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HANDLING COMPANY [21 records]

Record 1 2025-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Corporate Management (General)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
DEF

Person responsible for the handling of an institution's liquidity and for negotiating the availability of funds, generally reporting to the financial director of the company.

OBS

treasurer: term and definition reproduced from the CAPITAL Business Dictionary with the permission of LID Editorial Empresarial.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Gestion de l'entreprise (Généralités)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
DEF

Dans une entreprise ou un organisme, cadre dirigeant ou élu responsable de la gestion de la trésorerie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Gestión de la empresa (Generalidades)
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
DEF

Responsable del manejo de la liquidez de una institución y de la negociación para la disponibilidad de fondos propios y ajenos. Suele depender del director financiero de la empresa.

OBS

tesorero: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 2 2023-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Baggage Handling
  • Air Terminals
Key term(s)
  • baggage handling company

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des bagages
  • Aérogares
OBS

bagagiste : terme utilisé pour désigner une entreprise qui s'occupe du traitement des bagages dans un aéroport. À ne pas confondre avec le titre d'emploi qui désigne la personne responsable de la manutention des bagages.

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
  • Aquaculture
CONT

"A [large] vessel... requires a fish handling system that is capable of processing large volumes of fish [by] pumping, delousing, [transporting] and cooling of fish... "The company develops, designs and manufactures complete fish handling systems for the fishery and aquaculture industry. The company's focus is to increase fish welfare, growth and quality through the gentle handling of live fish, with innovative system integrations and process control.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale
  • Aquaculture

Spanish

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Record 4 2022-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Management Operations (General)
CONT

Executive assistants are similar to administrative assistants or secretaries in that they all support someone else's work—usually an executive—by handling or supervising office duties. The difference is that an executive assistant is specifically a senior office staff member assigned to a top executive. This involves supervising and training other office staff, as well as tackling tasks that could have a dramatic effect on the success of a company.

OBS

Not to be confused with "administrative assistant."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
OBS

adjoint exécutif; adjointe exécutive : Le terme «exécutif» est un anglicisme quand il est employé dans le sens de «direction».

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec «adjoint administratif».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Operaciones de la gestión (Generalidades)
CONT

A diferencia de un asistente administrativo, los asistentes ejecutivos ofrecen asesoramiento y orientación profesional, además de llevar a cabo sus tareas administrativas. También pueden actuar como representantes del ejecutivo para el cual trabajan al actuar en su nombre frente a terceros u otras organizaciones y coordinando las actividades de relaciones públicas cuando sea necesario.

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Record 5 2019-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Management Operations (General)
  • Banking
  • Loans
CONT

[The company] is currently recruiting for an assistant credit manager... Supporting the credit manager, this [person] will be responsible for reducing debt, handling queries, and working with the team to streamline processes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
  • Banque
  • Prêts et emprunts

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Operaciones de la gestión (Generalidades)
  • Operaciones bancarias
  • Préstamos
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Record 6 2012-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Rail Transport
OBS

Is employed by the Company to perform the handling of ramp service, cargo, cabin and commissary functions, the preparation of cabin and commissary equipment records and cargo handling forms such as cargo check sheets, mail transfer bills and lot labels; also to perform Cargo Warehouse functions and associated duties.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Transport par rail
OBS

Employé en service sur les aires de trafic, chargé de la manutention du fret, de diverses tâches touchant aux cabines d'avions et au commissariat, dont l'établissement des inventaires du matériel s'y rapportant, des imprimés utilisés dans le trafic marchandises, tels que feuilles de vérification, notes de transbordement du courrier [...] et étiquettes [...]

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Insurance Companies
OBS

The Canadian Insurance Claims Managers Association(CICMA) was first established in 1952 as an organization to allow claims managers to : promote and enhance the image and general welfare of the general insurance industry in the matters pertaining to the settlement of claims; develop harmonious relations amongst those people engaged in the direction of or the investigation and adjustment of claims; exchange information and discuss matters of common interest; promote and maintain a high standard of ethics in the handling of general insurance claims; further such claims administration as will result in just and proper settlement of meritorious claims; promote arbitration or mediation in the resolution of claims. In order to promote the arbitration process as a cost effective way to resolve inter company disputes, the CICMA is also directly responsible for the administration of the Canadian Inter-Company Arbitration Agreement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Sociétés mutualistes et d'assurance

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
OBS

Company located in Mississauga, Ontario, which produces a variety of high-technology handling systems used primarily aboard naval ships and submarines.

