lead in the market. In fact, four Redmi phones accounted for 26% of the total smartphone shipments in the country last quarter, and it's clear that Xiaomi is intent on continuing that streak.
With the launch just under a week away, we should know all about the pricing and availability of the Redmi 6 series shortly.
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Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., incorporated in the year 1945, is a Large Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 91213.04 Crore) operating in Auto sector.
For the quarter ended 30-09-2020, the company reported a Consolidated sales of Rs 23566.75 Crore, up 44.39 % from last quarter Sales of Rs 16321.34 Crore and down -1.54 % from last year same quarter Sales of Rs 23935.93 Crore. Company reported net profit after tax of Rs -96.43 Crore in latest quarter.
The brokerage retains BUY rating on the stock and value M&M at Rs 870 on SOTP basis, valuing its core automobile business at 7x EV/EBITDA on FY23E numbers and assigning 25% holding company discount to its other investment in listed as well as unlisted entities.
Promoters held 18.9 per cent stake in the company as of June 30, 2020, while FIIs held 33.4 per cent, DIIs 28.5 per cent and public and others 19.2 per cent.
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Back in November of 2009, when GM announced that it would repay its government loans, it didn’t take much investigation to realize that The General was simply shuffling government money from one pocket to the other and that true “payback” was still a ways off. The New York Times asked me to write an op-ed on the subject, and I took the opportunity to point out the reality of the situation and note
G.M.’s global interests are far too diverse for it to serve its taxpayer owners faithfully, and it can’t afford to subjugate its business prerogatives to the political needs of its major shareholder in the White House. So, unless Americans develop a sudden obsession with G.M.’s $40,000 Volt electric car just in time for an I.P.O., taxpayers will be stuck with tens of billions of dollars in losses.
Afterward, while our government contemplates its runaway deficit and getting rid of its 8 percent of Chrysler’s equity, perhaps we’ll get an admission that General Motors still owes the American people. Without one, the relationship between the public and the automaker, and the Obama administration as well, may never be the same.
And now that our government finds itself “contemplating a runaway deficit and getting rid of its 8 percent of Chrysler’s equity,” would you believe that a similar federal money-shuffle is under way? Believe it.
Are there two sadder words in the world of car design than “design intent”? Translated, the term actually means “the inevitable letdown after months (or years) of hype based on a buffed-and-polished prototype.” And for upstart California EV outfit Aptera, a slick, otherworldly prototype was a key to being taken even remotely seriously. Unfortunately, yesterday’s unveiling of the “design intent” Aptera 2e revealed a cheaper, droopier version of the vehicle Aptera had been collecting deposits on the strength of. Don’t believe us? Check out a gallery of prototypes after the jump, and compare for yourself. Besides, the vehicle wasn’t the only ugly part of Aptera’s presentation…
With a mere $9b awarded so far, the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan program is a long way from fulfilling its $25b promise to fund a turnaround in America’s green auto sector. So far, Ford has received $5.9b for a wide range of retooling projects (not a bailout, per Ford PR), Nissan has received $1.6b for Leaf production in Smyrna, TN, while startups Tesla and Fisker have received $465m and $529m respectively. According to the Detroit News, the rest of the 100-odd applicants for the $25b pool are stuck waiting, and with about $42b in total pending requests, not everyone is going to get a rose from the Feds. Predictably, the whining has begun.
Battery firm Ener1/EnerDel, which recently brought the EV firm Th!ink back from bankruptcy, has lost the battery contract for Fisker’s Karma luxury EV. According to Schaeffersresearch, Ener1 “decided it would be better pursuing higher-volume battery supply deals when larger automakers begin rolling out their versions of electric cars.” Says Ener1 CEO Charles Gassenheimer, “we have some capacity constraints on our side. We’re interested in high volume programs in the future.” The public story is that due to Ener1’s Th!nk tie-up, Fisker’s October sales roll-out was too much, too soon. The real story illustrates the complicated relationships emerging between EV firms and battery suppliers.
