Specialty chemicals Group Altana has acquired two companies in Brazil. As a result, the Actega division now has its own sites in South America's largest country. Both of the acquired companies are owner-operated and headquartered in the ...
Tags: packaging industry, overprint varnishes, printing inks, Construction
Spectra Colors Corporation has announced the addition of a new sales agent, Deeks & Company, which will be covering accounts for Southeast United States. Deeks & Company Inc. is a third-generation, family-owned company that has been a ...
A number of Québec's institutional investors and bankers have announced a $470m investment, in the form of preferred units, in Agropur Cooperative, Canada's largest dairy cooperative. The transaction supports the cooperative's ...
Tags: dairy product, Agriculture
Golden State Foods (GSF) owned KanPak US has finalized the acquisition of the Emmi Penn Yan Factory, a production facility for aseptic dairy products in Penn Yan, N.Y. KanPak U.S. is a joint venture partnership with Golden State Foods, ...
Tags: liquid products, dairy, meat, Agriculture
The Vietnamese retailer Canifa, in collaboration with the Australia-based international wool textile organization The Woolmark Company, has launched its first-ever collection of Woolmark-certified clothing. Following the sell-out success ...
The National Silk Board (NSB), an industry body that aims to tighten regulations and boost investor confidence in Cambodia’s silk industry, is set to open by next year, the Phnom Penh Post reported. Speaking at a workshop aimed at ...
Tags: Silk Board, raw silk producers, Textile
Ford has announced to expand its recall of vehicles related to Takata driver-side airbag inflators to 502,489 vehicles. This recall includes 2005-2008 Ford Mustang vehicles built at Flat Rock Assembly Plant between 2004 and 2007 and ...
Uform has won at the annual Ireland Kitchen Trade Guide Awards, where it was named Supplier of the Year 2014-2015. Uform has come a long way since its foundation twenty one years ago. Established in 1993, the company has grown from ...
Tags: Kitchen Trade, Furniture
Asics America has opened the doors on its newest retail store in the heart of Times Square. Located on 42nd Street between 6th and 7th Avenue, the Times Square location, with more than 4,000 square feet, is the second Asics storefront in ...
Tokyo-based Showa Shell Sekiyu subsidiary Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – says that construction has started on a 15MW solar power plant on a ...
In recognition of the importance of sustainable parking facilities and practices to the development of sustainable communities, the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI), the certification body for the U.S. Green Building ...
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The World Cotton Research Conference-6 (WCRC-6) will be held in Goiânia, the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Goiás, from June 20-24, 2016. The WCRC-6 will be organised under the auspices of the ...
Tags: cotton agriculture, Textile
According to a USDA December report, global cotton output in 2014/15 is forecast at 119 million bales, slightly below the previous season as a yield reduction more than offsets increased area. “Considerable production declines in ...
Tags: cotton output, Textile
Finland-based global developer and supplier of services and technologies for the pulp, paper and energy industries Valmet will build a new services centre in Indonesia. The company said that Indonesia is one of the key markets of ...
Tags: pulp, paper, energy industries, Agriculture
China-based LED packaging house MLS has set up a Taiwan subsidiary in a bid to launch LED light tubes and bulbs in the Taiwan market at retail prices 30% lower than market levels in 2015, according to the company. MLS plans to expand its ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Packaging