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Swedwood, the industrial group within IKEA, the leading home furnishings retailer, announced plans to build a manufacturing facility in Danville, Virginia. The factory will be the Swedish companys first furniture production location in the United States, and will produce a variety of wood-based IKEA products such as EXPEDIT bookshelves, LACK coffee and side tables, MAGIKER modular entertainment systems and PAX wardrobe frames. Pending permits and construction, the facility will open in early 2008, and will create up to 740 jobs.
The 810,000 square-foot future Swedwood factory will be built on 209 acres in Cane Creek Centre, in the City of Danville, VA in Pittsylvania County, VA approximately 50 miles north of Greensboro, NC. The close proximity to many IKEA stores and distribution centers, coupled with good regional infrastructure and available land, make Danville ideal for this North American production facility, said Bengt Danielsson, North American president of Swedwood.
It is a perfect autumn day, late afternoon, and I am in the garage, cleaning. Although maybe ``piling" is a better word for what I am doing. Rearranging. Moving things. It's a two-car garage, which means that in theory it can hold two cars. In fact, it never has. Clearing a path through the garage to the back door is my only goal. A kitchen table lives in my garage, along with an old trash masher, a working refrigerator, and a brand new -- don't ask -- modular shower, not hooked up, of course, just sitting there, a constant reminder of a remodeling mistake. Plus there's the usual garage stuff -- old bikes, flat tires, broken rakes, rusty tools, fertilizer, potting soil, bird food, baby carriages, a lawn mower, a wheelbarrow, a snow blower, golf clubs, a spreader that doesn't work, cans that need recycling, defogger, Raid, jumper cables, sand.
Prague, Oct 26 (CTK) - Production of L-159 fighter jets at Aero Vodochody will probably be wound up, Hospodarske noviny (HN) reports citing Marek Dospiva, co-owner of Penta investment group which includes Oakfield, Aero's new owner. The government decided to sell Aero to Oakfield on Wednesday for CZK 2.91 billion. "If Aero's management convince us that there is demand for the L-159 aircraft, its production will go on. However, we have serious doubts that the contracts being negotiated are realistic," HN quotes Dospiva as saying. Production of components for Sikorsky helicopters at Aero should continue. "We shall do our best to maintain the Sikorsky project and to raise production," said Dospiva. The company has also offered cooperation to other world producers.
October 27, 2006 - Built on XiIIIPlus(TM) platform, R110Xi high frequency (HF) radio frequency identification (RFID) tabletop printer/encoder offers 4 in. print widths, 203 and 300 dpi print resolution, and XML encoding. It encodes passive inlays using multi-protocols such as ISO15693 and ISO18000-3 mode 1, and provides MIFARE ultralight support. Industrial, multi-protocol RFID solution is suitable for high-volume and on-demand smart label printing and RFID tag encoding. .
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