Vegware, a foodservice packaging provider, has expanded its product range with the introduction of a new Tasting Notes collection for street food packaging. The new compostable plastic-free eco range includes neutral-toned coffee cups, ...
Tags: foodservice packaging, recycled materials, compostable sugar sticks
The Valspar Corporation has reported fiscal third quarter 2015 net sales of $1.15 billion, a decrease of 7 percent over the prior year. Total volume was flat as growth in the Coatings segment was offset by the expected decline in the Paints ...
Tags: Valspar, Paints segment
Driven in large part by the rapid expansion of shale oil and gas drilling and production in North America, the world market for oil field specialty chemicals at the service company level reached $25 billion in 2014, up from nearly $16 ...
Tags: chemicals, coating, paint pigment, shale oil
Donaldson Company, a global leader in engine filtration, has announced that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Industrias Partmo. Partmo is a leading manufacturer of replacement air, lube and fuel ...
Tags: auto manufacture, Partmo, engine filtration
Bosch Packaging Technology will introduce its Pack 301 LS (length slug) machine for biscuits, at trade fair IBA 2015 in Munich, Germany, in September. The line will enable manufacturers pack biscuits and crackers with greater flexible and ...
Tags: biscuit packaging, packaging machine, Bosch Packaging Technology
Home theater seating producer RowOne and upholstery and case goods importer Jasper Home Furniture have promoted Laura Atkins to the newly created position of executive director of sales and marketing for both companies. She joined RowOne ...
ATLANTA — Strong upholstery and dining room business and larger sales tickets helped Havertys to a 7.2% second-quarter sales gain and a 4.8% same-store sales increase, the company reported. For the quarter ended June 30, the Top 100 ...
Tags: dining room, furniture
AV1 Group has expanded its available inventory with the addition of the Hippie Butter Hemp Seed Product line, a first-rate selection of non-GMO hemp seed products. The products are expected to be available for purchase on the site within ...
Tags: Dairy products, soy products, AV1 Group, Hippie Butter Hemp
Rigid plastic container manufacturer Plastipak Packaging, an arm of Plastipak Holdings, will pump in $9m for raising output capacity at its manufacturing unit in Pineville, Louisiana, in the US. The company, which makes rigid plastic ...
Cheese and whey products manufacturer Hilmar Cheese is planning to ramp up production capacity at its plant in Dalhart, Texas by 20%. The plans for expansion come in response to increasing consumer demand for Hilmar's products. The ...
Tags: Cheese and whey products, food manufacture, Hilmar Cheese
Driven by gross margin expansion and a lower tax rate, earnings per share surged 25 per cent, year over year at sports good and sportswear marketer Nike Inc for the fiscal ending May 31, 2015. A Nike press release informed that fiscal ...
Tags: Nike, comfortable footwear, fashionable sports shoes, sports footwear
German technical and decorative plastic materials firm Benecke-Kaliko has kicked off work for construction of a new 7,000 square metre unit near its plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, for producing Tepeo and Tepeo 2 foils for automotive ...
Tags: Benecke-Kaliko, New Mexican Unit
In the 2015/16 season, world cotton imports may recover modestly, increasing 2 per cent to 7.7 million tons with imports outside of China rising by 3 per cent to 6.1 million tons. In 2011/12, Chinese imports more than doubled from the ...
NXP Semiconductors N.V. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands has agreed to sell its RF Power business for $1.8bn to Jianguang Asset Management Co Ltd (JAC Capital, a subsidiary of China state-owned investment company JIC Capital). NXP's RF Power ...
Tags: RF Power Business, JAC
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has expressed disappointment in the Federal Government’s 2015-16 Budget, which announced the lion’s share of transport infrastructure funding to go toward roads, and no new money for ...
Tags: Rail Industry, rail infrastructure