Coca-Cola HBC has invested €7m to upgrade to its bottling plant in Timisoara, Romania. The high-speed bottling line, compatible with 330ml and 500ml formats, will enable the company to reach a capacity of 90,000 bottles an hour. ...
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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 ...
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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A new report from Smithers Pira expects the worldwide rigid plastic packaging consumption to grow during 2017–2022 at an annual rate of 3.7% to 63.4 million tonnes. Economic and demographic trends are key determinants of packaging ...
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Apetit Group has agreed to divest its seafood business in Finland, Norway and Sweden to Insula for an undisclosed price. The divested seafood segment of Apetit is made up of Apetit Kala fish processing business which salmon and rainbow ...
Claranor will exhibit its chemical free packaging sterilization solutions at this year’s Drinktec event in Germany. At the event, which will take place from 11 to 15 September in Munich, the company will exhibit Puls’Full Cap ...
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BMW is offering two new versions of its high-performance SUV flagships, the X5 M Black Fire edition and X6 M Black Fire edition. Black is powerful, black is exciting, and black is exclusive: the same can be said of the new Black Fire ...
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has announced the installation of 2848 of its solar panels (equivalent to 484.16kW in capacity) on ...
The global compound semiconductor market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.47% during 2017-2021, forecasts market research firm Technavio. The report ‘Global Compound Semiconductor Market 2017-2021’ ...
The number of iPhone 8 handsets available for purchase at launch may be more limited than usual, according to a new report. Every year, Apple announces an iPhone in September, and then proceeds to sell them by the bucketload. But this ...
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Finnish industrial supplier Valmet has received an order to supply its Advantage NTT tissue production line to Sofidel’s Ibertissue mill in Bunuel, Navarra, in Spain. As per the order, Valmet will supply NTT 200 tissue production ...
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MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has unveiled a development kit targeted at helping ...
Tags: RF Systems, power transistors
The market for global diamond materials for semiconductor applications will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.26% over 2017-2021, forecasts a report by Technavio. Diamond materials for semiconductors are crystalline or ...
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Plastic caps and closures manufacturer United Caps has opened a automated warehouse in Wiltz, Luxembourg. The warehouse is expected to increase the company’s storage capacity by 30%, from 3000 palettes to 4500. The facility is ...
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In booth #1042 at the IEEE MTT International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2017) in Honolulu, Hawaii (6-8 June), Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based ...