An alliance has been forged between Treffpack of Hamburg, Germany and TricorBraun , a U.S.

The best place to start is with the pretreatment system, a critical process in achieving higher quality and more greener finishes. The Greener Cleaner Alkaline cleaners, as we all know, are usually the first step in the pretreatment process.

Trying to become a leader in the vast North American market for product labels can be a sticky business at times, but that’s just how the Toronto-based Metro Label Group Inc.

Getting your hands dirty naturally goes with the territory for anyone in the business of harvesting and packaging fertilizers, plant growing mixes and other such horticultural products. But its a fair trade-off for companies like the Seba Beach, Alta.-based Sun Gro Horticulture Canada Ltd. , which has been really cleaning up in the North American markets over the last several years—impressively growing into the continent’ largest producer of horticultural-grade peat moss, along with blossoming into the biggest distributor of peat- and bark-based growing mixes and a leading supplier of water-soluble and controlled-release fertilizers for the consumer and commercial markets.

TORONTO: The Japanese earthquake and tsunami continue to impact the automobile industry and the global economy, but demand for heavy trucks is driving up production, according to the latest Global Auto Report by Scotia Economics. The report shows global vehicle sales softening in May, with purchases roughly unchanged from a year ago – a significant slowdown from a 6% increase during the previous four months

Trying to become a leader in the vast North American market for product labels can be a sticky business at times, but that’s just how the Toronto-based Metro Label Group Inc. likes it

CHICAGO: Three North American pipeline companies including Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. are buying a natural gas processing plant and pipeline in the US Midwest from EOG Resources Inc. for US$185 million

CALGARY —Progress Energy Resources Corp. has struck a binding deal worth nearly $1.1 billion to form a strategic partnership with the Malaysian national oil company to develop the Canadian company’s BC natural gas assets.

Last year, it seemed the Canadian auto industry had successfully navigated out of the doldrums caused by the economic recession, bankruptcies and government bailouts. Output rose spectacularly at all the firms that assemble vehicles on Canadian soil, with production passing the two million vehicle mark. The future looked radiant and then in March 2011, a massive earthquake in Japan led to a devastating tsunami, chaos at the country’s nuclear plants and a manufacturing shutdown

Intelligrated , a leading North American-owned automated material handling solutions provider has opened an Alvey Robotics lab at its St. Louis, Mo. engineering and manufacturing facility