Mexico-based Coca-Cola FEMSA has broken ground on a new $200m bottling plant in Tocancipa in central Colombia. According to the company, which is a unit of Fomento Economico Mexicano, the plant will become operational in late 2014. ...
Tags: Bottling Plant, Coca-Cola
US-based pulp and paper company Georgia-Pacific is set to launch new packaging design and product categories for its business communication papers brand Spectrum. The company is re-launching the brand in three intuitive product categories ...
Tags: Georgia-Pacific, Packaging Designs
The Dow Chemical Company is all set to expand four of its plastic franchises in Texas and Louisiana, as part of its investment strategy on the US Gulf Coast to integrate advantaged shale gas. The company will expand its High Melt Index ...
Japanese firms Ono Pharma and Bristol-Myers KK (BMKK) have rolled out the rheumatoid arthritis drug, Orencia Subcutaneous Injection 125mg Syringe 1ml, in Japan. Orencia SC, whose generic name is abatacept, restrains the discharge of ...
Scientists from the University of Strathclyde have invented a unique computer technology that helps in the discovery of smarter drugs to treat major disease, including heart ailments. Dubbed as Shapeshifting Inspired Discovery (SID), the ...
Tags: Faster Drug Discovery, Medicine
ProSight Specialty Insurance has chosen iPartners’ business intelligence and data warehouse technologies, to offer better business analytics and data management, common tools across the enterprise, and speedy value through SaaS ...
MA Assist, a UK-based provider of claims handling services for property insurers, is set to launch its new home insurance claims service, called Resilution on 2 September 2013. The new customer-centric service links an insurer's home ...
Tags: Home Insurance, property insurers
It is just over one week until Lighting and the AJ host a panel discussion on the subject of office lighting (Designing the workspace of the future) and the final part of the speaker line-up has been confirmed. Andrew Bissell, lighting ...
Tags: Construction, Lights, Lighting
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance has partnered with Aon Hewitt to offer free support and access to a national network of Medicare insurance products to the senior African American community through Aon Hewitt Navigators. Under the ...
Tags: Health Insurance, Life Insurance
Risk Management Services (RMS) has launched Group Errors & Omissions (E&O) insurance plan for life and health insurance agents in partnership with Gotham Insurance. The new plan, which is underwritten by Gotham Insurance, offers two ...
Tags: Insurance Plan, Insurance
Edwards Lifesciences announced that the injunction imposed by the District Court of Mannheim, Germany against the sales of Medtronic's transcatheter heart valves has become effective. In July 2013, the court ruled that Medtronic's ...
Tags: Heart Valves, Medicine
Spinal Modulation has enrolled the first patient in ACCURATE study, a prospective, randomized, multi-center, controlled trial designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the Axium neurostimulator system for the treatment of chronic ...
Tags: Spinal Modulation, treatment
InControl Medical has launched InTone, a non-surgical and no-drug solution designed for effective, non-invasive treatment of female urinary incontinence. InTone which is listed as a class II medical device by the US Food and Drug ...
Tags: InControl Medical, launched InTone
The US Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration has issued a final rule modifying its method of valuing the price of inputs in antidumping duty proceedings involving non-market economy countries. The rule will apply to ...
With the increasing awareness about the importance of environmental protection, several global textile makers are focusing on sustainability in textile supply chain. In an interview with fibre2fashion, Ms. Sharon Rowe, CEO and founder ...
Tags: Supply Chain, Textile Sector