Toray Plastics (America) is set to invest around $45m to expand its Front Royal facility in Warren County, Virginia, US. As part of the expansion, the firm will add extrusion capability and a new production line to the facility, helping ...
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Ball reported second quarter 2016 net earnings attributable to the corporation of $369m, or $2.54 per diluted share on sales of $2bn, compared to $160m of net earnings attributable to the corporation, or $1.13 per diluted share, on sales of ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2016 (to 2 July, a 14 week quarter), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $125.2m, up 24% on $101.1m last ...
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AHEC collaborates with Alison Brooks Architects and Arup for 2016 London Design Festival The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), the leading international trade association for the American hardwood industry, has announced its ...
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Mondi announced half-yearly results for the six months ended 30 June 2016. Highlights Continued strong financial performance on all key metrics Underlying operating profit of €529 million, up 8% Underlying earnings of ...
Tags: metricsUnderlying, Uncoated Fine Paper, Fibre Packaging
China imported 21.20 million mt of coal in July, including lignite, thermal and metallurgical material, down 2.5% from June and 0.2% year on year, according to preliminary data released Monday by China's General Administration of Customs. ...
The one-millionth Audi Q5 drove off the production line at Audi’s main plant in Ingolstadt, Germany. The jubilee car, an SQ5 in Sepang Blue, will be delivered to a family in Germany. The international success of the Audi Q5 began ...
The payoff of Taiwanese fastener makers' effort on going upmarket is a major growth drive for the industry's sustainable development (in the photo are the high-strength, quality-approved bolts and fixings for rail construction). Although ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that, for $76.5m, it has acquired the remaining 34% stake that it did not already own in the filter joint venture it created with ...
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched the XLamp MHB-B LED, a high-power LED that enables a more effective way to deliver lower system costs for high-lumen, high-efficiency applications designed ...
For second-quarter 2016, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $75.3m, down 8.6% on $78m last quarter and 42.7% on $131.4m a year ago, consistent with ...
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Adflex has purchased FB Servo press from Nilpeter, in a bid to produce quality solutions for the customers. Adflex, which produces pressure sensitive product lables, is expertised in manufacturing high-end label identification and ...
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UK based retailer JD Williams has installed automated packaging line at its Lilac & Briar Mill facility in Shaw, Lancashire, to boost its production capacity. The retailer has installed an automated packaging line from Axiom GB as well as ...
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VariBlend has purchased Hutt automatic fill and final assembly equipment to support the production of 20mm MiniMix beauty packaging product. As part of the partnership with Cosmax, VariBlend will install one of the HUTT systems at ...
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Optima has expanded its machine range to include new entry-level solutions. These solutions currently include the flexible and completely attuned filling and closing machines OPTIMA FM1 and CM1. These new systems can also be used as ...
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