KitKat is set to become the first global chocolate brand to use only sustainably sourced cocoa in the manufacture of all its products. This move comes as the confectionery industry faces allegations over employing child labor in cocoa ...
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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Two top scientists from the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture are in Islamabad this week to lead the annual review of the US-Pakistan Cotton Productivity Enhancement Programme, Pakistani newspapers have ...
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Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PHMA) has rejected the government's plan to impose import duty on cotton yarn saying it would pose negative impact on the value-added textile sector, the Pakistani media has ...
Tags: Yarn Import Duty, cotton yarn
Producer and marketer of recycled nylon fibres Aquafil has entered into a partnership with Outerknown, a new menswear apparel brand founded by 11 time world champion surfer Kelly Slater. An Aquafil press release informed that ...
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University of Oklahoma in the USA has developed interband cascade (IC) lasers on indium arsenide (InAs) substrates with low threshold and high-current operation [Lu Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p251102, 2015]. The researchers claim ...
University of Oklahoma in the USA has developed interband cascade (IC) lasers on indium arsenide (InAs) substrates with low threshold and high-current operation [Lu Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p251102, 2015]. The researchers claim ...
Outsourcing to Asia means frequent contact with your suppliers. One in five Australian businesses have lost out financially because of poor supply chain management. As elements of Australian supply chains are increasingly being ...
Soitec of Bernin, France has announced a new step in its SmartCell project by raising the record for concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) module solar energy conversion efficiency from 36.7% (announced in July 2014) to 38.9% Previously (last ...
Industrial thread and consumer textile crafts marketer Coats Group plc opened the day’s trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange on June 23, 2015. “The London Stock Exchange market open ceremony celebrates ...
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Boulder Canyon Foods, a brand owned by US-based Inventure Foods, has introduced new potato chips cooked in coconut oil to its existing range of kettle cooked potato chip range. The new Coconut Oil Kettle Cooked Potato Chips are made with ...
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Jowat Adhesives has inaugurated a new production site near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, to expand its production capacities and distribution activities in the region. The new Jowat site located in the Industrial Park Bandar Enstek ...
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French commercial truck and military vehicle manufacturer Renault Trucks has delivered 195 Renault Trucks C Road vehicles to Algerian company Numilog. This brings the number of Renault Trucks vehicles in Numilog's fleet up to 377. This ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched two gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) RF devices that are said to solve a number of long-standing issues for radar systems employing traditional travelling wave tube ...
Tags: GaN HEMTs, TWT Amplifiers
Manufacturer of wooden pallets and crates Depin will open a new facility at the Port of Kalama, US, in June. The firm has taken 12,000ft2 on lease at the port, where it will also shift its headquarters from Salem, Oregon. Depin owner ...
Tags: Depin, Ecocrate Operations