Ford has outlined the next phase of its China expansion strategy, focused on SUVs, electric and connected vehicles, a streamlined business structure and closer connections to Chinese customers. Executive Chairman Bill Ford and CEO Jim ...
General Motors has launched the automotive industry’s first commerce platform for on-demand reservations and purchases of goods and services. With Marketplace, drivers can now order and pay for their favorite coffee — and much ...
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Tetra Evero, which is claimed to be the world's first aseptic carton bottle, has made its US debut at Gossner Foods, a contract manufacturer in Logan, Utah. The lightweight and recyclable Tetra Evero aseptic package, which has already ...
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Videojet Technologies has introduced new high-resolution large character inkjet printers, which can be used by producers with on-demand case coding operations. The new Videojet 2351 and 2361 case coding printers, which feature patented ...
Amazon introduced “Frustration-Free Packaging,” an invention designed to reduce waste and delight customers with easy-to-open, 100% recyclable packaging, ten years ago this holiday season. Frustration-Free Packaging ends ...
Denmark-based Danish Crown through its subsidiary ESS-Food has agreed to buy 70% stake in Overberg Food Distributors, a South African foodservice business, for an undisclosed price. Overberg Food Distributors, which is based in Cape Town, ...
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Plastico has partnered with Closed Loop Environmental Solutions to introduce the first Closed Loop compliant plastic cup in the UK. Slated to be launched in January 2018, each purchase of the cup will comprise of a contribution from the ...
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Despite revolutionizing illumination, even top-of-the-line nitride LEDs are far from their maximum efficiency when operating at the high power needed for lighting applications. Logan Williams and Emmanouil Kioupakis at the University of ...
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UK-based Environmental Services Association (ESA) has recommended the HM Treasury to work with Defra to increase recycling in the country. ESA is a trade association that represents the resource and waste management industry in the UK. ...
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Austrian company Engel will showcase its inject 4.0 products and solutions for injection molders in the fields of smart machine, smart service and smart production at Plast Eurasia 2017 to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from December 6 to 9. ...
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Toyo Printing Inks, a Turkey-based inks and coatings manufacturer and a unit of Toyo Ink, is expanding its operations in the country with an investment of $26.7m. As part of this effort, the company purchased a 62,000m² plot of land ...
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Working with scientists in Texas and Warsaw, researchers at Finland’s Aalto University have made a breakthrough in revising methods largely discarded 15 years ago (‘Amphoteric Be in GaN: Experimental Evidence for Switching ...
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Goya Foods, a Hispanic-owned food company in the US, has expanded its North American Processing Center in Brookshire, Texas with the addition of 324,000ft2 of production warehouse, distribution warehouse, auxiliary buildings and production ...
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France-based private equity firm Ardian has agreed to acquire Spanish bakery companies Berlys and Bellsolà with an intention to combine the two businesses. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by the parties. Berlys ...
Bobst, a Switzerland based supplier of equipment and services to packaging and label manufacturers, has introduced new automatic packer for corrugated packaging. The Speedpack corrugated-box packer is designed to gently pick up boxes, ...
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