Filling and packaging systems company KHS Group has commenced construction on a new production facility at its site in Hamburg, Germany, to meet growing demand for PET. KHS intends to support the production of blocked systems, PET ...
China’s exports to 70 countries under its “One Belt, One Road” strategy was up 1.5% to US$ 372 billion from January to June 2015, according to China’s custom data. The country’s imports declined 18.8% to US$ ...
British flexible films manufacturer Skymark is investing in a new Nordmecanica Super Simplex solvent-less laminator to increase capacity at its facility in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, the UK. When installed in November this year, the new ...
Tags: Skymark, flexible films, medical packaging, blown film
Metal packaging products supplier Crown Holdings is to increase beverage can capacity at its Osmaniye plant, in central southern Turkey with the installation of a new production line. The expansion plans come in response to increasing ...
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Nestle Waters North America is planning to increase recycled content in most popular sized bottles of its Arrowhead brand 100% Mountain Spring Water by the end of next year. The move, which is in line with the brand's commitment to ...
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Nypro, a healthcare & packaging division of Jabil, has acquired Spanish food and consumer packaging supplier Plasticos Castella for an undisclosed amount. The addition of Plasticos' design, engineering and manufacturing facilities in ...
Tags: Nypro, smart packaging, in-mold labeling
Chinese consumers of luxury products are spending increasingly big money online, as growing use of smartphones makes Internet shopping ever easier, according to a new industry report. The report, by auditor KPMG, Chinese e-retailer ...
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China’s Light Industry Internet (CLII) recently published important lighting product export statistics for three markets during the first six months of 2015, showed export growth was highest for the Argentina market, and plunged the ...
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China's slowing power consumption and falling railway freight are signs of progress in economic restructuring, rather than evidence of failing industry, the statistics chief said on Thursday. Power use and rail freight are two major ...
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2011-2013 Yearly Export Volume Trend for China Medicine The export volume of China Medicine from 2011-2013 increased year by year, the volume respectively is 0.424 million tons, 0.461 million tons, and 0.508 million tons, increased ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) says that - in booth #536 at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015) in Valencia, Spain (27 September - 1 ...
Tags: Oclaro, QSFP28, modulated laser, transceiver
Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems) has released a 300W/400W X-band SapphireBlu SSPA/SSPB (solid-state power amplifier/solid-state power block) - based on the firm's ...
Tags: Advantech Wireless, GaN, X-Band SSPA/SSPB
With the current temperatures you might not be thinking about winter just yet, but now is the time for the transport industry to equip its fleets with suitable winter tires. For driving safely with optimal traction even on damp or icy ...
Tags: Continental, winter tires, axles
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has developed an n-type gallium nitride (n-GaN) tunnel junction (TJ) intracavity contact to reduce threshold current and increase differential efficiency in its m-plane III-nitride ...
Tags: VCSEL, n-GaN, GaN substrates, MOCVD, MBE
AkzoNobel has announced plans to invest in its Performance Coatings business in Vietnam. As well as doubling capacity at its powder coatings facility in Dong Nai, the company also intends to open a new office for Performance Coatings in Ho ...
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