Key term(s)
  • Indal Technology
  • Indal Technologies
  • Indal Technology Incorporated
  • Indal Technologies Incorporated

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
OBS

Entreprise établie à Mississauga (Ontario) qui fabrique une gamme de systèmes de manutention perfectionnés, employés principalement à bord d'unités navales (bâtiments de surface et sous-marins).

Spanish

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Record 9 2010-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tempering of Metals
  • Furnaces and Ovens (Metallurgy)
CONT

Apart from the stress removing furnace, its main machinery and equipment [of a company which manufactures tank heads] consist of 450-500 tons bumping presses, flangers, smaller hydraulic presses, and shearing, drilling and handling equipment.

OBS

stress-relief heat treatment; stress relieving: Heating to a suitable temperature holding long enough to reduce residual stresses and then cooling slowly enough to minimize the development of new residual stresses.

Key term(s)
  • stress relieving oven
  • stress-removing furnace

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recuit (Métal)
  • Fours (Métallurgie)
CONT

recuit : Traitement thermique consistant en un chauffage d'un produit métallurgique à une température suffisante pour assurer son équilibre physico-chimique et structural, suivi d'un refroidissement lent. [...] Les fours de recuit ont des formes très diverses suivant le profil des produits à chauffer : fours continus à passage, pour barres, feuillards, bandes, pièces de petites dimensions; fours à cloche, pour fils, feuillards en bobines; fours statiques à moufle, pour pièces de fonderie et lingots.

Spanish

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Record 10 2010-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

One company involved in "factory of the future" programs is the Vought Aero Products Division(APD) of LTV which, in July 1984, brought into operation a computer-controlled Flexible Machining Cell(FMC) to machine parts needed for the aft and aft-intermediate fuselage sections of the B-1B... The system was to be capable of high machine utilisation with programming flexibility to cope with batch sizes down to one; unmanned operation; automated material handling; automated inspection of finished parts; and computer scheduling of the cell' s activities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
CONT

La Vought Aero Products Division (APD) du groupe LTV est l'une des sociétés participant aux programmes portant sur ces "usines de l'avenir". En juillet 1984, elle a mis en service une "cellule d'usinage souple" (CUS) commandée par ordinateur pour la fabrication des pièces des tronçons arrière et intermédiaire arrière du fuselage du bombardier B-1B (...) Le système devait permettre à la fois une utilisation poussée des machines, une programmation souple autorisant des lots de production éventuellement réduits à l'unité, un fonctionnement sans surveillance, la manutention automatique des matériaux, l'inspection automatique des pièces finies et la commande par ordinateur de l'échelonnement des opérations dans la cellule d'usinage.

Spanish

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Record 11 2008-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transport of Goods
  • Storehouses and Warehouses
CONT

Cross docking is a term used to describe the movement of freight from one truck to a loading dock then reloaded into another truck. This is done so the trucking company does not have to use the same truck and drivers to cover the full length of the transit. On a typical coast to coast shipment, your artwork could be cross docked up to five times! Additional handling means additional risk.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport de marchandises
  • Magasins de stockage
OBS

La palette passe simplement du quai réception au quai expédition sans stockage intermédiaire.

Spanish

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Record 12 2007-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • Packaging
  • Food Industries
OBS

Septimatech Group is a high technology service company supplying tooling and container handling concepts to the global packaging market. Their market consists of food and beverage, personal and home care, pharmaceutical, petrol chemical, contract packagers and packaging original equipment manufacturers, focusing on liquid filling packaging lines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage industriel
  • Emballages
  • Industrie de l'alimentation

Spanish

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Record 13 2004-10-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
  • Satellite Telecommunications
CONT

The BAU(bus adapter unit) Type III interface allows use of ARINC 429 avionics hardware in a MIL-STD-1553 environment. Software in the BAU Type III will be verified to DO-178B Level A for handling flight-critical data. Housed in an ARINC 600, 3 MCU chassis to ease installation, the unit is qualified for robust military environments, says the company. The device is geared for use on GATM compliant aircraft such as the C-27J, and C-130J and X transports.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Télécommunications par satellite

Spanish

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Record 14 2000-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Crop Storage Facilities
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
OBS

