AkzoNobel has announced plans to invest in its Performance Coatings business in Vietnam. As well as doubling capacity at its powder coatings facility in Dong Nai, the company also intends to open a new office for Performance Coatings in Ho ...
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PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has introduced a new platform of liquid and powder coatings systems for the automotive parts and accessories industry across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The new platform ...
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Capacity expansion by Chinese LED chip makers has resulted in a supply glut, with this year's LED chip supply-demand ratio reaching 22%, according to the latest '2015 Global LED Industry Supply and Demand Database Report' by LEDinside (a ...
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The Pro Mach End of Line Group, showcases at Pack Expo Las Vegas 2015, September 28-30, a host of stand-alone and integrated systems from such brands as Brenton, Currie by Brenton, DEKKA, Edson, IPak, Orion, and Wexxar/BEL. The Pro Mach ...
Tags: integrated case packing, robotic palletizing, stretch wrapping line
Switzerland-based food and beverage packaging firm Tetra Pak has launched a new high performance filling machine for chilled distribution. The new Tetra Pak TR/G7 has the capacity to produce 6500 gable top packages every hour with ...
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Axalta Coating Systems will showcase its Harmonized Coating Technologies, a consolidated coating system, in China at the SURCAR 2015 automotive body finishing show in Shanghai. Combining latest generation waterborne coatings with ...
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For first-half 2015, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has reported unaudited results in line with expectations and its July trading update. Revenue was £53.2m, down 11% on £60m in second-half ...
PPG Industries' automotive refinish business has reached a key milestone as more than 15,000 PPG customers worldwide—collision centers, distributors and dealerships—are now benefiting from the Internet connectivity capabilities ...
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Barentz, a food ingredients distributor, has acquired New Skyport, a Chinese distributor of specialty ingredients, following its recent cash injection. Barentz holds a robust position in specialty ingredients, functional and ...
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GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, is displaying its new GS66540C 650V 100A high-current GaN power ...
Morton Salt, a unit of the K+S Group, is planning to end packaging and warehousing operations at its facility in Chicago, the US. The cessation of the operations will be completed by this October-end, putting 23 jobs at risk. However, the ...
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Nova Chemicals has invested in a new Sacmi semi-commercial scale compression molding machine to boost caps and closures production. Being installed at Nova Chemicals' center for performance applications in Calgary, Canada, the new ...
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For the eighth consecutive year, Total Hockey, Inc. has been named to the Inc. Magazine list of 5,000 fastest-growing private companies. Total Hockey has claimed position No. 2,981 after experiencing a three-year growth rate of 117 percent ...
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Inventec Corp., a major EMS (electronics manufacturing services) provider headquartered in Taiwan, reportedly has become a supplier to Fitbit, the American vendor of wearable devices that recently went public on the New York stock exchange ...
Precor has reached an exclusive worldwide distribution agreement with Mad Dogg Athletics Inc. under which Precor will assume all commercial Spinner bike production for an entirely new line of commercial Spinner indoor cycling equipment. ...
Tags: Precor, indoor cycling products, Fitness