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February 3, 2012 - Sheraton Toronto Airport Hotel and Conference Centre, of Etobicoke, Ont., was fined $70,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) after a worker was injured.
February 3, 2012 - IED Limited Partnership II announced the acceptance of Epitron Inc. Electrical Wholesale (Timmins, Ont.) as an Independent Electrical Distributors/Seabell Member effective January 1, 2012.
February 3, 2012 - CommScope claims it has exceeded industry standards by successfully enabling a 100GB ethernet (GE) data transmission over off-the-shelf multi-mode fiber optic cabling at a length of 430 metres. In collaboration with Ixia and Reflex Photonics, the demonstration took place at Cisco Live! in London, U.K., using…
February 2, 2012 - I-Gard, a provider, developer and proponent of High Resistance Grounding technology, is currently seeking to hire a:Technical Sales Representative - Calgary, Alta.
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February 2, 2012 - Hammond Power Solutions (HPS), a manufacturer of dry-type transformers and magnetics, has named Michael Frayne as its new director of marketing, where he will be responsible for overseeing all marketing functions across the HPS Americas organization. He will help support the sales and growth of existing…
February 2, 2012 - After close to 40 years of service at Thomas & Betts, Reg Clark (first photo), vice president, Industrial, has retired, effective February 1, 2012.
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February 2, 2012 - Atkore International's Cope Wire Basket gets a new name in North America! After manufacturing wire basket under the Cope brand in North America and under the Acroba brand in the rest of the world, Atkore is now producing wire basket globally under the Acroba brand.
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February 2, 2012 - ABB, a power and automation company, is currently seeking to hire a:Marketing Manager, Medium Voltage Western Canada - full-time
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February 2, 2012 - Ideal Industries Inc. today announced the rebranding of its datacom business unit to Ideal Industries Networks “to reflect a realigned sales channel and product mix focusing on data and security networking technology markets”.
February 1, 2012 - The Call for Papers is now open for the 2012 FTTH (Fiber To The Home) Conference & Expo scheduled for September 23-27 at the Hilton Anatole, Dallas, Texas. The deadline for submission is March 16.
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While at the IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop, we had the opportunity to chat with two delegates who will also…
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Electrical Business recently had the opportunity to check out Acklands-Grainger’s “The Works” annual MRO & Safety Show in Toronto, Ont., and what an event!
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EBMag’s associate editor Alyssa Dalton was there on December 6, 2011, when SMTC Corp. and Enecsys Ltd. officially announced their partnership to produce Enecsys micro inverters for the Canadian market at SMTC’s Markham, Ont., facility, which qualifies for Ontario’s Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program by meeting the domestic content requirement.
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EBMag sister publication, Manufacturing Automation, attended the CanSIA Solar Conference 2011’s opening plenary session entitled “Global Outlook, Local Impacts: PV Industry Leaders Panel”. Here, the heads of several global PV manufacturers offered their views on the current and future status of Canada’s solar photovoltaic industry. This video contains comments from Kerry Adler, president & CEO of SkyPower Ltd. and Milfred Hammerbacher, president of Canadian Solar.
