Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers are accelerating their investment plans to alleviate the problem of insufficient production capacity, despite the hazy business outlook for 2015. The Tongtai Group's board of directors recently ...
Tags: machine-tool, Machinery
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 ...
Tags: Finisar, Electronics
LED packaging service provider Unity Opto Technology has obtained additional orders for LED light bulbs from US-based retail chains, equivalent to monthly shipments of three million units, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News ...
Tags: LED Light Bulbs, Additional Orders, Lights
Pierluigi Dinelli was named chairman and CEO of Pirelli’s NAFTA region, effective Janaury 2015. Pirelli Tire North America Inc. named new leadership to head its operations in North America, effective January 2015. Pierluigi ...
Tags: CEO, market share, Auto
The garment industry in Myanmar has great potential for growth in the next 10 years, if it works towards development with strategic planning, according to the members of the Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA), Myanmar Times ...
Tags: garment industry, Apparel
Mombasa Apparels, a Kenya-based garment company, has opened a factory, set up at a cost of Sh2.2 billion, in Kenya’s coastal town of Mtwapa, Kilifi County. The new factory is expected to create 3,000 jobs and would manufacture ...
Tags: garment company, job creation, Apparel
Arla Foods Ingredients has opened its new €120m lactose manufacturing plant in Jutland, Denmark. Located next to Arla's whey processing facility Denmark Protein, the new factory is expected to produce 80,000t of lactose per year. ...
Taiwanese machine-tool makers Fair Friend Enterprise Group, Goodway Machine Corp., and Hiwin Technologies Corp. have decided to acquire Japanese machine-tool makers in a move widely seen as an attempt to convert the threat of the weak yen ...
Tags: Triggers, Machine Tool
Liqui-Box, a world leader in flexible liquid packaging solutions celebrated the grand opening of their new facility in Taizhou, China with a public opening ceremony. The ceremony marks the grand opening of the Liqui-Box site that will ...
LED packaging service provider Unity Opto Technology started production at a new factory in northern Taiwan in early November 2014 and has expanded its monthly production capacity for LED light bulbs from two million to three million units. ...
To celebrate the centenary, Ardagh formally opened its new factory extension. Since 1914, metal packaging solutions were manufactured at the Sutton‐in‐Ashfield site, originally for the production of printed fancy metal ...
Tags: Ardagh Group, Metal Packaging
Fonterra has officially opened its NZ$126 million UHT greenfield plant in Waitoa, New Zealand. The plant features state-of-the-art Tetra Pak processing and packaging equipment which will produce a range of products including UHT white milk ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, UHT Production
AkzoNobel has started operations at its vehicle refinishes plant in Changzhou, China - the company's 30th manufacturing facility in the country. The new factory adds approximately 25 million liters of capacity for Sikkens, Lesonal and ...
Tags: AkzoNobel, Vehicle Refinishes
Taiwan-based Teco Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd., a supplier of motors and household appliances, expects to continue gaining steam from its wind turbine business, as its new factory of such products in Hunan Province, central China, will ...
Tags: Wind Turbine, Electric Machinery
Coats, one of the leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts companies, has announced the opening of a state-of-the-art zips factory in Chittagong, on the eve of completing 25 years of operations in Bangladesh. The new zips ...
Tags: Coats, Zips Factory, Textile