Research facility plays key role in Finnish paper chemicals firm's sustainability plans At a temperature-controlled Kemira laboratory in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, one can find lab workers and technicians huddled over consoles ...
Royal Philips NV of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (the world's largest lighting producer) has agreed to sell an 80.1% stake in its combined LED components and Automotive lighting business to GO Scale Capital, a new growth-stage investment fund ...
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Symplicity Spyral Multi-electrode Renal Denervation Catheter (Image courtesy of Medtronic) The medtech giant isn’t giving up yet on renal denervation, if a new announcement is any indication. Chris Newmarker Medtronic is ...
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The State Council, China's cabinet, has promised policies to boost e-commerce, including through cutting red tape and liberalizing investment rules covering a sector it recognizes as very important to the economy. E-commerce is ...
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Treasury Wine Estates has put up several of its wineries for sale and is planning to close packaging and warehousing facility near Mildura, Australia as part of a major cost-cutting initiative. Treasury Wine Estate's T'Gallant winery ...
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ShanghaiTex 2015 which runs from June 15-18 June, 2015 will have seven theme zones spread across nine exhibition halls over 103,500 square meters of exhibition area. The Knitting and Hosiery Machinery Zone located in Hall W1 and W2 will ...
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In recent years, environmental protection has become an important issue for the Chinese government and for Chinese citizens from all walks of life, rising to the same status as economic development. According to transport development and as ...
Last year, Asia Pulp & Paper installed solar panels in China that are providing 70.5 megawatts of solar power. APP is to add another 200 megawatts across eight of its mill companies in China. That is enough to power more than 500,000 ...
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PSA Peugeot Citron's Trémery plant in north-eastern France has announced plan to add a new production module to meet rise in demand for the EB Turbo PureTech three-cylinder petrol engine. The company's executive committee took the ...
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A Swedish initiative has helped Indian apparel suppliers to Swedish brands like KappAhl, Indiska and Lindex, reduce environmental impact and improve capacity through training on resource efficiency. The Sustainable Water Resources (SWAR) ...
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Volkswagen has announced that the company will be cutting a shift from its Russian plant in Kaluga, which will result in 150 job losses. The German automaker said, starting this April, the Kaluga car plant located in south of the capital ...
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Graff's Ameties Ring was announced recently as a finalist for the 2015 architizer A+ Awards in the product +Bath – Fixtures and Fittings Category. Now in this third year, The Architizer, A+ Awards are the definitive global ...
Schur Pack Germany, makers of folding boxes, is building a 28,000 square metres folding box facility with an investment of around €70m, said to be one of Europe's most modern. The company is making this investment at the future ...
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Before you start kicking up dust this spring as planting gets rolling, make sure you're not only doing everything right but also avoiding the things you shouldn't be doing, whether it be small-scale agronomic matters or farmwide management ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) is sampling a new dual micro-ITLA (integrable tunable laser assembly) featuring a 25% reduction in size and 1 Watt lower power ...
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