Rigid plastics, flexibles, and board, metal and glass packaging will drive industry expansion across the next five years. In global researcher Smithers Pira's report, called The Future of Global Packaging to 2020, it states that the $839 ...
Tags: Smith Pira, Rigid plastics, Packaging Market
GlobalFoundries of Santa Clara, CA, USA (one of the world's largest semiconductor foundries, with more than 250 customers and operations in Singapore, Germany and the USA) has announced new radio-frequency silicon solutions, further ...
Tags: Wireless Devices, semiconductor
Coles has been a focus of the TWU’s road transport campaign promoting ‘Safe Rates’. The Transport Workers’ Union has lodged an application at the road safety watchdog to force major retailers to pay transport ...
Tags: TWU, Coles, Safe Rates, Retail front
Nanoelec Research Technological Institute (IRT) in Grenoble, France - an R&D consortium headed by CEA-Leti focused on information and communication technologies (ICT) using micro- and nanoelectronics - has announced the first co-integration ...
Tags: III-Vs-on-Si, Direct wafer bonding
The chief executive of the New Zealand Food and Grocery Council (NZFGC) Katherine Rich has told Australian Food News today that the UK”s announced sugar tax will not help fight obesity. Under the UK tax, drinks which contain more ...
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Image credit: Applied Horticultural Research and Ausveg Vegetable growers concerned about low-temperatures this winter are being encouraged to use frost cloths or ‘fleece’ with a new Ausveg study proving the material is ...
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Pipetech International developed the system to address the need for pipeline operators to detect and record transient pressure events occurring in water, wastewater and petroleum pipelines. The system, which was introduced in 2005, ...
Tags: Pipeline operators, Pipetech International, Monitoring technology
The FBI and US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have warned that motor vehicles are “increasingly vulnerable" to cyber attacks. The warning comes in the wake of a demonstration by researchers that showed how a ...
Tags: FBI, NHTSA, Motor vehicles, Recall
Macfarlane Packaging, a UK-based distributor of protective packaging materials, has launched the new packaging innovation lab in order to help create bespoke, cost effective protective packaging solutions for customers. Located in ...
Organic meat company Cleaver's has updated its packaging design to include more information about how its meat was produced. Cleaver’s, which is owned by Arcadian Organic & Natural Meat Company, wanted its new branding to address ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has signed global technology distributor Avnet Inc as distributor for all its product ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has created a number of useful new resources to help stakeholders understand IES TM-30-15, which describes a new method for evaluating light-source color rendition. Created by an Illuminating ...
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has now qualified and released to production both its 2km CWDM4 QSFP28 and 10km LR4 QSFP28 client-side transceivers designed for ...
The first ever review of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) will test whether consumer protections will suit the modern market place says Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chairman Rod Sims. Speaking today at the ...
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Fresh food packaging manufacturer Linpac is planning to invest €8m in new extrusion and thermoforming capacity in Pravia, Spain, to meet growing demand for PET and rPET. In order to deliver a greater range of lighter, more ...
Tags: Fresh food packaging manufacture, Linpac, Investment, PET, rPET