Posted by Rick Lingle,Technical Editor--Packaging Digest,12/19/2012 4:26:01 PM Canadian Plastics Industry Association(CPIA)released a new report that the amount of post-consumer plastic recycled in Canada has increased in 2011.An ...
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Since the middle of March and on a wave of general growth in demand, the majority of central European gluelam beam manufacturers have started to give their respective customers notification of forthcoming price increases. However, in terms ...
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The UK is to have the fastest broadband network of all major European countries by 2015,culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has claimed. Speaking at the Google Campus in Tech City,Hunt defended the government after criticism from a Lords ...
Australian roofs now have a solar power generating capacity equivalent to half the Snowy Hydro scheme as consumers react to soaring power prices and sinking prices for photovoltaic(PV)panels. First solar farm opens in WA Some 858,000 ...
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Europe's wood coatings sector is one in which there are pockets of sluggish growth or even decline but others in which there has recently been strong increases in demand, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe(CEE). It is a relatively ...
Gluten-free food manufacturer Dr Schar has opened its first manufacturing facility in the US. The European firm has seen strong growth in demand for gluten-free products in Europe and the company said the opening of the New Jersey-based ...
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Demand for protective coatings in the European Union has been weakened by the downturn in EU manufacturing due to the euro crisis. But there is a protective coatings segment—coatings for oil and gas pipeline—further east in ...
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Finnish paper company Stora Enso has announced plans to invest EUR1.6bn to build plantation-based integrated board and pulp mill in China, banking on growth in the Asian market. The mill site at Beihai city in Guangxi, for which ...
Nestlé has opened a dairy facility at Samalkha in Haryana state, India, with an investment of INR6bn ($113m). Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has urged the company to take up a collective strategy with Animal Husbandry ...
Business Line reported that the Union Government has accorded approval for extending navaratna status to Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd for a year that is till November 2013. The company's performance, investment of huge amounts in expansion ...
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Parenteral packaging supplier SCHOTT Pharmaceutical Packaging has announced plans to continue its growth in Russia by increasing the production capacities at its plant in Zavolzhe,Russia by more than 50%. SCHOTT board of management ...
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Growth in Demand for LED Lighting Triggers Need for Increased Warehouse and Manufacturing Capacity STURTEVANT, WISC. -- Cree, Inc.'s Ruud Lighting subsidiary, based in Racine, Wisc., will hold a groundbreaking ceremony today to highlight a ...
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Global demand for oilfield equipment is forecast to rise 3.8 percent per year through 2016 to $109 billion. Gains will be fueled by a substantial increase in oil and gas production as the world economy rebounds from the general economic ...
Spokespeople for ARM Cement, Kenya s second largest producer of cement behind Lafarge-owned Bamburi Ltd, said that the company is looking forward to a strong year on the back of its recently opened Dar es Salaam plant in Tanzania and the ...
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Upgrading of consumer spending, encourage independent innovation, new rural construction and urbanization and so will ensure that the domestic market for the same long-term trend of growth in demand for glass products. With the development ...
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