Amcor has acquired South African flexible packaging giant Nampak Flexibles and with it, market leadership in the region. In combination with Amcor’s current business in Africa, the closing of this deal firms up Amcor's leadership ...
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Freudenberg Performance Materials has upgraded Evolon, a microfilament fabric by launching Evolon 3D, whose surface volume has increased and become more, refined, paving the way for other applications. “Combining a top-of-the-range ...
Tags: Evolon 3D, chemical binders
Health trends, volatile input prices and strong competition have slowed growth in Australia’s snack food sector, according to market research organisation IBISWorld. However, the ‘healthy’ snack foods sector has benefitted ...
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The company has been providing around €3m of packaging to the Irish market, serviced from the company’s three UK manufacturing sites. ICS Europaks will be run as a stand alone unit within the Rigid Containers Group, and expands ...
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Chairman Jimmy Chu of the Fair Friend Ent. Group, Taiwan's biggest machine-tool conglomerate by revenue, announced plans to go public in Taiwan around the end of 2017 by consolidating resources of all of its subsidiaries worldwide. The ...
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Specialty chemicals producer Clariant has inaugurated a new manufacturing facility that it acquired through its recent purchase of healthcare packaging company VitaPac. The addition of the manufacturing facility, located in southeast ...
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Fonterra enters partnership with Chinese infant formula manufacturer New Zealand-based dairy giant Fonterra has confirmed that it has acquired an 18.8 per cent share in leading Chinese infant formula manufacturer, Beingmate Baby & ...
New Zealand based dairy co-operative Fonterra has agreed to acquire 18.8% stake worth $561.32m in Chinese infant formula manufacturer, Beingmate Baby & Child Food Company. The co-operative group has purchased 192.4 million shares in ...
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Fonterra expands with new plant in the Netherlands New Zealand-based dairy giant Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited (Fonterra) has commissioned its new dairy ingredients plant in Heerenveen, in the north of the Netherlands. The ...
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Chairman Jimmy Chu of the Fair Friend Ent. Group (FFG) announced that his company will enter into alliance with Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC) to develop and manufacture composite materials for aircrafts. FFG, Taiwan's ...
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US-based private equity firm Delos Capital has acquired Illinois-based customized and engineered packaging products manufacturer, FCA Packaging, for an undisclosed amount. The company was acquired from a group of private investors and ...
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Linpac calls the UK home. But it has had a manufacturing site in Bunbury, Perth since 2013 and in 2015 it will have a new one in Melbourne. With a site on both the east and west sides of Australia, Linpac intends to supply the latest design ...
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The plastic pots for Simpson’s of Manchester’s Christmas Puddings that are being sold exclusively through Spar supermarkets for the 2014 season have been supplied by RPC Bebo UK. Simpson's which is a family-run business ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2015, fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $297m, up 2.2% on $290.7m a year ago but down 9.4% on $327.6m last quarter (its first ...
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Scapa Healthcare Scapa announces the launch of its new Healthcare focused website www.scapahealthcare.com The new site has extensive content dedicated to the Healthcare market place, including information on our range of Scapa Soft-Pro skin ...
Tags: Healthcare focused website, Health