Ford is investing $25m at its Kentucky plant to increase production of its Lincoln Navigator, Expedition SUVs in order to meet increasing customer demand. The company claimed that Navigator retail sales were up triple digits in most ...
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Stratasys said that Dutch 3D service bureau, Visual First, is using FDM Nylon 12CF carbon-filled thermoplastic to replace metal machine parts for its customer, The Chocolate Factory. The ability to 3D print machinery replacement parts ...
Tags: 3D Printing Material, Chocolate
Food processing, packaging and weighing equipment manufacturer Heat and Control has opened a new manufacturing facility in Chennai, India, which has a manufacturing area of more than 11,800m2. Building on a foundation of 35 years ...
Kodak said it will showcase its flexo, inkjet and software technologies and solutions for label and packaging printing at Labelexpo Europe 2017. The company is also opening Kodak Flexo HUB in Brussels, a new flexo packaging technology ...
Through the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative Program (which to drive down the cost of solar electricity and support solar adoption), Stion Corp of Hattiesburg, MS, USA has been awarded a $956,630 grant and, in conjunction ...
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Packaging products supplier Crown Holdings has opened its first beverage can manufacturing facility in Nichols, New York, US. The facility will support the company in harnessing the growing demand for specialty beverage cans in the US. ...
Tags: Packaging products, Beverage
US-based DWFritz Automation has introduced new seal inspection system for the class II and III medical device and supply packages. The new Automated Seal Inspection system (ASI) has been developed to detect hair, foreign particles, voids, ...
Tags: Medical Device, Automated Seal
US-based flexible packaging firm Vonco Products has lunched new division which will focus on the liquid-tight packaging market. The new division, known as LiquaLoc Flexibles, is intend to bring Vonco’s liquid-tight packaging ...
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Coca-Cola bottling firms Kandhari Beverages and Enrich Agro Food Products are planning to invest Rs5.1bn ($75.6m) to build manufacturing lines in Haryana state. A memoranda of understanding in this regards has been signed by the two ...
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Coles and Lion have issued recalls for milk a number of milk products sold in Western Australia after discovering a microbial coliforms contamination. The two Coles branded milks are "Coles Brand Western Australian fresh hilo milk 98% fat ...
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For fiscal second-quarter 2016 (to 26 December), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $94.1m (slightly above the $88-94m guidance). This is up ...
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Customer representatives from Southeast Asia and Africa again focused their attention on Xi’an Cummins ISM engine and went to the plant to get to know the advanced engine in the world on January, 25, 2016. Xi’an Cummins is the ...
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Finland-based consumer and specialty packaging manufacturer Huhtamaki is expanding manufacturing capacity at its molded fiber packaging plant in Lurgan, Northern Ireland to better serve the growing egg market in the UK and Ireland. Work ...
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Plessey Semiconductors Ltd in the UK has been improving its indium gallium nitride (InGaN)-on-silicon light-emitting diode (LED) technology [Liyang Zhang et al, Journal of the Electron Devices Society, vol3, p457, 2015]. A light output ...
Tags: GaN-on-silicon LEDs, Plessey MOCVD
X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG of Erfurt, Germany and Exagan of Grenoble and Toulouse, France have entered into a joint development agreement to industrialize Exagan's GaN-on-silicon technology, begin producing high-speed power switching ...