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RE: General Business Updates and News - plam - 05-09-2016
(05-06-2016, 12:23 PM)Section ThirtyOne Wrote:(05-06-2016, 12:05 PM)panamaniac Wrote: I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out what these chemicals are in clothing that enter into our body. The article was not very informative.
It likely has to due with all of the chemicals used to create synthetic fabrics, such as polyester for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyester
Polyester is fairly inert, says the article. I'd worry more about chemicals used to finish the pieces.
A more useful article about textile recycling: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/textile-recycling-1.3569138
RE: General Business Updates and News - clasher - 05-10-2016
It's the dyes that might be worrisome. I don't know that sweat would really be enough of a solvent to cause dyes to leach out and then get absorbed into the skin... but I ain't no shirt scientist.
RE: General Business Updates and News - rangersfan - 05-18-2016
Nova Wood of Kitchener has been sold.
http://m.therecord.com/news-story/6557315-kitchener-s-nova-wood-sold-to-u-s-industry-leader
RE: General Business Updates and News - rangersfan - 05-25-2016
Ampacet is expanding its Kitchener manufacturing facility with help from the province.
http://m.therecord.com/news-story/6688305-ampacet-canada-doubling-size-of-kitchener-plant
RE: General Business Updates and News - panamaniac - 05-25-2016
(05-25-2016, 06:01 AM)rangersfan Wrote: Ampacet is expanding its Kitchener manufacturing facility with help from the province.
http://m.therecord.com/news-story/6688305-ampacet-canada-doubling-size-of-kitchener-plant
I'm always amazed at the number of manufacturers plugging away in the Region that I've never heard of. Glad to see this one is doing well.
RE: General Business Updates and News - panamaniac - 05-26-2016
Yet another expansion in the local manufacturing sector (and yet another company that I hadn't heard of before). Kromet International will spend $5.3 million dollars and create 50 new jobs between now and 2020.
Re Kromet (from the article): Founded in 1967 as a manufacturer of appliance handles, the company produces finished metal components and assemblies for use in everything from appliances and furniture to the automotive, urban transit and LED lighting sectors.
Its products include such things as handles and trim, step rails, luggage and roof racks, and heat sinks for lighting. Its customers include Steelcase, Whirlpool, GE, Sharp, Jeep and Bombardier
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6690437-kromet-investment-expected-to-create-50-jobs/
The province is pitching in with $800,000 to support this expansion - I can't recall the last time I saw a local expansion story that didn't include a public money component. I guess it is now required.
RE: General Business Updates and News - rangersfan - 05-26-2016
When Aeryon Labs expanded into a second building (not a new build) there wasn't public money.
RE: General Business Updates and News - panamaniac - 05-27-2016
(05-26-2016, 10:58 PM)rangersfan Wrote: When Aeryon Labs expanded into a second building (not a new build) there wasn't public money.
That is a good example.
RE: General Business Updates and News - rangersfan - 05-30-2016
A Virtual arcade has arrived in Waterloo, sounds pretty interesting.
http://m.therecord.com/news-story/6694884-virtual-worlds-await-at-waterloo-gaming-arcade
RE: General Business Updates and News - panamaniac - 05-30-2016
Construction is underway on a new technical centre and corporate headquarters at Mitchell Plastics in Kitchener.
Waterloo Region Record
By Record staff
KITCHENER — Mitchell Plastics is building a new technical centre and corporate headquarters in an expansion that's expected to create 40 jobs over the next three years.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6698624-mitchell-plastics-building-new-technical-centre/
RE: General Business Updates and News - panamaniac - 06-17-2016
Another (subsidiary of a) big name comes to Kitchener:
Expertise in secure software brings Bosch to town
Waterloo Region Record
By Terry Pender
KITCHENER — The German automotive giant Bosch Group has opened an office in Kitchener that will focus on a rapidly growing sector in the Internet of Things — cyber-defence solutions for cars.
ETAS Embedded Systems Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bosch Group, has opened its office in the Breithaupt Block with three engineers, but it expects the staff complement will grow.
"I see the potential in the next five years of going up to 100 people," said Friedhelm Pickard, ETAS president and chair of the management board. ...
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6729416-expertise-in-secure-software-brings-bosch-to-town/
RE: General Business Updates and News - rangersfan - 06-17-2016
Very cool news, I really like the Bosch products I have purchased in the past.
RE: General Business Updates and News - GtwoK - 06-18-2016
I must be living under a rock or something; I saw a large "ad" made of sticky-notes spanning 10 or so windows on the North side of 305 King. The ad was a link; pbl.io/ks3 . I followed it , and it leads to a Kickstarter for the next gen Pebble. It made me question whether Pebble has a Kitchener office, becauseI couldn't see why else the Kickstarter would be advertised here.
Looked it up, and turns out, not only do they have a Kitchener office, but it's their ONLY office, and they're a Kitchener company!? Holy cow! Dunno how that got past me, I had no idea Pebble was started here, no one's ever seemed to have mentioned it before!
RE: General Business Updates and News - mpd618 - 06-18-2016
(06-18-2016, 08:45 PM)GtwoK Wrote: Looked it up, and turns out, not only do they have a Kitchener office, but it's their ONLY office, and they're a Kitchener company!? Holy cow! Dunno how that got past me, I had no idea Pebble was started here, no one's ever seemed to have mentioned it before!
It's not their only office - the main office is in Silicon Valley. My understanding is that the Kitchener office is an engineering office.
RE: General Business Updates and News - taylortbb - 06-19-2016
(06-18-2016, 08:45 PM)GtwoK Wrote: Looked it up, and turns out, not only do they have a Kitchener office, but it's their ONLY office, and they're a Kitchener company!? Holy cow! Dunno how that got past me, I had no idea Pebble was started here, no one's ever seemed to have mentioned it before!
They've got quite the local history. Founded by Eric Migicovsky (UW student) as Allerta, they made the InPulse smartwatch which worked with BlackBerrys. It was hyped at the time but never took off, so it was re-branded to Pebble, redesigned, and taken to the US as a part of Y Combinator. As mpd618 said they've got an engineering office here, but the company never really "came home", with head office remaining in California. In the era they went to Y Combinator coming back to KW after was pretty rare, I think VidYard was the first company to. Apparently the failure of the InPulse left a fair bit of bad blood between them and BlackBerry, which is why Pebble never supported BlackBerry, and may have been in a factor in them not returning to KW.