The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi automotive alliance has launched a venture capital fund to invest up to $1bn in the next five years. The new entity will act as main interface for start-ups, investors and the venture capital ecosystem to ...
Tags: automotive, Nissan
Plastics Recyclers Europe has introduced an updated version of Design for Recycling Guidelines. The amended guidelines differentiate between the coloured and non-coloured polyolefin packaging. In addition, the guidelines will soon be ...
Groupe Renault and Brilliance China Automotive have signed a joint venture (JV) contract to manufacture and sell light commercial vehicles (LCV) in China in three segments with three brands. The new JV, which will be known as ...
Tags: Renault, Light Commercial Vehicles
Held annually at Sands Expo in Las Vegas, the U.S., AAPEX (Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo) has ended another successful year and unveiled future trends of the continuously growing auto aftermarket and car servicing industries through ...
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Titan Hemp, a provider of hemp commodities and extracts, and Green Growers Technology Alliance (GGTA) have partnered to develop plant-based materials for a range of manufacturing applications including packaging. As part of this effort, ...
Tags: hemp commodities, packaging
Groupe Renault has debuted what it claims to be the world’s first in autonomous obstacle avoidance that matches professional test drivers. Renault Open Innovation Lab, which is based in Silicon Valley, developed the new feature for ...
Tags: Autonomous Cars, Renault
CapitalG, a growth investment fund under Alphabet has led $1bn round of investment in ride-hailing company Lyft. With this investment, Lyft’s valuation has gone up to $11bn. CapitalG’s partner David Lawee will be joining ...
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Three key global plastics recycling organizations, The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE), and the European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP), have created a coalition aimed at coordinating efforts on testing ...
Tags: plastics, PET Bottle
Konica Minolta has introduced new AccurioLabel 190 full-digital toner press for the customers in Europe. The new press has been developed in collaboration with Danish firm Grafisk Maskinfabrik (GM) to replace bizhub PRESS C71cf that was ...
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Fourteen organizations from the paper cup supply chain have signed a deal to boost PE lined paper cup recycling in the UK. The agreement has been signed with Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE UK), which runs the ...
Tags: Beverage Cartons, Paper Cup
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control – and Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) have ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Power Challenges
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 announced the availability of two ...
Tags: EPC, Wireless Power Demonstration
Automaker Ford Motor is targeting $10bn in incremental material cost reductions and lower engineering costs by $4bn from planned levels over the next five years. Ford’s newly appointed CEO and president Jim Hackett noted that the ...
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Pulse Roll Label Products has partnered with Edale, a UK-based manufacturer of high technology, narrow to mid web flexographic and hybrid digital printing presses and converting equipment. The strategic alliance sees British-based Pulse ...
Latest industry figures gathered by ACE, the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment, revealed that the European Union (EU) recycled 47% of all beverage cartons placed on the market, or about 430.000 tonnes, in 2016. The ...
Tags: Beverage Carton