Plastic bottle recycling in the US had gone down by 2.4% to a little over £2.9bn in 2016, according to a new industry report. The figures were revealed by Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and the American Chemistry Council ...
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of Seoul, South Korea has launched the ‘D-series Special Color’ family of chip-on-board (CoB) LED lighting packages, which are engineered to bring out the most desirable color tones of objects whose ...
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Mars Food has completed the acquisition of Connecticut-based Preferred Brands International, a manufacturer and marketer of all-natural, ready-to-heat Indian and Asian food products sold mainly under the Tasty Bite brand. Preferred Brands ...
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UK-based Aston Martin has unveiled its super GT Vanquish S Ultimate with plans to launch the vehicle in very limited numbers. Like the regular Vanquish S, the Ultimate edition is powered by Aston Martin’s legendary ...
American food company Hormel Foods has agreed to acquire deli meat and salami company Columbus Manufacturing from Arbor Investments for about $850m. The acquisition places Hormel as a complete deli solutions provider and also boost its ...
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Valmet has received a contract to supply DNA control system for Blue Paper's new Solid Recovered Fuels (SRF) boiler, which is being developed at Strasbourg mill in France. Blue Paper is developing a new 22MW steam production plant based ...
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Constantia Flexibles has completed the €1.15bn ($1.3bn) divestiture of its labels division to Ohio-based printing company Multi-Color Corporation following the receipt of regulatory authorities. As part of the deal, Constantia ...
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Smurfit Kappa has announced the new name for its e-retail offering, eSmart, and said that the service is at the forefront of e-commerce packaging solutions. The company said it is now working with 70% of European e-retail brands and ...
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US-based Scanbuy, a provider of QR Code mobile technology services, and Kezzler have partnered to bring Internet of Packaging (IoP) to consumer packaged goods companies and retailers. Norway-based Kezzler provides product serialization, ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has introduced a new family of highly integrated wireless networking solutions for mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems. The ...
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Katoen Natie has broken ground on a new advanced plastic packaging facility in South Dallas County, US. The new facility is being developed at the 3,000-acre Prime Pointe Industrial Park, which is adjacent to Union Pacific's Dallas ...
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Donaldson has introduced the next generation of sterile air filters with its new P-SRF line. The advanced technology of P-SRF filters lowers production costs while improving the purity of air used in product processing and packaging. ...
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Corning is exhibiting its Valor Glass technology for pharmaceutical manufacturers at this year’s CPhI Worldwide event in Germany. The event is being held between 24 and 26 October in Frankfurt. Pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and ...
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Polymer giant Covestro is leading a consortium of 14 partners to study how plastics can be produced from flue gas from the steel industry in an efficient and sustainable manner. The investigation anchored by the materials manufacturer ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has opened its Optoelectronics Customer Innovation Lab, with ...
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