Packaging firms around the world have formed a new group to develop collection and recycling opportunities for paper cups and identify solution to transform used paper cups into a valuable source sustainably. The new group, Paper Cup ...
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Corrugated packaging company Smurfit Kappa has partnered with ESTL, a Belgium-based provider of delivery services, to provide customers with packaging, transport, security and logistics solutions. According to Smurfit Kappa, around 4% ...
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UK-based food producer Whitworths has selected global enterprise applications company IFS Applications 8 to improve manufacturing efficiency, stock control and supply chain forecasting. To be deployed across the whole business, supporting ...
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German automaker Daimler along with its Romanian subsidiary Star Transmission has commenced the construction of a new Mercedes-Benz assembly plant in Sebes, Romania with an investment of EUR300m. The company expects to assemble new ...
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Proxima, the global procurement services provider, announces today that it has been appointed on a multi-year contract to manage the costs of all indirect categories at Dairy Crest, the leading British dairy products company. Proxima ...
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KeHE Distributors has signed an agreement to acquire Nature's Best, a distributor of health and natural food products in California. KeHE stated that the acquisition will help the company to expand its national distribution capabilities, ...
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While China-based panel makers have been expanding production capacities to increase global market share, China-based glass substrate makers, mainly the Tunghsu Group, Irico Display Device and China National Building Materials, are still ...
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A month ago, Tetra Pak began a campaign to force packaging companies to increase supply chain sustainability. Resource efficiency means looking at packaging's entire life cycle, the company emphasized. "You need to understand your supply ...
Quiksilver, Inc. entered into licensing agreements for several product categories, including Roxy young girls and children's apparel, watches and socks/legwear, as well as other product categories including luggage, beach towels and ...
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June average retail price for 7W LED light bulbs (equivalent to 40W incandescent ones) in the China market decreased 7.8% on month to CNY34.50 (US$5.50), while 9W ones (equivalent to 60W incandescent models) saw their average price increase ...
Under the leadership of the European Defence Agency (EDA), the multi-national R&D project MANGA (Manufacturable GaN-SiC-substrates and GaN epitaxial wafers supply chain) says that it has succeeded in implementing a supply chain for the ...
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Electronic cigarette consumers are now more quality conscious. They want something that is US produced so that they could somehow feel certain that their safety is secured while they are vaping. With this in mind, more and more ecigarette ...
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The PC industry has recently started regaining momentum with Intel, AMD as well as Taiwan-based upstream component suppliers aggressively preparing for potential demand in the second half of 2014, according to sources from the upstream ...
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Retailing in India is one of the pillars of its economy and accounts for 14 to 15 percent of its GDP. The Indian retail market is estimated to be US 500 billion dollars and one of the top five retail markets in the world by economic value. ...
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The opening keynote will be delivered by Philip Law, the new director-general of the 81 year-old body, which has more than 400 members across the plastics industry supply chain, including polymer producers and suppliers, additive ...