BASF has agreed to divest its paper coating dispersions business in Pischelsdorf of Austria to Synthomer for around €30m. Synthomer Austria will acquire BASF production site in Pischelsdorf, which produces styrene butadiene rubber ...
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PPG has opened a $49m paint and coatings manufacturing facility and commercial operation in the Lipetsk region of Russia. The site will provide about 200 total positions and produce about 25 million liters (6.6 million gallons) of ...
Germany-based Heidelberger Druckmaschinen has acquired Fujifilm’s coatings and pressroom chemicals operations in the EMEA region. The acquisition allows the German firm to expand in the segment related to consumables. The ...
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Flint Group has appointed Dr Pablo Steenwinkel as technical director for its Flexible Packaging business in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Dr Steenwinkel joins Flint Group on May 1st 2017 from Avery Dennison, where he is ...
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Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled 70.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, posting an on-year decline of 1.5%, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device ...
Digital printing firm Electronics For Imaging (EFII) has signed an agreement with Netherlands-based DLL Group to finance EFI inkjet printers for signage and graphics, label and packaging, industrial textile and ceramic tile production. ...
Russian Railways is the second largest rail network in the world with over 85,200km of track and 976,116 employees. Responsible for 42 per cent of Russia's total freight traffic and 32 per cent of passenger traffic, Russian Railways carries ...
Solid State Supplies Ltd of Redditch, UK has announced a UK franchise distribution agreement with Luminus Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, which makes LEDs and solid-state light sources. "Solid State Supplies has a growing reputation and ...
The integration of LEDs into biophotonics and medical science devices is set to increase in value by a multiple of five over the coming six years, according to a new forecast by ElectroniCast, Upper Lake, CA, USA. Earlier this week, the ...
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The sales value of light emitting diode-based lamps for explosion-proof lighting applications will increase from $151.5 million in 2013 to $248.1 million in the year 2020 (equivalent to a 7.3% annual increase), according to the latest ...
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US-based coffee chain Starbucks will serve beer and wine in its store in central London. This will become the first store in the capital to serve wine and beer. 'The outlet will be called Starbucks Reserve bar. In this outlet, ...
US based apparel marketer Columbia Sportswear Company said its net sales for the quarter ended June 30, 2015 grew 17 per cent year over year and thereby created a record for second quarter sales. In a press release, Columbia Sportswear ...
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Technavio has added a new report on the global acrylic surface coatings market 2015-2019, to its coatings market portfolio, which includes reports such as emulsion coating market 2015-2019 - global industry analysis & forecast, powder ...
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Quiksilver, Inc., one of the world’s leading outdoor sports lifestyle companies, has promoted Pierre Agnes, president of Quiksilver, Inc., as the chief executive officer and added to the Board of Directors. In addition, Greg ...
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Driven mainly by a stronger demand in the Americas, sales in the fourth quarter of 2014 recovered and rose by 6.3 per cent from the year ago quarter, at sports goods and apparel marketer Puma. “In comparison with fourth quarter of ...
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