Chinese multinational technology firm Baidu has secured first batch of licenses to carry out road tests for autonomous vehicles in Beijing. At the launch ceremony today, five cars powered by Apollo, the open autonomous driving platform by ...
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Pairwise Plants has closed a $25m Series A funding round co-led by Deerfield Management and Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the venture capital arm of Monsanto to accelerate crop innovation. Pairwise is an agricultural company focused on ...
Sweden-based AR Packaging has introduced fully repulpable paper cups manufactured with industrial cup forming technology in Russia and the UK. The cups have been designed with major focus on sealing consistency, efficiency and barrier ...
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Petainer, a provider of plastic container solutions, has expanded its global keg product portfolio with the introduction of petainerKeg Hybrid. The new petainerKeg Hybrid has been developed by a team of scientists and technical experts at ...
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Blue Bunny has launched Load’d Sundaes, an ice cream line that intends to offer an out-of-home ice cream sundae experience right from the freezer. Load'd Sundaes are made with premium ice cream that's specially crafted to be soft ...
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Macfarlane Packaging, the UK’s distributor of protective packaging materials, will showcase packaging solutions to help businesses reduce cost and waste at Packaging Innovations 2018 event to be held at the Birmingham NEC from 28 ...
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Archroma has introduced Leucophor MT liq, a new tetrasulfonated optical brightening agent (OBA) modified to give high whiteness performance in surface applications. The application of optical brighteners to the surface of paper is usually ...
Foodservice retailer McDonald’s said by 2025, it plans to use packaging that come from renewable, recycled or certified sources. The company announced goals to enhance its packaging and help reduce waste to positively impact the ...
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi automotive alliance has launched a venture capital fund to invest up to $1bn in the next five years. The new entity will act as main interface for start-ups, investors and the venture capital ecosystem to ...
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Researchers from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and experts from industry and academia have developed software tools, which can predict the fiber orientation and length distribution of ...
Specialty chemicals producer Clariant is planning to revise its ColorForward trend-watching platform, designed to help forecast colors for use in plastics products and packaging. In collaboration with its Masterbatches business unit, ...
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Quadpack has delivered a customized packaging for beauty brand Skeyndor’s newly launched anti-ageing range ‘Timeless Prodigy’. The Spain-based cosmetic packaging company has manufactured and developed a bespoke jar for ...
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German automotive parts supplier Continental has agreed to acquire Israeli start-up Argus Cyber Security for an undisclosed amount. Post the acquisition, Argus Cyber Security will be part of Continental’s subsidiary Elektrobit (EB). ...
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Smurfit Kappa has announced the new name for its e-retail offering, eSmart, and said that the service is at the forefront of e-commerce packaging solutions. The company said it is now working with 70% of European e-retail brands and ...
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American Packaging Corporation Story City/Flexo Center of Excellence recertifies STAR designation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as part of the agency’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP). The VPP program ...
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