Green packaging and tissue products manufacturer Cascades is investing $80m to build a new containerboard packaging facility in Piscataway, New Jersey, US. The new center, which is due to start operations in 2018, will produce corrugated ...
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Imperial Frozen Foods, a portfolio company of Kenex, has acquired 100% of the assets of Greystone Foods. Greystone is a Birmingham, AL based manufacturer of branded and private label frozen (IQF) vegetables. Greystone manufactures 30 ...
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The Dow Chemical Company has developed a range of flexible packaging solutions to meet the requirements of the e-commerce market in Asia Pacific region. The company said that its patented expanded polyethylene (EPE) foam technology is a ...
MPS Systems North America and Green Bay Packaging have inaugurated a new demo and applications technology center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, US. Located on Green Bay Packaging campus, the new center provides local press manufacturing, ...
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US-based spice manufacturer McCormick & Company has agreed to acquire the food division of British consumer goods firm Reckitt Benckiser (RB) for $4.2bn to strengthen its flavor and condiments portfolio. The acquisition of RB Foods ...
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Smurfit Kappa’s SupplySmart service has reached 50,000 supply chains, taking optimisation of packaging to a new level. The industry-leading service uses evidence-based analytics and insights, to work with businesses to benchmark ...
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Atomic layer deposition (ALD) thin-film technology firm Picosun Oy of Espoo, Finland, Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) and Atom Semicon Co Ltd of New Taipei City, Taiwan have begun a joint collaboration on the ...
Heinzel Group is building a second large paper machine for the production of bleached kraft papers (MG papers) at the Zellstoff Pls location in Austria. Building work for the new machine will start during this summer and operation is ...
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Mercedes-Benz has started the production of the new S-Class at its plant in Sindelfingen, Germany. For the official start-up of the luxury saloon in the Mercedes-Benz plant Sindelfingen, an S 560 4MATIC (fuel consumption, ...
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GTI Graphic Technology has donated a MiniMatcher-4e to The Sonoco Institute of Packaging and Graphics at Clemson University. The MiniMatcher-4e is a desktop color matching booth with a 14.25″ H x 24″ W x 16″ D viewing ...
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Stephens & George has invested in saddle stitching and perfect binding systems, in a bid to expand its operations. As the installation of our second Bolero B9 gathers pace, we reflect on the reasons behind our investment within our ...
Mercedes-Benz, a division of German firm Daimler, is commencing construction work for a new passenger car plant in Russia. “Establishing a passenger car production in Russia is a strategic investment in an important sales market for ...
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has begun mass producing a new mid-power LED package, the LM301B (with samples available now), featuring what is claimed to be the industry’s highest luminous efficacy of 220 lumens per watt. ...
Sofradir of Palaiseau near Paris, France – a subsidiary of Safran and Thales that makes cooled infrared (IR) detectors for military, space, scientific and industrial applications – is developing its first very-large-format ...
General Motors has manufactured the first set of 130 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles equipped with self-driving technology at its Orion Assembly Plant in Michigan. These vehicles will join a fleet of 50 self-driving Bolt EVs already ...
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