Spanish Ebro Foods has acquired a controlling stake in flour producer and retailer Santa Rita Harinas for €4.8m ($5.34m). In a statement to Spain’s National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), Ebro said that it has bought 52% ...
Tags: Ebro Foods, Santa Rita
Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Wolfspeed Power & RF division of Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA for $850m in cash (about €740m). The deal also includes the related silicon ...
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has reported a 23% rise in revenue from €5.7m in first-half 2015 to €7m in first-half 2016, ...
Tags: Riber MBE, molecular beam epitaxy
Spain based plastics technology center, Aimplas has coordinated to develop a new biodegradable packaging for cheese and pasta to ensure preservation while lowering cost and environmental impact. Developed within the framework of the ...
Tags: Packaging, Fresh Pasta
Finland-based food company Raisio has signed an agreement to sell UK snack bar business, Halo Foods, to Dutch investor Nimbus. Halo Foods, a manufacturer of its partners’ branded products, became part of Raisio through the Glisten ...
South African paper and packaging company Mondi Group has agreed to acquire ZAO Uralplastic-N (Uralplastic). The deal has been signed with Joint Stock Company Rusnano and a private investor to acquire Uralplastic, for undisclosed amount. ...
Tags: Consumer Packaging, Packaging
The pan-European REFERENCE research project - created to leverage disruptive radio-frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) technology in developing industrial solutions for the performance, cost and integration needs of RF front-end modules ...
Tags: RF-SOI, ECSEL, 4G+communications
Volkswagen has taken a major step towards increased environmental sustainability of production at its facilities around the world. At present vehicles and components are now manufactured in a way which is 25 percent more environmentally ...
German automaker Porsche has opened a new 8 cylinder engine manufacturing plant at the main site in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. About €80m has been invested in the plant, which has a capacity to produce 200 engines per day. The new ...
Swedish contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Recipharm plans to invest €18m to boost its blow fill seal (BFS) capacity at its site in Kaysersberg, France. As part of the investment plan, a new blow fill seal ...
Greiner Packaging has announced the launch of the new coextrusion barrier foil facility at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria. Co-financed by Greiner Packaging, the coextrusion barrier foil facility has been launched as ...
Rochling Group is investing €35m in its Neuhaus am Rennweg plant, creating 70 new jobs. This will enable a significant expansion in the production capacities of Rochling-HPT Hochwertige Pharmatechnik GmbH & Co. KG, giving a ...
Tags: diagnostic industry, GMP class, C clean room
UK’s fresh prepared foods manufacturer Bakkavor Group has agreed to sell its Belgian fresh prepared food business, Vaco, to Culinor Food Group for undisclosed sum. The sale is part of Bakkavor's restructuring strategy to focus on ...
Tags: Bakkavor, fresh prepared foods
IHS Automotive forecasts that the UK's vote to leave the European Union could cost automakers about 2.8 million light-vehicle sales through 2018. The research firm expects global deliveries to rise to 89.82 million this year, or about ...
EpiGaN nv of Hasselt, near Antwerp, Belgium, which supplies commercial-grade 150mm- and 200mm-diameter gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) epitaxial wafers, says that on 7 June it received official notification from the International ...