A consortium of companies in the European process industry from the areas of biotechnology, renewable resources, chemistry, process engineering, equipment supply as well as research organizations recently launched project PRODIAS ...
Tags: BASF, European process industry, Renewable-Based Products
Quiksilver Inc. reported its losses narrowed on a 13.7 percent decline in sales for the first quarter ended Jan. 31, but of the "revenue cut-off issue" the company cited two weeks ago as the reason for postponing the release of the ...
Tags: Quiksilver, Q1 Sales, Footwear
Dutch brewing company Heineken is planning to build a new brewery in northern Mexico, which will see an investment of around $470m. The proposed plant will be capable of producing nearly 5 million hectoliters of beer annually. The ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED packaging service provider Lextar Electronics, in view of fast growing demand for LED lighting, will expand its monthly LED epitaxial wafer production capacity by 20-25% from 300,000 wafers ...
China's "new normal" economy, although growing at a slower pace, actually added value last year as more jobs were created, inflation was under control, and trade rose, said a senior official at the National Bureau of Statistics yesterday. ...
A six-meter-high industrial gas flow was discovered at a shale gas well in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, marking a breakthrough in shale gas development in north China, local authorities said Sunday. The well, based in coal-rich Ordos ...
Tags: Industrial Gas, Natural Gas
China's central bank seems to have moved to stabilize the yuan despite mounting market sentiment that the currency has been toward the upper limit of its daily trading band for the past week. The reference rate the People's Bank of China ...
Australia saw a rise of 1.9 per cent in both the volume and value of wine exports in 2014, according to the latest Wine Export Approval Report, released by the Australian Grape and Wine Authority (AGWA). Premium wine segments saw ...
Tags: wine exports, wine
Innovative food discovery app Handpick has officially launched its iOS app and website in the US, as well as announced its Series A funding. The new app allows food lovers access to over 10 million socially shared food posts from ...
Tags: food blogs, semantic technology, Agriculture
Nate’s Food has broken ground on the development of a new facility that would increase production by approximately 10 million cans per year. The new facility would increase the Company's capacity from 5 million cans annually to 15 ...
ShopClues, an Indian online marketplace said it has raised over US $100 million in Series D from a group of investors led by Tiger Global, which also saw investments from a majority of existing investors. Founded in Silicon Valley in June ...
Tags: online marketplace, Apparel
In 2014, Volkswagen Group's global sales was 10,137,000, up 4.2% on 9,731,000 of 2013. It includes the sales of heavy-duty commercial vehicle: Germann and SCANIA brands. VW's sales breaks 10 million units for the first time. And ...
Tags: Volkswagen, SCANIA, vehicles
The procurement of cotton by the state run Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has neared 5 billion bales of 170 kg each, during the ongoing season October 2014-September 2015, according to media reports. The CCI is actively purchasing ...
Sensirion, the Sensor Co. Mouser Electronics, Inc. announces that they have entered into a global distribution agreement with Sensirion AG. Mouser Electronics, Inc., a leading global distributor and developer’s top choice for ...
Spotify has just announced that it now has 15 million subscribers paying for its premium service. This brings Spotify’s total active users to somewhere north of 60 million globally. The streaming service made the ...
Tags: Subscribers, Consumer Electronics, Spotify