Automotive supplier Continental has increased production of the transmission control units (TCU) at its Tianjin Plant in China. Launched in Changchun in 1998, TCU production expanded significantly in 2008 with the opening of a new plant ...
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UK-based recycling company Viridor has commenced the construction of new £12.5m plastics recycling facility (PRF) in Rochester. Stadler UK, which has designed the plant, is responsibile for delivering the project. The new PRF has ...
German auto-parts maker Bosch Engineering has opened a second automotive technology manufacturing plant in Cluj, Romania with investment of more than €70m. The auto-parts maker's new facility will produce electronic components and ...
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Finland-based Valmet will supply two pulp drying lines to Klabin's new plant in Ortigueira in Paraná, Brazil, as part of a supply contract. According to Valmet, the pulp dryer investment is part of Klabin's Puma project, and a ...
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Datsun, a Japanese subsidiary of the car manufacturer Nissan, has launched its first car for the Indonesian market, the Datsun GO+ Panca. Built at Datsun's new plant at Purwakarta in West Java, the new GO+ is a five-door multi-purpose ...
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AkzoNobel inaugurated its new, highly efficient chlorine membrane electrolysis plant in the Rhein-Main area, Germany. The Frankfurt-based plant is the result of a major conversion and expansion project begun in 2011 and involving a ...
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BASF and SINOPEC will build a new world-scale production plant for Neopentylglycol (NPG) at their state-of-the-art Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co., Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China. The plant, with a total annual capacity of about ...
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The Board of Innovia Group is pleased to announce that Arle Capital (Arle) has acquired the Group from the Candover 2001 Fund, for an enterprise value of €498 million, with funds raised from a syndicate of new investors. This means ...
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David Beeby, chief executive officer of Innovia Group, made an announcement on April 28: "We are delighted that we will be partnering again with Arle who have worked closely alongside us since 2009. They share our vision for the future and ...
Indian steelmaker JSW Steel Limited has announced that it has commissioned the phase 1 of the cold roll mill No. 2 facility at Vijayanagar Works, Karnataka, consisting of a 2.3 million mt per year pickling line coupled with a tandem cold ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that the Chinese steelmaker Angang Steel Company (Angang) has ordered a continuous hot dip galvanizing line. The line will be installed in a new plant near the city of Guangzhou in the province of ...
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US-based pork product producer Indiana Packers is set to open new pork product production operations in the City of Frankfort, a move which will generate 25 jobs initially and 98 jobs by 2016. The company will buy and equip the existing ...
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Jaguar Land Rover has completed the installation of the UK's largest rooftop solar panel array at its new state-of-the art Engine Manufacturing Centre at i54 South Staffordshire. The new facility has been designed with sustainability ...
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Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is set to establish a new car producing plant in Tamil Nadu with investments of INR40bn ($662.96m). The new facility, which will represent the company's seventh automotive plant, is expected to ...
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Sri Lanka-based auto parts manufacturer Micro Car has opened a new motor car assembling plant in Polgahawela export processing zone. The new facility, which represents the company's first and only car assembling plant in the region, was ...
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