The US-based Sigma Plastics Group plans to restore the former Excelsior Rosman plant in Brevard, North Carolina, and invest $5.5m over the next three years to expand its manufacturing operations. This project will create 80 new jobs under ...
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When it hit the market in the late 1970s, Computer Numerical Control (CNC) equipment started a mechanical revolution in the woodworking industry. From the time of its invention through the decades leading up to today, computer-controlled ...
Long steel producer Siderurgica Norte Brasil (Sinobras) has received a license to expand its mill in the city of Maraba, in the state of Para, Brazil, the company announced on Thursday. The state’s governor delivered the document to ...
Tags: Sinobras, expand, Metallurgy, Mineral
Reed-Lane, a contract packaging provider in New Jersey, has expanded its 132,000ft2 facility by 30% to increase its overall production. As part of the expansion, the company is also adding fifth bottling line to the facility that includes ...
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US-based food establishment Bell & Evans has broken ground on its new chicken processing and packaging plant in Fredericksburg, Lebanon County, in the state of Virginia. The company plans to invest around $44m in the construction and ...
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American truck manufacturer Mack Trucks has announceD its plans to invest $26m for the renovation of its Macungie Cab & Vehicle Assembly facility in Macungie, Pennsylvania, US. Under the project, the manufacturer plans to significantly ...
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Driven by the fanfare over (and overestimation of) the LCD display market, the LED front-end equipment market experienced an unprecedented investment cycle in 2010-2011. The market surge was driven mostly by MOCVD reactor shipments to new ...
Tags: General Lighting, LED TV
The Caribbean Container (CCI) has commissioned a $44m waste recycling plant at its facility in Farm East Bank Demerara, Guyana, South America. The new facility is a part of the company's strategy to strengthen its recycling capabilities ...
FMC has broken ground on a new colors blending facility at its manufacturing site in Newark, Delaware, strengthening its natural colors business. The new location will cater to the growing demand in North America for highly stable, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Groupe Michelin has begun steps to close its truck tire plant in Budapest, Hungary. According to Michelin, the closing is necessary "in response to the adverse trends and aggressive competition in the European truck tire market, which ...
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Amira Nature Foods (ANFI), a leading global provider of branded and packaged Indian specialty rice, announced that it had entered into a $8.3 million contract through its Indian operating subsidiary with Buhler India Private Limited ...
The overall Front-End manufacturing trends for LED manufacturing are following the same path: decrease manufacturing costs, increase yield to improve binning, extract more light per mm² and per watt injected into the die… So all ...
Rodney Furoyama (far left), is manager of East Bay Tire's Oliver Retread plant in Hawaii, called EBT Eco. He is pictured with employees. East Bay Tire Co. (EBT), a wholesale and commercial tire dealer, has opened a retread plant called ...
Tags: tire, tyre, auto parts
Gearmotor Creates Simple Solution for Coffee Roaster A coffee equipment manufacturer has been designing coffee roasters for decades using a chain and sprocket system. Due to the cumbersome alignment and installation of this system, the ...
Tags: Roaster, Components
Sepha, a pharmaceutical packaging equipment company, is set to introduce its new series of product technologies across different divisions at Interpack taking place in May 2014 at the Düsseldorf trade fair center in Germany. The new ...