One of Australia’s most iconic food brands Dairy Bell Ice Cream has decided voluntarily to shut down after 44 years of manufacturing ice cream in Australia, and has told Australian Food News that its assets are available for sale. ...
Tags: Ice Cream, Agriculture
Epistar and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have both announced that their boards of directors have approved a transaction of TSMC Solid State Lighting (TSMC SSL) shares. Epistar will acquire all shares of TSMC SSL held ...
Recently Shandong Chengkuang Environment Protection Group developed the first waste tyre intelligent production line with Korean Dongfeng Group, and 35% of the wasted will become industrial carbon black, 40% fuel oil, 15% steel wire and 10% ...
Tags: fuel oil, steel wire, combustible gas, Transportation
Frozen seafood company High Liner Foods will halt operations at its leased manufacturing facility in Malden, Massachusetts, in the second quarter of 2015. The move is in line with the company's strategy to reduce excess capacity across ...
Tags: Frozen seafood, Agriculture
This year, for the first time at CES, gadget makers got it right, with an entire array of new technology and devices that sparkle, shine, and made me seriously swoon. Here's what caught my eye: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Panasonic's ...
Tags: CES 2015, Beauty Equipment
Indian conglomerate Dharampal Satyapal Group (DS Group) is planning to set up five new dairy production plants in the country, a move that will increase its capacity. The company intends to invest around INR2bn ($32.14m) in the expansion, ...
Tags: dairy production, butter, cheese, Agriculture
Dakine has chosen Northridge Mills to help produce its first women's swimwear line at its factory in California. The line will hit finer retail stores this spring. Northbridge is an experienced producer of competitive and beach swimwear ...
Tags: domestic production, pricing, Sporting Goods
The board of directors of Hsinchu-based Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, the world’s biggest silicon wafer foundry) has approved the sale of its stake in TSMC Solid State Lighting (TSMC SSL). Taiwan’s Epistar Corp ...
Tags: LED lighting products, Electrical
Global solar PV demand is forecast to grow by up to 25% in 2015, according to IHS. Due to the ongoing cost reductions for solar PV, IHS forecasts that installation demand will grow at a double-digit rate of 16-25% and installations in the ...
Tags: solar PV, low-concentration photovoltaic(LCPV)systems, Lights
GD Development, a PV EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractor established by Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech Energy, has announced the completion of a rooftop PV system at Kaohsiung International Airport and another at ...
Norwegian firm Tomra has launched the new Falcon sorter for baby leaf lettuce and spinach industry. The pre-sorting machine uses optical technology, which will enable quick detection of defects and its removal at the initial stage of food ...
Tags: LED lighting, rodents, bugs, plastic, Agriculture
Product sorting specialist Tomra has developed Falcon, a cost-effective pre-sorting machine for the baby leaf lettuce and spinach industry. The new machine is capable of detecting and removing gross defects at the earliest stage ...
Tags: droppings, rodents, bugs, plastic, Agriculture
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company (DuPont), has been fined $531,000 for alleged Clean Air Act violations at its chemical manufacturing plant in Deepwater, New Jersey. The EPA ...
Tags: Deepwater, skin cancer, Health
Kuwait-based Equate Petrochemical Company said it has successfully completed turnaround of its plants and also the first phase of the polyethylene plant debottlenecking project. As part of the exercise, all units were shutdown from ...
Tags: ethylene, polyethylene, ethylene glycol, Textile
New York-based investment company Gramercy Property Trust has acquired Alpha Packaging’s 211,000-square-foot manufacturing facility located in Overland, Missouri, for $11m. The property in the St. Louis County, which serves as ...
Tags: food, beverage, pharmaceutical industries, Agriculture