New production line positions JM to serve customers, boost lead in variety of global filtration product markets

BERLIN. - Thursday, June 18th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) Johns Manville (JM), a leading manufacturer of premium-quality building, specialty and filtration products and a Berkshire Hathaway company, today celebrated the inauguration of a state-of-the-art polyester spunbond production line at its Berlin, Germany, facility.

The new production line is part of a strategic plan to support the growing demand for high-end polyester filtration media. The new production line utilizes newly developed proprietary spinning technology and will increase the Berlin plant’s spunbond lightweight capacity by more than 40 percent. Johns Manville invested more than 32 million Euro to build the line.

An inauguration ceremony at the plant included customers, local elected officials, project partners and JM employees.

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Dubai Kartdrome based CG Racing follow up on their 2014 runners-up victory with another top podium placement

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, June 16th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

Reflecting on Dubai and the Dubai Kartdrome rise to the top of the global endurance karting scene, Choueiri Group’s CG Racing teams once again placed in a spectacular winning performance at the 2015 SWS Endurance Grand Finals in France, held over June 4-6, at the prestigious Racing Kart de Cormeilles track venue near Paris, where CG Racing Pro won the coveted 3rd place standing.

The top-notch Dubai Kartdrome based racers entered this year’s 12 hour’s finale with 2 teams (CG Racing Pro and CG Racing 1), respectively targeting both #1 and #2 place wins. This year marked CG Racing’s 3rd qualification into the SWS Grand Finals and their second consecutive year receiving top podium honors. It follows their marginal near miss (by 3.146 seconds) of the podium’s t ... Read more »

Document provides a common language to enable faster Industrial IoT development and a blueprint for standards development

BERLIN - Wednesday, June 17th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC) announces the immediate release of the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture. This document provides a common language for the elements of Industrial Internet systems and the relationships between them. This common language helps developers decide which elements they need for their systems, enabling faster delivery of implementations. The announcement was made today at the Industrial Internet Berlin Forum.

“For the Internet of Things to reach the predicted install base of 50 billion things by 2020, developers need to be able to connect and scale systems quickly,” said Dr. Shi-Wan Lin, co-chair of the Industrial Internet Consortium Technology Working Group and principal engineer with the Strategy and Technology ... Read more »

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. - Wednesday, June 17th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- RF IDeas, Inc., the leading innovator and manufacturer of employee badge readers for in-building applications such as computer access, identification, time and attendance, today announced the latest release of its innovative new pcProx® Nano Readers.

Joining the popular vertical version, RF IDeas announces the horizontal model of the pcProx Nano. With users now having the choice between vertical and horizontal models, this small but powerful badge reader paves the way for flexibility in the numerous applications for authentication, tracking, audits, security and more. For mobile workers on the go who must comply with authentication and access policies, the pcProx Nano enables error-free identification with a simple wave of the badge. The tedious task of typing usernames and passwords to access multiple applications is eliminated while still complying with security policies.

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