By 1920, there were 166 primary elevator companies operating in Western Canada, and by 1933, the grain handling system reached its peak with 5, 746 primary elevators. This period also saw the growth of farmer-owned or co-operative elevators. The Grain Growers Grain Company was formed in 1906.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Entreposage des récoltes
  • Minoterie et céréales
OBS

En 1920, on comptait 166 compagnies de silos de collecte dans l'Ouest canadien et, en 1933, le système de manutention des grains atteignait son apogée avec 5 746 silos de collecte. Cette période a aussi vu l'apparition de silos coopératifs, appartenant à des producteurs. La Grain Growers Grain Company date de 1906.

Spanish

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Record 15 1999-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Aviation
DEF

A company or organization designated by an airline to perform ground handling functions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aviation commerciale
DEF

Entreprise qui exécute certaines fonctions d'escale pour une compagnie aérienne.

OBS

Termes uniformisés par le CUTA opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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Record 16 1996-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport Personnel and Services
Key term(s)
  • ground handling company

French

Domaine(s)
  • Personnel et services (Transport aérien)
OBS

Source(s) : Direction du transport des personnes handicapées.

Spanish

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Record 17 1994-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sheet Metal Working
CONT

Apart from the stress removing furnace, its main machinery and equipment [of a company which manufactures tank heads] consist of 450-500 tons bumping presses, flangers, smaller hydraulic presses, and shearing, drilling and handling equipment.

OBS

"bumping": Forming a dish in metal by means of many repeated blows.

OBS

"dishing (pressroom)" [in French]: emboutissage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail des tôles

Spanish

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Record 18 1992-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Continuous Handling
  • Farm Equipment
CONT

The company will produce agricultural implements, grain handling machinery such as super-charged 8-and 10-inch augers, swing-away augers and hydraulic-lift tailgate augers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manutention continue
  • Matériel agricole

Spanish

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Record 19 1987-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Switchgear (Rail Transport)
  • Rolling and Suspension Components (Railroad)
OBS

A work train is a train bulletined or called for(...) the maintenance, improvement, construction or reclamation of Company property, and includes trains exclusively engaged in handling Company material, trains consisting solely of work equipment or rolling stock, empty equipment, occupied or unoccupied boarding and/or outfit cars directly to and from work sites or to convenient points from which such materials, outfit cars, equipment and/or rolling stock will be picked up or used by other trains engaged in Work Train Service(Convention 4-16, art. 14. 1).

OBS

outfit cars: Term officially approved by Canadian Pacific Ltd.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de voie (Transport par rail)
  • Roulement et suspension (Chemins de fer)
OBS

Train aménagé pour recevoir et loger du personnel travaillant sur la voie, et abriter son outillage, ses approvisionnements, etc. (...) des trains-parcs. On trouve également train-parc dans le LGTF-75, no 10680; Ce terme a été uniformisé au CP. France Chartrand, terminologue, propose wagon de service quand il y a seulement un wagon. Selon Yves Dunn, matériel remorqué, 8969, il s'agit d'un ensemble de wagons comportant un restaurant ou un réfectoire, des wagons servant à transporter les outils et le matériel utiles aux employés. Ces wagons sont envoyés sur le lieu d'un déraillement par exemple.

OBS

train-parc : Terme uniformisé par Canadien Pacifique Ltée et CN-AIR Canada.

Key term(s)
  • wagon de service

Spanish

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Record 20 1986-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Continuous Handling
OBS

Immer, J. R., Materials Handling, New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1953, pp. 461-482

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manutention continue
CONT

[...] gerbeurs mobiles et transporteurs fixes pour la manutention de charges isolées, encamionneuses à courroie pour le chargement continu des sacs.

Spanish

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Record 21 1985-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport
CONT

Customs clearance, at least for freighter operations, appears to be treated quite casually by the authorities. Following are our handling agencies : UTA-Passenger check-in, operations, crew movements weight and balance, maintenance. SERVAIR-This company is partly owned by Air France and the U. S. caterer "Marriott In Flite Service". They provide the meal service and cabin grooming. AEROPORT DE PARIS-Ramp handling, loading, off-loading, baggage handling and marshalling. ALSACIENNE-Portable water service, toilet servicing. AIR CANADA-Cargo services.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien
OBS

Terme uniformisé par le CUTA Opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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