Automaker Ford Motor is targeting $10bn in incremental material cost reductions and lower engineering costs by $4bn from planned levels over the next five years. Ford’s newly appointed CEO and president Jim Hackett noted that the ...
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Denmark-based folded cartons producer Emballage Gruppen has invested in Domino’s seven-color N610i UV ink jet hybrid solution, in a bid to improve production operations. The seven-color system features Domino N610i integration ...
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Xeikon has introduced four new digital label presses at this year’s Labelexpo Europe event in Belgium. The event is being held between 25 and 28 September in Brussels. At the event, the company has unveiled Xeikon CX500 wide web ...
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Philips Photonics of Ulm, Germany - which provides vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) technology for datacom, consumer and industrial applications - has completed ‘VIDaP’ (VCSEL Pilot Line for Illumination, Datacom ...
Epson America has introduced SurePress L-4533AW, a new product in the digital label press lineup. The L-4533AW delivers high-quality labels and packaging at a low total cost of ownership. The Epson MicroPiezo inkjet technology delivers ...
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Belgium-based Esko said it will exhibit a range of new and powerful flexo platemaking solutions for brand owners and label converters at this month’s Labelexpo 2017 in Brussels. The company says that its technologies come with clear ...
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Automated Packaging Systems (APS) has launched a new fully-integrated counter and bag packaging system for high speed counting and packaging of small products. The Data Count U 162 Counter from DATA Detection Technologies has been ...
Source Photonics Inc of West Hills, CA, USA (which provides broadband access optical components and modules) and the Jintan Economic Development Zone have announced the establishment of a new optical laser production plant in Jintan, China. ...
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Chinese search engine giant Baidu has created a new CNY10bn ($1.5bn) Apollo Fund to invest in more than 100 new and emerging autonomous driving projects in the next three years. The company has also released Apollo 1.5, its latest ...
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Epson America announced the ColorWorks C7500 is the first color label printer to be certified by Applied Data Corporation (ADC), a provider of fresh item, recipe management, and scales management software to the grocery retail and food ...
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American grocery store chain Albertsons Companies will buy meal kit startup Plated for an undisclosed price, in a move to attract more customers to its stores. The acquisition of the New York City based food tech company, founded in 2012, ...
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O-Net Technologies (Group) Ltd of Shenzhen, China (which provides optical networking products for telecoms and datacoms applications) has launched a 980nm uncooled pump laser in small-form-factor TO-Can package, a high-power laser for ...
Norwegian ice cream manufacturer Diplom-Is has given a new look to the packaging of its sandwich products using the digital printing expertise of Flextrus’ Mediaköket. Based in Sweden, Flextrus manufactures flexible extruded ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced volume production of its lithium niobate (LiNbO3) polarization-multiplexed quad Mach-Zehnder (PM-QMZ) modulators, ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has begun volume production of 100G 40km pluggable solutions in compact QSFP28 transceivers that support the new ER4-Lite ...