Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated its state-of-the-art textile coating pilot line in Shanghai, China. At its headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany, the company has also installed new lab facilities, among them a lab coater. Along with the ...
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Sonoco is planning to invest $20m to construct a new high-speed composite can production facility in near Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, to produce packaging for snacks. The company is set to add three high-speed composite can production lines, ...
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American automaker General Motors (GM) will expand its presence in China with investments of $12bn between 2014 and 2017 through its domestic joint ventures. The investments will be used to open five new manufacturing facilities by ...
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Global packaging firm Sonoco has announced plans to invest about $20m in the establishment of a composite can production plant for snacks packaging in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company will also add three additional high-speed composite ...
Mondelez International has unveiled plans to establish a new manufacturing facility in Novosibirsk region, Russia, with an investment of $110m. The company is pursuing its expansion plans in the region despite increasing geopolitical ...
A consortium of British high-technology companies, led by Torotrak PLC, has won £2.4 million funding from the UK government's Technology Strategy Board towards the development of an optimised manufacturing route for key components of ...
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International automotive supplier Continental celebrated in the end of March the 8,200 square meter expansion of its manufacturing facility located in Fletcher, North Carolina, USA. The 35 million US-Dollar investment added production and ...
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As part of the Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) "Out of Vietnam" project, 20 Vietnamese textile manufacturers have visited Australia to see first-hand how wool is grown, tested and traded, as well as assessing for themselves the quality of ...
South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor is set to commence the production of heavy-duty trucks in China in 2014. The company will produce its Trago cargo and dump trucks at a new manufacturing plant in Sichuan province, which is slated to ...
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When one think of polygons, one don't typically think of a cutting edge piece of clothing, but MakerBot and Francis Bitonti have changed that equation with the introduction of the Bristle Dress. The Bristle Dress is a fully 3D printed ...
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Dal-Tile will build a glazed porcelain and colorbody tile manufacturing plant and distribution center in Dickson, Tenn., near Nashville. The 1.4 million square feet plant is scheduled to open in late 2015 and will be the Dallas-based ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2014 (ended 26 January), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported a sixth consecutive quarter of revenue growth, to a record $294m. This is up 1.1% ...
The U.S. manufacturing sector is in the midst of a technology renaissance that has the potential to bring manufacturing work back to North America for years, according to Manufacturing Engineering's annual trends report released with its ...
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Xicato has revealed that it grew its year-on-year revenues by 43 per cent in 2013. The venture-backed company, which develops and sells LED modules to global lighting manufacturers, cited growth in the retail segment as one of the factors ...
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The Bosch Group has laid the foundation stone for its new plant in Russia: from 2015, Bosch automotive technology will also be rolling off the assembly line in Samara. The site itself covers a total surface area of some 200,000 square ...
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