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This Week in Logistics News (October 3-7, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Denmark’s DSV eyes more big acquisitions in fragmented freight market (Reuters). “We have doubled our capacity in the last twelve months and that allows us to ship to a majority of the U.S. I’ll share photos and more from our ride in a future post. population in one day,” Traweek said.

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Jeroen van Weesep: ‘Make more room for intuition and trust’

Supply Chain Movement

With factories in Denmark, Mexico, Hungary and the Czech Republic, it produces a mind-blowing 40 billion Lego bricks a year. Eighty years after its foundation, The Lego Group is still a privately held family company headquartered in Billund, Denmark. What is your role?

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Supply Chain Leadership Series IV: Joydeep Ganguly – Passionate About Sustainable Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

In his role as Vice President and Global Head of Biogen’s Technical Operations function, he oversaw the company’s multi-scale biologics and small molecule manufacturing, as well as led operations for the company’s presence in North Carolina, Denmark and Switzerland. frameworks are one such strategy.

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RELEX Solutions Fuels Growth with Additional Funding from Summit Partners

RELEX Solutions

RELEX founders continue to serve in a senior leadership capacity and remain majority owners of the company. In the last two years, RELEX has nearly tripled its revenues, entering the North American market and adding over 90 new customers worldwide including Rossmann, WHSmith, Morrisons, Coop Denmark and AO.com.

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SCRC Partner Profile: A Textbook Transformation at Biogen-Idec

Supply Chain View from the Field

In addition to its portfolio of drug candidates, the company has capabilities, including capacity for protein manufacturing, that are world-class in quality and scale. It was formed from the November 2003 merger of Biogen, Inc. and IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corp.

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Logistics Technology and Startup Roundup: Q1 2016

Freightos

Maersk experimented with using a drone to deliver goods to a container ship in Denmark , in an effort to save costs on barge deliveries. A British aviation service company ordered 12 Lockheed-Martin blimps , each capable of carrying 47,000 pounds (20% of a 747’s cargo capacity). The blimps could be ideal for remote deliveries.

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Battery Assault: The Innovation of Batteries “Powering” Automotive Manufacturing & Manufacturing Industries

GlobalTranz

This improvement tripled battery storage capacity (almost equaling lithium ion) A few marketplace knee jerk reactions occurred. Modular Zinc Air in Sea Land; Picture of Big Bend Power Station by wkniught94 talk container picture by Marc Cromme, Denmark. Chevron bought the patent and blocked NiMH batteries used in electric vehicles.