TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 03/02/12 — Archon Systems Inc., creators of inFlow Inventory, held a "just for fun" contest to see if the community could design a Windows 8 logo superior to the official one as seen on the recently released Windows 8 beta.The official Windows 8 logo was met with controversy with heavy opinions weighing in on both sides of the spectrum."Our company culture at Archon Systems Inc. is very much design centric. That being said, when Microsoft ann
SAN MATEO, CA — (Marketwire) — 02/29/12 — Entrepreneur Magazine named Vanguard Cleaning Systems #39 on its 33rd annual Franchise 500 ranking, putting Vanguard in the Top 50 for the fourth consecutive year. The magazine also noted Vanguard in the Top 10 in several key categories — Fastest-Growing (#4), Low-Cost (#6) and Top Homebased (#8)."We are pleased with the continued brand momentum Vanguard is seeing among our franchisees, business customers and employees," said Mark Heisten
HORSHAM, PA — (Marketwire) — 02/29/12 — is about to make users of its popular MP600 melt indexer very happy — with availability of its new, significantly upgraded MP1200 melt indexer. Its next generation extrusion plastometer offers a host of significant features that customers will appreciate. The MP1200 will soon be on display at Booth 51017 at the , April 2-5, 2012, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL.In terms of performance, the MP1200 uses three-zone temperature control, to g
HOUSTON, TX — (Marketwire) — 02/29/12 — Intergraph has scheduled a Discovery Tour event on March 6, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA that will feature demonstrations of Intergraph CADWorx Plant Professional including methods that can increase performance by up to 30% on most projects. Demonstrations will include the modeling of equipment, steel, and piping and show how enhanced piping features and functions work together to reduce modeling times. Hosting the event locally will be ECE Desi
DALLAS, TX — (Marketwire) — 02/27/12 — Cotton Creek Capital Management, LLC is pleased to announce the closing of its investment in Fort Worth, Texas-based, Terrace Energy, LLC. Terrace Energy is an oil and gas, exploration and production company concentrating on the acquisition of assets in North America. Currently the company is engaged in the acquisition and early development of properties in the East Texas Basin. Terrace-s management team, many coming from large independents or publicly
CONSHOHOCKEN, PA — (Marketwire) — 02/27/12 — AlliedBarton Security Services, , the industry-s premier provider of highly trained security personnel, has been accepted as an associate member of the American Chemistry Council. The ACC board of directors voted on and approved membership for AlliedBarton and fourteen chemical manufacturers. AlliedBarton is the first and only security officer services company to be a member of the ACC."Our ACC membership speaks to our expertise in this indu
SUGAR LAND, TX — (Marketwire) — 02/27/12 — Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) will host special guest (Montreal, Quebec), an (NYSE:IR) company, as part of this week-s "Industry Today" webcast. With experience dating back more than a century, HIBON offers the market a world-class range of blowers that are used to provide air/gas at a variety of volumes and pressures for many industrial applications. HIBON is ISO 9001-certified for the design, manufacture and maintenanc
HOUSTON, TX — (Marketwire) — 02/24/12 — Intergraph has scheduled a Discovery Tour event on February 28, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, that will feature demonstrations of Intergraph CADWorx Plant Professional including methods that can increase performance by up to 30% on most projects. Demonstrations will include the modeling of equipment, steel, and piping and show how enhanced piping features and functions work together to reduce modeling times. There will also be discussions on ho
LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY — (Marketwire) — 02/24/12 — BASFBASF significantly surpassed the record levels of 2010 in sales and earnings, and thus again earned a high premium on its cost of capital in 2011. Compared with 2010, sales increased by 15% to EUR 73.5 billion. All regions contributed to this increase. Income from operations (EBIT) before special items improved by 4% to EUR 8.4 billion and EBIT increased almost 11% to EUR 8.6 billion.At the Annual Press Conference, Dr. Kurt Bock, Chairma
RENO, NV — (Marketwire) — 02/23/12 — Itronics Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ITRO) is pleased to announce that Dr. John Whitney, Founder and President, was recently interviewed by TheStockRadio.com. Dr. Whitney discusses the sale of fertilizer for a wide variety of crops grown in California. Itronics strips silver and other heavy metals out of toxic liquid photowaste and Dr. Whitney says despite the "digital revolution" there is a supply of photowaste available greatly in excess of what Itroni