Former Tesla PR honcho Daryl Siry lays into the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan program (ATVML) at Wired’s Autopia blog, taking the $25b program to task for “stifling innovation.” At its core, his argument is a simple one:
Startup companies that enjoy DOE support, most notably Tesla Motors and Fisker Automotive, have an extraordinary advantage over potential competitors since they have secured access to capital on very cheap terms. The magnitude of this advantage puts the DOE in the role of kingmaker with the power to vault a small startup with no product on the market -– as is the case with Fisker — into a potential global player on the back of government financial support.
As a result, the vibrant and competitive market for ideas chasing venture capital that has been the engine of innovation for decades in the United States is being subordinated to the judgments and political inclinations of a government bureaucracy that has never before wielded such market power.
All of which sounds very TTAC… in fact, our lengthy Bailout Watch series began with a similar analysis of the ATVML program (albeit with a Detroit-focused twist). Unfortunately, Siry’s intentions in this case are questionable… as are his conclusions.
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- The Oracle The Spyder and Ryker platforms are great for folks who want an open air experience but may not want it on 2 wheels. I’ve had a Spyder RS-S since new in 2012 and it’s a fun machine with the manual transmission. When ridden hard, fuel economy goes well below 36mpg, but 2-up riding is great and the frunk is great for running errands.
- The Oracle These pricing pressures have been around for decades and the traditional ICE supply base is about to be upended.
- Druni Thanks. Great.
- NaMiNo Thanks for the recap, Tim! It's always interesting to get a glimpse of what's happening at auto shows. The focus on EVs aligns with the industry's growing shift towards electrification. And optimism about the future, along with more vehicle debuts, is a good sign for the automotive world. I always go to site here for more writting ideas for my blog. Your photos tell the story beautifully, even with auto-show lighting challenges.
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EV charging station launches in Manjimup
One of the first electric vehicle (EV) charging stations on the WA EV Network is now operating in Manjimup.
Synergy worked with the Shire of Manjimup to deliver the fast charger, which is centrally located on Johnsons Crescent.
The charger will provide up to 150 kW allowing drivers to top up their EVs in as little as 20 minutes. A back-up charger is also available at the site.
Synergy CEO, David Fyfe, said the Manjimup EV charger would encourage the uptake of electric vehicles in regional areas and support EV owners to travel throughout WA.
“This charger will be part of the WA EV Network’s South-West corridor – with chargers now operating in Albany and Williams and another charger under construction in Walpole,” Mr Fyfe said.
“At Synergy we’re driving the uptake of electric vehicles, to support WA’s road to net zero emissions by 2050.”
The WA EV Network will be the longest in Australia stretching over 7,000 kilometres from Kununurra in the north, to Esperance in the south and east to Eucla.
It will feature 98 new electric vehicle charging stations across 49 locations along key travel routes averaging less than 200 kilometres apart.
The $21 million WA EV Network as part of the State Government's State Electric Vehicle Action Plan for Western Australia.
For more information visit WA EV Network.


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Model trains. A fish cam. Flying radishes. Outdoor concerts. Rubber chickens. And a giant green lizard.
What do they have in common? All were prime reasons to work for Netscape. There were other reasons too -- such as the opportunity to change the world through the web browser that started the whole internet revolution -- but world changing is so much more fun with toys and guitars.
At least, that's the message delivered by the wonderfully eclectic recruitment video that Netscape released in the mid-'90s (see above). In the video, company co-founder Marc Andreessen, president and CEO Jim Barksdale, and other Netscapers hope to recruit recent college graduates to their swashbuckling startup -- the company that took the Mosaic web browser Andreessen helped build at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and so quickly brought it to the rest of the world. They talk up the company's effort to remake global communication, but they also try oh-so-hard to show that Netscape's internal culture is nothing like what you'd find in the big corporations of the day.
"This is like you're almost back in school -- but you're getting paid," says one employee, before we learn that the company is so radical that it has no dress code. As Barksdale puts it: "Netscape's dress code is: You have to dress." Then we get a look at the model train and the rubber chicken and the giant green lizard. His name is Mozilla. Netscape, Andreessen explains, set out to build a Mosaic killer. Get it? Mo-zilla. "Wild names. Trains. And decorative zeal," the video says. "It's all at Netscape."
