Vital Access, a manufacturer of surgical and interventional technologies, has secured the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) market approval for its VWING device, a vascular needle guide developed to enable vascular access to ...
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Detroit Diesel Corp. has taken a huge leap forward with its telematics capabilities, launching Detroit Connect, bundling its existing telematics programs and bringing to market a fully-integrated tablet. Detroit Connect combines the ...
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New Zealand government has awarded $5.1m to two researchers of Massey University to assist them in improving the packaging of export food products. Modelling tools will be developed by the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health ...
Tags: Food Products Packaging, Packaging
Shaw Industries Group Inc. — a Dalton, Ga.-based floor covering provider and subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — has opened a 210,000-square-foot carpet tile manufacturing plant in Nantong, China, to help the company expand ...
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McDonald’s has introduced a new global packaging design in collaboration with Boxer, the UK and Chicago based brand design agency, to use in its restaurants across the world. According to McDonald's, the new look has been designed ...
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Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) has signed an agreement to acquire Boise, a manufacturer of packaging and paper products in the US, for about $1.9bn. The acquisition will allow PCA to increase its containerboard capacity to about ...
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The four major organisations within the German fibre reinforced composites industry have announced the foundation of a joint umbrella organisation at the Composites Europe 2013 trade fair: together they will form the trade association ...
SK Capital, a private investment firm with a disciplined focus on the specialty materials, chemicals and healthcare sectors, is expected to close the acquisition of the Textile Chemicals, Paper Specialties and Emulsions businesses from ...
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A division of the Netherlands-based Royal Ten Cate NV — and Switzerland-based Kringlan Composites AG have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of thermoplastic composite-based solutions for the manufacture of ...
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Carrier Transicold says its new Vector 8500 trailer refrigeration unit is lighter, and better performing than previous units. The company says its Vector 8500 offers the first fully hermetic electric scroll compressor used in the North ...
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Qinghai Province-based Chinese steelmaker Xining Special Steel Co. has announced that it has suspended its plan for a non-public offering of its shares against the background of sluggish demand in the steel markets and negative conditions ...
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The MHL Consortium on August 20, 2013 unveiled the new MHL 3.0 standard, pushing nine new features. Among the nine features, only seven are real enhancements, while the remaining two are just reaffirmation of the standard's existing ...
Thin client shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) in the second quarter of 2013 increased marginally by 0.1% on year to 407,417 units, according to results published by IDC in its EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device ...
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According to IDC, PC shipments in Russia in the second quarter of 2013 continued their steep decline, with volume slipping by 37.3% on year to a total of 2.47 million units. The notebook market suffered a contraction of 45.3% on year to ...
Tags: PC Shipments, Electronics
China-based smartphone and tablet makers' influence in the IT market has been growing rapidly and according to Digitimes Research's latest figures, among the 950 million smartphones shipped globally in the first half of 2013, about 330 ...
Tags: smartphone, tablet, IT market