This month sees the launch in Grenoble, France of the three-year, €7.2m European Union ‘Horizon 2020’ project ModulED, which brings together 10 European research institutes, key members of the automotive-industry value ...
Hilton Foods has agreed to acquire chilled UK fish processor Icelandic Group UK (Seachill) for cash consideration of £80.8m. The Company also announces its intention to conduct a non-pre-emptive underwritten cash placing to raise ...
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India-based flexible packaging firm Uflex has developed a new three dimensional packaging solution for Veetee, a rice supplier in the UK. The new pack features a front openability through a Slide to Close (STC) zipper intended to allow ...
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MPS, a provider of flexo and offset press solutions for label and flexible packaging printers, has launched its innovative ‘talk to me’ real-time connectivity platform at Labelexpo Europe 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. The ...
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Siegwerk, a provider of printing inks for packaging applications and labels, has expanded its digital ink footprint by opening a new production facility for inkjet inks in France. The firm has expanded its technical center in Annemasse, ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA – which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications – has made available the ...
Swedish automaker Volvo Cars and its parent company Geely Holdings will be investing €640m in their new electric vehicle brand Polestar. The investment will be used to establish a manufacturing facility in Chengdu, China which is ...
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Food testing services provider Eurofins Scientific has acquired Institut Nehring, a food testing laboratory in the German market. Institut Nehring was established in 1905; today the company is well-known in the German market thanks to its ...
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Belgium-based Asahi Photoproducts said it will bring the future of flexo printing at this month’s Eurasia Packaging 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey. The company is expanding its regional distributor footprint at the show. Apart from ...
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German primary packaging solutions provider Gerresheimer is set to unveil new Gx ready-to-fill vials at CPhl Worldwide event in Frankfurt. The event will take place between 24 and 26 October. Customers will be provided with identically ...
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Clariant is set to showcase its advanced color ranges at this year’s Western Coatings Show in Las Vegas, US. The event is being held between 15 and 18 October. At the event, the company will exhibit two complete color ranges of ...
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GlobalFoundries of Santa Clara, CA, USA (one of the world’s largest semiconductor foundries, with more than 250 customers and operations in Singapore, Germany and the USA) has announced its vision and roadmap for a range of technology ...
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US-based NutraFuels (NTFU) has installed a high speed filling and packaging equipment at its manufacturing facility to produce dietary supplement nutritional products. The firm will commission the new filling and sealing machine at its ...
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Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK has exhibited its new Epsilon machine at this year’s PPMA show in Birmingham, UK. Epsilon is a new mid-range multihead weighing machine specifically developed for the cost-effective weighing and packaging ...
Chocolate and confectionery giant Ferrero’s Canada unit will be financially supported by the Ontario government in its C$90m ($72.31m) expansion project that is aimed at boosting productivity of an existing plant. The provincial ...