Twenty years on, it's a rather amusing pitch. But it also shows that Netscape did more than just lay the technological foundation for companies like Google and Facebook and GitHub. It's also laid the cultural foundation.
Launched in 1994, Netscape almost instantly took the world by storm. The company went public about a year later, and as WIRED's Kevin Kelly once put it, the IPO was explosive: "The brilliant flash revealed what had been invisible only a moment before: the World Wide Web." Before Netscape, it was mostly computer science geeks that used the internet. After Netscape, even your parents got online.
But then Microsoft realized what was happening. The Redmond software giant -- the world's most dominant tech company -- built its own browser, Internet Explorer, and soon came the browser wars. Netscape and Microsoft would battle through the late '90s, but -- sadly and inevitably -- the startup would lose out. It's hard to compete with a browser maker that also controls the computer operating system where browsers run.
When this recruitment video was shot, Netscape was already sliding into oblivion. But you wouldn't know it from the way Andreessen and Barksdale talk the company up. At one point, Andreessen speaks of taking down "a little startup company up there called Microsoft." And Barksdale has an absolute field day. He calls Netscape "the greatest collection of bright people, I think, on the planet," and then he launches into his three rules of Netscape business. They're even better than the rules of Fight Club.


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Facebook buys a company developing a wrist-strap which can control your smartphone by reading your MIND in deal ‘worth up to $1billion’
- Facebook bought the New York-based company CTRL-labs ‘for $500m-$1bn’
- It is currently working on technology which can interpret nerve signals
- This could be the future of communicating with technology, Facebook said
- CTRL-labs will be absorbed into the Facebook Reality Labs team
Facebook has bought a company which is inventing a way for people to control their smartphone with their mind.
The social media giant took over CTRL-labs in a deal reportedly worth up to $1billion (£803m) on Monday.
CTRL-labs is known to be developing on a watch-style device which intercepts signals which are sent from the brain to the fingers, in order to control a phone.
The company will be absorbed into Facebook’s Reality Labs team, the company’s vice-president of augmented and virtual reality, Andrew Bosworth said.
CTRL-labs is working on technology which can interpret nerve signals from inside the arm and use them to control a computer chip like that inside a smartphone or tablet (pictured)
Mr Bosworth announced the business move in a Facebook post from his personal account.
He said the mind-reading developments could ‘change the way we connect’ and ’empower you with control over your digital life’.
The device will be engineered to pick up and interpret the electrical signals the brain sends through the nerves, and translate these to actions in a computer chip.
This will allow people to control devices like a smartphone or tablet without physically using their hands to do it, the developers said.
Although Facebook did not reveal the cost of its purchasing the company, a source told CNBC it paid between $500million and $1billion (£400m – £803m) – a Facebook spokesperson said it was less than a billion.
Mr Bosworth wrote in his Facebook post which announced the deal: ‘We know there are more natural, intuitive ways to interact with devices and technology. And we want to build them. It’s why we’ve agreed to acquire CTRL-labs.
‘They will be joining our Facebook Reality Labs team where we hope to build this kind of technology, at scale, and get it into consumer products faster.
‘The vision for this work is a wristband that lets people control their devices as a natural extension of movement.
Facebook’s vice-president of augmented and virtual reality, Andrew Bosworth, announced the company’s acquisition in a Facebook post (pictured)
‘Here’s how it’ll work: You have neurons in your spinal cord that send electrical signals to your hand muscles telling them to move in specific ways such as to click a mouse or press a button.
‘The wristband will decode those signals and translate them into a digital signal your device can understand, empowering you with control over your digital life.
‘It captures your intention so you can share a photo with a friend using an imperceptible movement or just by, well, intending to.
‘Technology like this has the potential to open up new creative possibilities and reimagine 19th century inventions in a 21st century world. This is how our interactions in VR and AR can one day look. It can change the way we connect.’
HOW THE WRIST STRAP WORKS
The technology works by focusing on the sets of signals that control movement as they travel through the spinal column.
Rather than a keyboard, you could type on a tabletop.
But the text on the screen is generated not by any physical interaction, but instead by the signals the brain sends to the fingers.
