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Jagjit brings big gains for small firm Sep 19 2006
STUDENT Jagjit Bhangal has helped a Coventry firm develop a new manufacturing process which will bring considerable cost savings.
The impressive achievement has bagged the 20-year-old the top gong in Coventry and Warwickshire's Most Enterprising Student award scheme.
Jagjit received the accolade after winning the University of Warwick Science Park Final of the Shell Step 2006 student placement programme.
Shell Step places undergraduates with small and medium sized companies to look at a particular challenge in developing the business.
Jagjit worked at Lloyds Industries, off Torrington Avenue, Tile Hill, in the summer holidays.
Employing almost 30 people, the company makes "carcasses" used for bedroom and home office furniture.
Production currently uses a two-step process on separate machinery for the cutting and then drilling of the furniture.
The firm wanted to introduce a single system.
Jagjit, a former pupil of Ernesford Grange Community School, helped develop a new manufacturing process, which will cost £250,000 but bring long-term gain.
An aeronautical engineering student at Imperial College, London, he said: "Although a big investment, the new system will bring considerable cost benefits to the company.
"It will reduce labour requirements and free up valuable factory space by the use of a single machine.
"The combined process is much more productive by about 10 to 15 per cent, allowing for increased output which will increase revenues and profits.
"It means that output could increase by 33 per cent, from £1.8million to £2.4million."
David Grindrod, chairman of the judging panel and deputy director of the University of Warwick Science Park, said: "The standard of the students' work never fails to impress me.
"It makes the judging extremely difficult as all of the finalists showed high levels of understanding and innovation which have benefited the companies they work for."
Jagjit won £500 and represents Coventry and Warwickshire in the West Midlands Shell Step 2006 Regional Final in Birmingham.
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Action 9: Furniture Purchase With Gift Certificate Becomes Weighty Problem
POSTED: 3:47 pm EDT September 20, 2006
UPDATED: 6:06 pm EDT September 20, 2006
Blythe Bennett likes her new house. She moved in last January.
The home is fully decorated and furnished. The bedroom is especially impressive.
"I go this Cindy Crawford armoire and the night stand over here to match," she said.
She also has a marble-top chest, all from Rooms To Go.
Bennett claims their Pineville store told her she could order the furniture, then apply a $2,000 gift certificate from her builder to pay for it all.
"I was told by Rooms To Go they would honor it toward that purchase," she said.
But then Bennett started getting deferred payment statements showing a balance of nearly $2,000.
"After I got the second one after that, like March, April, May, then I started calling to find out what the problem was," she said.
Bennett says each time she called, she was told something different. First that they'd take care of it, then representatives said she'd been misinformed and that they couldn't apply the gift certificate to an existing account.
"I basically got the runaround," she said.
And of course it upset Bennett knowing she would be stuck with a gift certificate she had no use for and would now have to pay for the furniture.
"Well it was very distressing to me because . . . shortly thereafter I lost my job and finances was a big issue for me," she said.
Action 9 got in touch with Rooms To Go's corporate office in Atlanta. Representatives there made special arrangements to honor Bennett's gift certificate.
The company removed her from their finance plan and then applied the $2,000 gift certificate. Representatives said this is highly unorthodox, but did it as a gesture of customer goodwill.
Bennett said she's happy she got Action 9 involved.
"I'm so grateful and appreciative of what you have done; you've just eased my mind immensely, lifted a heavy burden off of me," she said.
It all worked out in the end, but there should have been better communication between the store and the customer at the time of purchase. Bennett should have demanded something in writing from the store.
Also, when it comes to gift certificates, always find out how they're to be used and if there's an expiration date.
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Beijing drops out of top 10 "best city" list: report
Beijing is the nation's capital, but according to a recent survey, it does not even rank in China's top 10 cities in terms of suitability for living.
The city came 15th in the list, as compared to third in 2004, due to its bad traffic, high housing prices and heavy pollution.
Coastal city Dalian in Northeast China was selected as China's most suitable city for living, followed by Xiamen, also a coastal city, in East China's Fujian Province.
Following were Mianyang in Southwest China's Sichuan Province and the provincial capital Chengdu; Wuhan, provincial capital of Hubei; Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang; Shanghai; Nanjing, provincial capital of Jiangsu Province; Qingdao in Shandong Province; and Chongqing Municipality.
Beijing was not the only other well-known city to miss the top 10: Tianjin, Shenzhen, Xi'an and Guangzhou also lost out.
The list was compiled last month by Beijing-based polling agency Horizon Group after interviewing 3,434 urban residents aged between 18-65, and 1,604 investors.
The urban habitable index, which takes traffic, environment, social welfare and security into account, averaged 65.7 out of 100 points. "The findings indicated that there is much room for improvement in Chinese cities," the polling agency said.
The agency listed major problems faced by Chinese cities such as shortage of housing supplies, tough job markets, lack of or poor waste water and garbage treatment, and pollution.
Social groups differ over the degree of satisfaction with cities.
"Investors and high-income groups showed a high degree of satisfaction, but low-income groups were generally dissatisfied because of soaring housing prices and grim employment situation," said the polling agency.
The Chinese mainland has about 660 cities and 41 per cent of its population are urbanites. By 2020, the rate is expected to surpass 60 per cent.
(Source: China Daily)
Sino-German environmental forum to open in Qingdao
China and Germany will jointly hold a forum on environment in east China's port city of Qingdao from Jan. 11 to 13.
The forum will focus on environmental and economic cooperation between the two countries, especially in the sector of renewable energy, recycling-based economy and green purchase, according to China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA).
Senior officials from SEPA and its German counterpart as well as experts and entrepreneurs from the two countries will be present at the meeting.
This will be the second time for the two countries to jointly hold an environmental forum following the first successful one in Beijing in 2000.
3 mines shut down in Hebei after fatal accident
Three gypsum mines were recently shut down by local government after a fatal accident claimed 33 lives in north China's Hebei Province in November last year.
The Kangli gypsum mine and two other neighboring mines were closed jointly by the Hebei provincial government and concerned departments of Xingtai City and Xingtai County, where the mines were located.
An investigation team organized by the State Council found that the three gypsum mines did not suspend production in the period during which the mines were required to improve production conditions and root out hidden risks. They continued production in violation of regulations, resulting in the accident, according to the team.
At 7:40 p.m. on Nov. 6, the Kangli gypsum mine collapsed in Shangwang village of Xingtai county, damaging two other gypsum mines nearby, and toppling a two-story building and leaving cracks on the ground. The accident claimed 33 lives, injured 38 others and left four missing.
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