HBM plastics & packaging technologies has introduced the Label Watcher Inspection machine from IntraVis Vision Systems. The label quality control system features two industrial CCD cameras with lenses using which label presence, identity, ...
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Mohawk Industries Inc. announced 2012 third quarter net earnings of $70 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.01. Excluding restructuring charges, net earnings were $72 million and EPS was $1.04, a 25% increase over last year's ...
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The European Community's Seventh Framework Program has granted funds to Dyadic International's research and development center in the Netherlands, a member of the Bio-Mimetic Project, to develop enzymes. As part of the Bio-Mimetic ...
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Kongsberg Automotive (KA) has won two contracts worth EUR68m to supply components within the fluid transfer segment from two unnamed major commercial vehicle makers. Under the first EUR26m contract from a truck manufacturer, the company ...
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DeltaTRAK has announced the launch of its new DeltaTRAK TempDot Plus time-temperature, irreversible indicator labels designed to provide positive indication that the label has been activated and is in the ‘ON’ condition. ...
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Actavis has integrated two machines into a single pick-and-place unit for liquid pharmaceutical packaging lines, through machines supplied by ESS Technologies. Through the robot, dropper tips are manually loaded into one vibratory bowl ...
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) announced the successful start-up of the 800Kt/a ethylene unit at Fushun Petrochemical, all the eight production units of the 1Mt/a ethylene capacity expansion project operated together and turned ...
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Vegware, the UK-based compostable foodservice packaging provider, has launched a compostable sugar stick. Unlike the conventional sugar sticks which use paper with an oil-based PE plastic lining, Vegware's sugar sticks replace the PE ...
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Temperature monitoring solutions developer in the US, DeltaTRAK has announced plans to introduce its new ColdTRAK TTI cold chain solution technology to track shelf life impact. The solution includes the ColdTRAK ThermoTrace TTI labels and ...
Evotec and Haplogen have signed a drug discovery partnership targeting viral infectious diseases. The drugs resulting from the partnership are expected to target a human protein that is vital for the spread of pathogenic viral ...
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UPM Raflatac has announced plans to invest in new hotmelt manufacturing capability for labelstock converters, at its self-adhesive labelstock factory in Changshu, China. The new in-house hotmelt adhesive mixing and coating technology is ...
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Consumer products manufacturing company Unilever is all set to develop pyrolysis technology to make it capable to recover fuel from the laminate sachet packaging which is being used for an increasing number of products. According to ...
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Children’s soft drink Robinson’s Fruit Shoot, which that was removed from shelves following a packaging safety scare, is returning back to store shelves. In early July, Britvic made drink was forced to recall millions of ...
TetraPak has unveiled new technologies at Anuga FoodTec 2012, an international food technology fair currently being held in Cologne, Germany. The firm said its iLine XT works as an integrator across the floor, as palletisers, pallet ...
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Medivation and Astellas Pharma have launched Xtandi (enzalutamide) capsules for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have previously received docetaxel. Xtandi, an oral, once-daily androgen receptor inhibitor ...