There is neither doubt nor dispute that the last financial year tested the grit and resourcefulness of the packaging industry. Tetra Pak achieved a 1.7% in sales nonetheless. Tetra Pak’s ‘challenging year’, the ...
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South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has announced the availability of the new Acrich3 premium LED modules with improved flicker performance for a wide range of residential and commercial lighting applications. Acrich3 premium ...
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Lite-On Technology has reported revenues of NT$18.19 billion (US$585.73 million) for March, up 26% sequentially and unchanged from a year earlier. Revenues for the first quarter of 2015 totaled NT$51.55 billion, or at the same level of a ...
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According to PPG, contractors can now achieve invisible wall repairs in less time than traditional hopper gun repair methods with the HOMAX line of PRO GRADE wall textures products for orange peel and knockdown surfaces. Combining the ...
From now on the MasterTop and MasterSeal products from the Master Builders Solutions product range will also be tinted locally at BASF sites in Germany, Czech Republic and Italy. So far, local tinting hubs only existed in Finland, England, ...
Brazilian dairy group Quatá Alimentos has invested in six filling machines from SIG Combibloc to expand its production capacity. SIG and Quatá have been working together since 2012 when two SIG Combibloc filling machines, ...
Australia’s packaging company Amcor will be acquiring the internal tobacco packaging operations of Souza Cruz in Brazil for $30m (BRL96m). Majority-owned by British American Tobacco, Souza Cruz is considered to be one of the ...
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Liquid packaging PET solution provider Sidel has developed a new spare part service that will help beverage producers decrease costs. The company's spare parts and logistics team that is part of the Sidel Services business unit has ...
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The middle school and high school teams must launch their rockets at least a mile in the air, deploy onboard science experiments, and land safely using a system of recovery parachutes. This may be a simple task for NASA engineers, but it is ...
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The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday upheld the complicated formula that Iowa uses to tax natural gas consumption, rejecting a legal challenge brought by the state's powerful ethanol industry. The owners of several ethanol plants argue the ...
After controversy has swirled for days around a group of weight-loss supplements containing a potentially dangerous chemical, many big retailers have pulled the product from their shelves. The supplements in question include the ...
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Fourteen months after General Motors started recalling more than 2 million small cars with faulty ignition switches worldwide, the company says it has repaired about 70 percent of the vehicles that are still on the road. The figures, ...
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The Aditya Birla Group has proposed a four-way restructuring plan to bring its retail business under Pantaloon Fashion & Retail (PFRL) and offer a maximum of 10 per cent equity stake to an investor in the consolidated entity, according to ...
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A two-day national workshop on the textile parks sanctioned under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) is being organised by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, in Surat on 9-10 April, 2015. The workshop, ...
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Karl Mayer is organising an Open House at its Ahmedabad, India plant on April 24, where it will exclusively launch and showcase the DS 21/30 EC 2 in a package with the GDI swivel-frame creel. “Alongside, the German warp knitting ...
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