Ford Motor Company will begin making its London-based GoDrive car-sharing service available to the public, offering flexible, practical and affordable access to a fleet of cars for one-way journeys with easy parking throughout the city. ...
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Tesla Motors is acquiring US-based stamped parts manufacturer Riviera Tool for an undisclosed amount The company is looking at increasing the production of its Model S electric sedan and new luxury electric crossover, the Model X and ...
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Axalta Coating Systems has begun construction on a new Asia-Pacific R&D and Technology Center. The new facility, which has been approved by Axalta’s Board of Directors, will be located in Shanghai’s Minhang Industrial ...
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AkzoNobel has announced plans to invest more than €20 million in its organic peroxide production facilities in Mons, Belgium, and Houston (Pasadena), Texas, in the US. In Mons, the company is introducing new technologies to increase ...
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Netherlands based textiles speciality chemicals marketer, Tanatex Chemicals has launched Express FR; a flame retardant concept for PES. According to a Tanatex press release, ensuring flame retardant properties as a PES is difficult, ...
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Australia-based packaging solution provider Amcor has announced the acquisition of South African packaging company Nampak Flexibles for $22m (ZAR250m). Amcor specialises in supplying a range of rigid and flexible packaging products to ...
At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and provides gallium nitride-based power conversion ...
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Automotive supplier Magna International has commenced construction on a new automotive exteriors manufacturing facility in Queretaro, Mexico. The company is investing $135m on the 285,000 ft2 plant, which will manufacture molded and ...
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John Bean Technologies Corporation (JBT) has secured a contract to supply a new juice processing line to a customer in the Middle East. The $7m contract will require the company to supply and integrate a new juice processing line for the ...
Ford’s Oakville Assembly plant has commenced production of 2015 Ford Edge, which will be exported to more than 100 countries. The Oakville Assembly plant has also added 400 new employees in addition to the 1,000 employees who will ...
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New Zealand based Fonterra Co-operative Group has started operating its new dairy ingredients plant in Heerenveen, the Netherlands. Located on a 25-hectare site, the new facility has been developed to produce whey and lactose specialty ...
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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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Ford today revealed the all-new Focus RS, a high-performance road car that debuts Ford Performance All-Wheel Drive with Dynamic Torque Vectoring Control, which contributes to performance never before seen in a Focus RS. The all-new Focus RS ...
Dematic Group, a supplier of integrated automated technology, software and services to optimise the supply chain said it has acquired FSU Investments and in turn SDI Group Europe. SDI Group Europe is a supplier of garment-on-hanger and ...
British beverage can maker Rexam, along with Envases Universales de Mexico (EUM), has acquired Envases Del Istmo (Endelis), a single line beverage can plant in Colón, Panama. The acquisition complements Rexam's existing Central ...
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