China's State Council has unveiled a ten-year national plan, Made in China 2025, designed to transform China from a manufacturing giant into a world manufacturing power. The plan, endorsed by Premier Li Keqiang, is the country's first ...
Glass container manufacturer Owens-Illinois (O-I) is buying Mexican company Vitro's food and beverage glass container business for around $2.15bn, to gain a competitive position in the Mexican glass packaging market. O-I will acquire ...
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NatureWorks said it has unveiled a new initiative to support the growth of the additive manufacturing market and its move to support the 3D market comprehensively, is based on a three pronged approach. “It includes the introduction ...
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Apparel marketer PVH Corp will use Talon International’s Tekfit proprietary stretch technology in collars of its dress shirts. In a press release, Talon a supplier of zippers, apparel fasteners, trim and stretch technology ...
While there is still some interest in digestive health claims on food products globally, changes in legislation around such claims have meant that food manufacturers have started to focus more on specific ingredients with a ...
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Specialty food ingredients company Campus has partnered with White Bridge Investments to ramp up internationalization and commercial network expansion. Both the companies have signed an agreement to this effect. White Bridge, the new ...
At the LIGHTFAIR International (LFI 2015) trade show in New York (5-7 May), the Oslon SSL 730nm LED of Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany received both an Innovation Award and a Technology Innovation Award. Judged by an ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2015 (ended 28 March), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $83m, down 13% on $95.4m a year ago and down 4% on ...
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AkzoNobel is helping customers in China to make more efficient use of limited land resources by expanding its portfolio of locally produced agrochemical products. China has a well-documented shortage of arable land, which means ...
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Swiss agribusiness Syngenta has rejected $45bn acquisition offer from global seed technology major Monsanto for the second time citing unfavorable terms for shareholders. If the proposed deal advances, an industry leader with combined ...
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Glanbia Ingredients Ireland (GII), the largest private stakeholder in Moorepark Technology, and Teagasc, an Irish semi-state authority involved in research and development in the agri-food sector, have teamed up to develop new products. ...
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Ball Packaging Europe has launched the 25-centiliter slim can with an in-built straw, in the Polish market. The straw-integrated can will debut with Sulimar Brewery's Cornelius Grapefruit flavored beer. The self-activated straw pops ...
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At a ceremony today at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, NevadaGov. Brian Sandoval officially granted the first license for an autonomous commercial truck to operate on an open public highway in the United States to Daimler Trucks North America ...
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China's exports are mainly labor-intensive products, and the export of high-tech and high added-value products need to be promoted. Trade frictions dented exports of high-tech products and become a new concern for China and its trading ...
Global viscose giant Aditya Birla has announceed its industry-leading policy to eliminate any sourcing from the world’s ancient and endangered forests for all of its viscose fibres, which are widely used in clothing and textiles, ...