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4 hrs ago | WSLS-TV Roanoke

Mutual of Omaha suing MeadWestvaco over trademark

Mutual of Omaha is suing a Richmond, Va.-based paper and packaging products giant in a dispute over a wildlife calendar.

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Related Topix: Paper, MeadWestvaco, Industrial Machines, Richmond, VA

8 hrs ago | The Age

China discloses buying spree in US firms

China's giant sovereign wealth fund revealed it has accumulated stakes totalling $US9.6 billion in major US companies including Coca-Cola, Apple and Goodyear following a buying spree last year.

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Related Topix: Beverages, CocaCola, Rubber-Plastics, Industrial Machines, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Financial Services, Oil & Gas, Energy, Cnooc

12 hrs ago | International Business Times

Wall Street rises on Greece hopes, Caterpillar

Stocks rose at the open on Tuesday as investors welcomed talk that debt-burdened Greece could get help from the European Union, while broker comments lifted shares of industrial companies, including Dow component Caterpillar Inc .

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Related Topix: Caterpillar, Construction, Insurance, Financial Markets

16 hrs ago | GlobeNewswire

Zoltek Reports First Quarter Results

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 8, 2010 -- Zoltek Companies, Inc. today reported financial results for the first quarter of its 2010 fiscal year.

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Related Topix: Rubber-Plastics, Zoltek Companies, Chemicals, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

20 hrs ago | ABC News

NYSE Euronext Returns to Profit in 4th Quarter

NYSE Euronext, the trans-Atlantic stock exchange operator, said Tuesday it returned to profit in the fourth quarter as cost-cutting helped offset a drop in revenue from falling global share trading volumes.

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Related Topix: Automakers

Mon Feb 08, 2010

Silicon Forest

Merix shareholders approve sale to Viasystems

Plans call for keeping Merix's factory in Forest Grove open. Beaverton-based Merix Corp.

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Related Topix: Merix, Electronics

WQAD

Caterpillar to join backers of power plant project known as FutureGen

Backers of the planned experimental clean-coal power plant called FutureGen say the public-private venture envisioned for eastern Illinois has landed another corporate partner.

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Related Topix: Construction, Insurance, Caterpillar, Illinois, Energy, Exelon

The Hartford Courant

Kaman And Lockheed Announce Unmaned Helicopter

Kaman Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. said they have developed an unmanned helicopter and proven to the U.S. Marine Corps that it works.

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Related Topix: Industrial Machines, Aerospace-Defense, Lockheed Martin, US Military, US Marine Corps, US News

Canadian Television

Toyota stumbles but its 'kaizen' cult endures

The cascading crisis at Toyota Motor Corp. stemming from the massive recall of some of its vehicles is prompting other manufacturers that adopted its production system to ask whether the incident reveals a fundamental flaw in the "Toyota Way." The early consensus emerging from that re-examination is that the auto maker's manufacturing philosophy ...

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Related Topix: Toyota Motor, Automakers, Toyota Prius, Hybrid Vehicles, Toyota, Construction, Insurance, Caterpillar

PR-inside.com

Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Investigates Possible Breach of Fiduciary Duty...

Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Investigates Possible Breach of Fiduciary Duty by the Board of Hardinge Inc.

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Related Topix: Industrial Machines, Hardinge

Customer Interaction Solutions

LORD Corporation Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Active Shock

LORD Corporation -- a leader in vibration and motion control products and solutions for defense, aerospace and commercial markets -- filed suit in 2009 against Active Shock in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina .

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Related Topix: Automakers

Sun Feb 07, 2010

WFAT-FM Portage

CIT, emerging from bankruptcy, hires Thain as CEO

CIT Group Inc has hired former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain as its new chief executive, the commercial lender said late on Sunday, wagering that the well-traveled executive can guide its post-bankruptcy turnaround.

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Related Topix: CIT Group, Financial Services, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch and Co, Investment Services, Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs Group, Automakers

KOLO-TV Reno

Nevada Company Gets $20 Million in NASA Funding

Some $20 million in stimulus funds from NASA could put a northern Nevada at the forefront of the United States' commercial spacecraft industry.

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Related Topix: Nevada, Science / Technology, NASA, Aerospace-Defense, Space

Augusta Chronicle

Fire at Greenfield Industries

Firefighters headed to a fire at Greenfield Industries Inc., 470 Old Evans Road in Martinez, just after 3 p.m. today.

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Related Topix: Industrial Machines, Martinez, GA

Buffalo News

Judge faults ex-Delphi executive

Former Delphi Corp. Chief Executive Officer J. T. Battenberg III was "reckless" in failing to ensure that financial forms he signed were accurate, a federal judge said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Automakers, Delphi, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Financial Services

PressConnects.com

Brazilian company makes offer for Hardinge

Industrias Romi S.A., a global manufacturer of machine tools based in Brazil, has submitted an all-cash offer to buy all outstanding shares of Horseheads machine tooler Hardinge Inc.

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Related Topix: Industrial Machines, Hardinge, Horseheads, NY

MarketWatch

American Axle swings to profit; sales miss targets

American Axle & Manufacturing shares fell 11% on Friday after the car parts maker said it swung to a fourth-quarter profit but posted sales that came up shy of Wall Street targets.

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Related Topix: Automakers, American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings

Sat Feb 06, 2010

Salon.com

Judge: Pratt can't move jobs out of US

A federal U.S. judge ordered jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney to halt its plans to move 1,000 jobs out of Connecticut and to Japan, Singapore and the state of Georgia.

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Related Topix: Aerospace-Defense, Industrial Machines, Security, United Technologies Corporation, East Hartford, CT

Freshnews

Teledyne Technologies to Present at Cowen's Aerospace/Defense Conference on February 10

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated today announced that Jason VanWees, vice president, corporate development and investor relations, will make a presentation at Cowen and Company's 31st Annual Aerospace/Defense Conference on Wednesday, February 10, at 11:55 a.m. at the InterContinental The Barclay New York in New York City.

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Related Topix: Teledyne Technologies, Aerospace-Defense, Flying, Life, Hobbies

Miami Herald

Badger Meter profit falls, misses expectations

RightNow Technologies Inc.'s quarterly profit nearly quadrupled as sales of its customer-management software leaped.

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Related Topix: Industrial Machines, 9, Startups, Shutterfly, Semiconductors, RF Micro Devices, Electronics

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