Axalta Huajia Coatings, a joint-venture of leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, Axalta Coating Systems and Huangshan Yongjia Group Co. Ltd., has developed a new warranty program for its Alesta architectural powder coatings ...
Covestro, a global polymer materials supplier, has a new identity. From September 1, 2015, Bayer MaterialScience is operating under the Covestro name. The company is now legally and economically independent, but will remain a 100 percent ...
Tags: Adhesive, polymer materials
How to provide the same strength yet be ultra-low weight – the new inner tube for mountain bikes from Schwalbe takes on this challenge. The company, the market leader in Europe for bicycle tires and inner tubes, has worked with BASF ...
Tags: BASF, polyurethane
AkzoNobel plans to invest more than €1.3 million to build a pilot plant for coating resins at its Performance Coatings site located in Felling, UK. The state-of-the-art facility - which will create three new jobs and safeguard a ...
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Originally a battery maker, Indian manufacturer Eveready is transiting into the LED lighting market recently with the aim of acquiring at least 10% market shares, according to a Business Standard report. According to the company Directing ...
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Taiwan Bicycle Association (TBA) reports that a drastic increase of sales to the United States and its neighboring countries, as well as in Japan fueled a 13.9 percent increase in the country's bike exports during the first four months of ...
Tags: Bicycle Exports, high-end bike
Osaka University in Japan has developed a plasma pre-treatment for chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) on gallium nitride (GaN) that avoids creating enlarged etch pits [Hui Deng et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p051602, 2015]. Surface ...
Health conscious Australians are making beetroot a kitchen staple according to AUSVEG’s Project Harvest consumer research. Interest in beetroot has boomed among shoppers keen on in its nutritional benefits following the vegetables ...
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India-based dairy company Prabhat is planning to improve its net profit in 2015-16 by using INR1.85bn ($27.9m) out of its INR3bn ($45m) public issue to reduce debt. The company, which recently ventured into value-added products such as ...
Tags: condensed milk, milk powders
German fine chocolate producer Vivani, which is an arm of EcoFinia, has selected NatureFlex films, developed by Innovia Films, to wrap its iChoc bars. iChoc, stated to be the latest range of Vegan Chocolate, was launched at BioFach and ...
Tags: chocolate, Vegan Chocolate
Goss International will showcase its developments in offset technology at Labelexpo Europe, scheduled to be held between 29 September and 2 October, at Brussels Expo in Belgium. The company will present Alwan's Color Expertise Technology, ...
US-based 3D printer company iBox Printers has developed a high resolution 3D resin printer ‘iBox Nano 3D Printer’. The core technology is UVLCD (ultra-violet liquid crystal display) that puts to use UV gating LCDs and high-power ...
Tags: 3D printer, 3D resin, UV LED
Shoppers in the UK believe that cardboard packaging provides better protection than polystyrene and is convenient to recycle. This has been revealed in a research commissioned by Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI). A survey was ...
Tags: cardboard packaging, polystyrene
Net sales at specialty retailer of casual apparel for young women and men Aeropostale dived 17 per cent year over year for the second fiscal quarter ended August 2, 2015. For the second quarter of fiscal 2016, net sales at the retailer ...
Tags: casual apparel, apparel
Operating income at US based apparel marketer J.Crew Group crashed to $2.6 million in the second fiscal quarter ended August 1, 2015, massively down from $36.0 million in the prior fiscal second quarter. “Operating income in the ...
Tags: J.Crew Group, apparel