French food giant, Danone, has acquired US organic food leader, WhiteWave, for approximately US $10.4 billion. Danone owns numerous dairy, water, infant nutrition and medical nutrition brands including Apatamil and Karicare infant ...
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Spanish Ebro Foods has acquired a controlling stake in flour producer and retailer Santa Rita Harinas for €4.8m ($5.34m). In a statement to Spain’s National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), Ebro said that it has bought 52% ...
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Raytheon UK's Integrated Power Solutions (IPS) business unit in Glenrothes, Scotland, has developed a high-temperature, small-form-factor bridge leg power module. Aimed at high-speed switching applications, the module has potential uses in ...
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Accella Polyurethane Systems (Accella) announced a comprehensive investment strategy based on the Bullet Liner brand, manufacturer of polyurethane spray-on coating for the transportation industry. Bullet Liner utilizes advanced chemistry ...
India based packaging firm Uflex has expanded its partnership with WaveFront Technology to manufacture Fresnel lens packaging films in Europe. The partners plan to commence film manufacturing in the final quarter of 2016. The ...
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The pan-European REFERENCE research project - created to leverage disruptive radio-frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) technology in developing industrial solutions for the performance, cost and integration needs of RF front-end modules ...
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The US Senate has approved a bill, which mandates nationwide labeling of food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMO). The bipartisan bill, which mandates GMO labeling contents with words, pictures or a bar code on the ...
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Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Rutgers University in the USA believe that charge polarization in III-nitride materials has not been adequately understood up to now [Cyrus E. Dreyer et al, Phys. Rev. X vol6, ...
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US-based Ancera has raised $8.9m in Series A funding to develop technology that assists food producers to identity contaminants quickly. The funding round is led by existing investor Glass Capital, with participation from Packers ...
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The decision of the British people to leave the EU has shocked many people. Even those fearing that the referendum may result in the undoing of the work of many previous years for a stronger union of the European nations, had a sense of ...
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In-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that, following the request of customers and utilizing the modular concept of its new Gen3 in-situ platform, it has customized and expanded the related in-situ metrology ...
SnackWell's, a pioneer in the low-fat snack category, has expanded into the breakfast product category with new better-for-you Biscuit Thins, which are now available nationwide in select retailers, including Walmart, Jewel, Lunardi's, Food ...
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The California Craft Brewers Association (CCBA) announced that now there are more than 700 craft breweries operatiing across the state. The industry reaches this historic milestone during the early bird ticket sale for the CCBA's annual ...
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car2go, a car-sharing service and a subsidiary of Daimler Group announced that it will start its operations in Brussels, Belgium from October 2016. The world's largest free-floating car-sharer starts up business with 300 vehicles in an ...
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Maxion Wheels has opened a new light vehicle aluminum wheel plant in Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new plant, adjacent to the company's existing steel wheel plant, will add two million aluminum wheels per year in capacity and create an ...
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