UK-based food-to-go packaging manufacturer RAP has developed a new modified atmosphere (MA) carton food tray for Moy Park, a poultry meat producer in England and Northern Ireland. The new RapTray, which is claimed to be the world’s ...
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Swiss food company Nestle is planning to invest over €25m for expansion of its research and development center in Askeaton, Ireland. The expanded facility will be located at Nestle's current plant in Askeaton. The facility ...
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British Safety Council has introduced new food safety qualifications for food manufacturers, caterers and retailers to ensure that they maintain food standards. The new regulated food safety qualifications are brought into effect to ...
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Philips originally planned to spin off its wholly-owned subsidiary Lumileds and automobile lighting business to make them an independent company by the end of the first half 2015. But on March 31, Philips announced a deal to sell a 80.1% ...
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Magnolia Brewing has expanded to a second restaurant and large new production brewery in the Dogpatch. The brewery's rapid growth and expansion required $150,000 in growth funding to ensure they met their 2015 goals. Magnolia chose to ...
This was supposed to be the diamond decade. Back in 2010, De Beers executives were touting that the coming 10 years would bring unprecedented demand and growth to the industry. Almost halfway through, it feels anything but, especially for ...
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The International Manufacturing Technology Show 2014 (IMTS 2014) of Chicago, held Sept. 8-13, brought Taiwan's exhibitors some US$50 million of orders on-site, suggesting bright market outlook for the island's machine-tool makers at least ...
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Investment firm Larsen MacColl Partners has acquired packaging solution providers S Walter Packaging for an undisclosed amount. S Walter works on designing, sourcing and delivering coordinated packaging solutions to branded consumer ...
Growth in China's vast manufacturing industry weakened in August, suggesting that the recovery in the world No. 2 economy is losing momentum and Beijing may need to spoon out more stimulus. The preliminary version of HSBC's manufacturing ...
Stuart Jones welcomes the arrival of Nicholas Akhurst to its team. He will be based at the company's West Sussex factory where it has been manufacturing for over 30 years. This follows the previous appointment of MD Alan Bennett who has led ...
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The Government of Kenya is fast-tracking setting up of three special economic zones (SEZs), which would also house apparel factories, Standard Digital reported. About 2,000 sq km are has already been set aside for the three SEZs being ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
SAP AG announces plans to collaborate with key customers to better meet the challenges faced by apparel, footwear and accessory companies. Working with adidas, Luxottica and Tommy Hilfiger, SAP envisions bringing a new fashion solution to ...
Gross production of LED chips by domestic Chinese companies (listed companies with mainly Chinese investment backgrounds) was US $8.49 million (NT $255 million), a YoY increase of 17%, according to LEDinside. Rapid increase of penetration ...
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Hickory Ground Solutions, LLC, of Heathsville, Va., is helping to ease the pain of potential tornado destruction in Central Oklahoma's oil industry with supply chain mapping analysis. This area gets hit hard with a lot of tornados. It can ...
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), is pleased to announce that longtime CFDA member, Ralph Lauren, will serve as the premier underwriter of the Fashion Manufacturing Initiative (FMI), which offers financial grants to New ...
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