The armband intercepts this signals and interprets them, before relaying the output to the computer.
And the CTRL-Labs team has found that the system can pick up even more subtle signals, like the twitching of your fingers.
It could even allow you to type with barely imperceptible movements of your hands in your pockets.
The company hopes to shrink the size of their prototype device to a similar size to a smart watch.
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PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Salucro Healthcare Solutions, a leading healthcare payment technology company, today announced the addition of CareCredit to its patient payment and billing platform, combining CareCredit’s flexible patient financing products with Salucro’s revenue cycle focused patient financial engagement solutions.
In the 2019 Patient Payment Technology Report, Salucro found that if the flexibility was offered, 10% of surveyed patients would prefer to utilize a healthcare-specific third-party financing option, and 22% would prefer to leverage a flexible recurring payment plan when paying for their healthcare services. With the launch of this partnership, health systems and healthcare providers using Salucro’s platform, along with their patients, will have the opportunity to pay with an expanding set of payment options and financing products, including CareCredit, helping to increase patient collections overall while accelerating their reimbursement.
“Payment flexibility and options are key for today’s patients. This partnership offers patients and millions of CareCredit cardholders a payment option when receiving care from a provider, hospital, or health system that uses the Salucro platform,” said Shannon Burke, General Manager, Health Systems, CareCredit, a Synchrony Solution. “With this partnership we are delivering integration with all major patient accounting systems, resulting in a more convenient transaction option for patients and a risk-free solution that allows providers to be paid within two business days.”
By adding CareCredit as an available payment option for providers to accept with the Salucro payment platform, including both the Salucro patient portal and Salucro’s provider-facing payment applications, providers can now offer even more flexibility to their patients who are managing higher out-of-pocket expenses for their healthcare services and ultimately helping to improve the patient experience.
“Historically, healthcare providers offering third-party financing have had limited integration options with their existing payment and billing solutions. Together with CareCredit, we are streamlining that process for patients and providers with a modernized payment experience that is helping patients afford the care they need, when they need it,” said Clayton Bain, CEO of Salucro. “We are excited to partner with CareCredit to expand our reach in delivering a positive financial experience for patients, while delivering more streamlined payment processes to providers who are looking to non-recourse patient financing solutions.”
CareCredit, a Synchrony solution, is a leading provider of promotional financing to consumers for health, veterinary and personal care procedures, services and products. For more than 30 years, CareCredit has helped millions of people by offering special financing options with convenient monthly payments. CareCredit is accepted at more than 240,000 locations for a wide variety of health and wellness procedures, treatments, products and services.
Salucro is a healthcare technology company exclusively focused on patient payments. From online bill pay solutions to provider-facing payment integrations, the Salucro platform brings cohesive payment experiences to healthcare providers, patients, and third-party collection agencies. As a PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider, Salucro belongs to an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned HITRUST CSF Certified status, proving Salucro’s continued commitment to managing risk and improving payment security and compliance. To learn more visit salucro.com.


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Sometimes it’s the leases and the actual assets that are the headache when it comes to moving with the times. Still, some property owners are managing to play offense.
The Culver City company is backed by big names in entertainment and storytelling.
The developer has turned its focus to the San Jose property as it seeks to create a new center for the market.
The Dallas-based retailer is set to close one of its key East Coast stores.
With a new installation set for the Westfield World Trade Center, Marilyn Minter is creating all new work for a May show at Regen Projects.
The temporary store is aimed at increasing awareness of Australian designers within the U.S.
The $24.7 billion deal will build a global giant betting on bricks-and-mortar.
The deal will create the world’s leading developer and operator of flagship shopping destinations, the companies said.
The magazine will open its first brick-and-mortar store, featuring all California designers, at the mall from Nov. 27 until Jan. 2.
The interactive concept previously popped up in New York, Washington D.C. and Nashville.
The mall operator saw the real power of the pop-up with last year’s Kylie Cosmetics store in Topanga and looks to bring the same idea to Century City starting with Hèrmes.
The French contemporary brand will open a New York flagship in SoHo and a location at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles.