Germany-based plastic extrusion lines, machines and components supplier Reifenhauser Group will acquire spinneret manufacturer Enka Tecnica. Employing 130 people, Enka specialises in manufacturing spinnerets for nonwovens, wet and dry ...
Akzo Nobel N.V. has reported a solid first quarter with positive developments in all three Business Areas despite a challenging market environment. First quarter operating income increased 42 percent to €306 million, reflecting the ...
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The Indian subsidiary of Clariant, a producer of specialty chemicals has acquired the black pigment preparations business of Lanxess, located at Nagda in Madhya Pradesh. Lanxess manufactures black pigment preparations used for processing ...
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equipped its Alcalá plant in Madrid, Spain, with a Jetmaster-Inkjet single-pass digital printer which will help customers differentiate and increase sales. Capable of printing on any kind of substrate, the flexible printer will ...
Akzo Nobel N.V. has reported positive volume growth and an improvement in return on sales (ROS) for the full-year 2014. Excluding incidentals, ROS was 7.5 percent (2013: 6.1 percent). Operating income excluding incidentals grew 20 percent ...
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Lululemon Athletica Inc. reported net revenue increased 10 percent to $419.4 million for the third quarter ended Nov. 2, from $379.9 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2013. The retailer, which is fending off growing competition in the ...
Sweden-based Indutrade has acquired all of the shares in Verbeeck Packaging Group based in Wilrijk, Belgium which has annual sales of €5m. Verbeeck is made up of a number of companies that specialise in producing cosmetics, ...
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Austria based, Lenzing said looking at the challenging conditions, it will not undertake any new expansion projects at any of its viscose staple fibre (VSF) production sites across the world. Although Lenzing continues to anticipate good ...
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Samsung has confirmed that it is exiting the global LED lamps business to focus on LED components. The company has issued a statement in which it said: “We have decided to discontinue our LED lamp business in all markets, except ...
Sales of BASF Group grew by 3% compared with the previous third quarter, reaching €18.3 billion. A sharp rise in volumes in the Natural Gas Trading business sector was mainly responsible for this growth. Income from operations (EBIT) ...
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Storopack, an American manufacturer and marketer of protective packaging solutions, has acquired the industrial packaging business of CleanPak Products based in Tampa, Florida. The acquisition would cover loose fill manufacturing and ...
Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced its financial results for the third quarter ended June 30 of the financial year 2013-14, stating that it has achieved or slightly exceeded all operating and strategic targets for the third ...
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Fujitsu Limited announced that QlikView, a business intelligence (BI) tool from data visualization product market leader Qlik Technologies, Inc., has been embedded into the data analysis model provided by FUJITSU Business Application ...
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Akzo Nobel N.V. reported positive volume development in all three Business Areas. Second quarter revenue of €3,710 million was 4 percent lower compared with the same quarter last year. The decrease was mainly due to 5 percent adverse ...
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BASF's business developed positively in the second quarter of 2014. At €18.5 billion, sales rose by 1% compared with the same period of the previous year. "This was largely the result of higher sales volumes in our chemicals business, ...
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