Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC), in collaboration with SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association (SPI), have launched a multi-hospital plastics recycling project in Chicago. Focused on non-infectious plastic packaging and ...
Fitset, a website offering access to fitness classes at hundreds of local fitness studios for a single membership fee, was chosen as a finalist in the 2016 TEC VenturePrize Business Plan Competition. Business incubator TEC Edmonton ...
Tags: Fitness, Fitness Class, TEC VenturePrize Business Plan Competition
An award-winning independent bed retailer has backed calls for a national sleep strategy and 'slumber number' to guide the public on how much sleep they should be aiming to get. The Royal Society for Public Health’s report Waking Up ...
Transilwrap Company, a manufacturer of specialty film products, has signed a letter of intent to acquire the specialty films business of US based Dow Chemical. Dow's specialty films business provides film solutions used in medical, ...
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Athletico Physical Therapy wraps up National Athletic Training Month (NATM), which ran through March, by demonstrate gratuity for athletic trainers. Athletico held fundraising events and public education programs with NATM to increase ...
Mercedes-Benz has started local vehicle production in Brazil with a new plant in Iracemápolis. The site was officially opened in the presence of guests from politics, industry and society. Mercedes-Benz has started production at ...
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Naturex, Australia’s major vitamin and herbal brand, has entered into a long-term preferred partnership agreement with Swisse Wellness for the supply of natural ingredients. Under the partnership, both the companies will also work ...
OpSec Security has started negotiations to acquire the security business of API Holographics, which primarily serves the UK market. API Group plans to complete the divestment process by April, after consulting with the employees, ...
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Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN) will co-locate a packaging plant with the nutritional powders plant dairy company Murray Goulburn (MG) plans to build in Victoria. MG has forged long-term supply agreements with global paediatric nutrition ...
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GE Aviation (an operating unit of GE) has been awarded a $2.1m contract from the US Army to develop and demonstrate silicon carbide (SiC)-based power electronics supporting high-voltage next-generation ground vehicle electrical power ...
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Researchers in the UK have claimed the first demonstration of laser diodes grown directly on silicon that perform up to 75°C and 120°C under continuous wave (cw) and pulsed operation, respectively [Siming Chen et al, Nature ...
Tags: Quantum dot lasers, GaAs, Silicon substrate, MBE
Private equity firm Quad-C Management has invested undisclosed sum in rigid container and life sciences packaging distributor Inmark Packaging. Under the terms of the deal, which is structured as an owner-operator recapitalization, ...
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Matrox Imaging has introduced Matrox SureDotOCR, an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology designed to address the challenges of using inkjet-printed, dot-matrix text in vision inspection applications. The OCR technology will be ...
According to the latest market research study released by Technavio, the flexible packaging market in China is expected to reach $12bn by 2020, growing at a CAGR of almost 8% during the forecast period. This research report titled ...
Tags: Technavio, Flexible packaging market, China, Market research
CCL Industries has appointed Guenther Birkner as president of the Healthcare & Specialty business at CCL Label in addition to his existing responsibilities in Food & Beverage. Peter Fleissner is appointed president of CCL Design, ...
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