2016 is looking to be the year of soybeans. Chris Hurt, Purdue University agricultural economist, is predicting corn acreage to be 1.5% to 2% lower and soybean acreage to be around 2% higher for the Midwest’s 2016 growing season. With ...
At an annual awards ceremony in London attended by more than 350 guests from the UK electronic systems industry, UK-based Plessey has been named Company of the Year by the NMI (National Microelectronics Institute), the industry trade body ...
Researchers in the USA have reduced current leakage for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon to the level achieved for devices produced on much more expensive silicon carbide [Bo Song et ...
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Power management company Eaton today outlined how recently acquired Ephesus Lighting, a Syracuse, N.Y.-based manufacturer of connected light-emitting diode (LED) lighting solutions for sporting venues and high lumen outdoor and industrial ...
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Teledyne Microwave Solutions Inc of Mountain View, CA, USA (TMS, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Inc) has launched a line of gallium nitride (GaN)-based wideband amplifiers that is claimed to further lower the form factor threshold ...
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At the 2015 Elektra Awards ceremony at The Lancaster Hotel in London on 24 November, Cambridge Nanotherm Ltd of Haverhill, Suffolk UK, a producer of thermal management technology, has won the LED Lighting Product of the Year award (beating ...
Due to oversupply and price competition between the suppliers of lighting LEDs, the total Chinese market for packaged LEDs will grow at a single-digit annual rate, forecasts market research firm IHS. The total Chinese market for packaged ...
Tags: LEDs, Lighting market
Sonoco renames all facilities of the former Weidenhammer Packaging Group (WPG). As of January 1st 2016, former Weidenhammer plants and branches will operate under the name Sonoco Consumer Products Europe. This step completes the ...
Tags: Sonoco, composite cans, plastics packaging
Tetra Pak and DeLaval, sister companies in the Tetra Laval Group, today signed a five year agreement with the Dairy Association of China to provide training to Chinese dairy farm managers. The signing ceremony was attended by both the ...
Tags: cows, Dairy Farm, Tetra Pak, Delaval
M&H Plastics, part of the RPC Group of companies has recently completed a new family of packages for Champneys. Champneys opened its doors in 1925 as the UK's original health spa. Since then, every single Champneys product is tried and ...
Tags: M&H Plastics, primary packaging, jars, bottles
British can maker Rexam has inaugurated its new£115m wall-to-wall manufacturing plant in Widnau, Switzerland. Located alongside the Rauch Trading can filling plant, the new facility will be capable of producing 2.2 billion Slim ...
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Terlato Wine Group and South Africa-based drinks company Distell Group Limited will merge two divisions of the respective companies - Terlato’s Artisan Spirits division with Distell’s US spirits division, to form a new joint ...
PicoBrew has launched new models of their award-winning Pico craft beer brewing machine on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. The world's most compact and easy to use craft-beer-brewing machine has already received outstanding support on ...
American actor George Clooney along with drink industry executives Rande Gerber and Michael Meldman established a drinks importing company called Casamigos Spirits Company in order to oversee all the functions of Casamigos Tequila brand. ...
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Royal DSM is expanding Akulon XS production capacity at its facility in Emmen, the Netherlands in a bid to cater to the increasing demand. Akulon XS is a new polyamide that has been developed specifically for blown films used in flexible ...