China will come out with a five-year plan (2016-20) for the development of its strategic emerging industries and to further boost its innovation efforts, the nation's top economic planner said on Friday. The National Development and ...
Tags: Emerging Industries, Economy
A new fund that focuses on developing China's next generation of industry - so-called Industry 4.0 - through investment in German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will soon have its initial $1 billion raised, its founder says. ...
The long-term consequences of China's coming stockmarket correction are the ones to fear IF YOU were a Chinese worker you could have spent the past year toiling to earn a living. Or you could have bought some shares and sat on the sofa ...
Tags: Share Prices, Economy, Stockmarket
Cosmo Films has a growing interest in the Australian market, and its range of specialty films with barrier properties shows it has much to offer. Barrier properties are increasingly important for packaged food products, and Cosmo Films ...
NXP Semiconductors N.V. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands has agreed to sell its RF Power business for $1.8bn to Jianguang Asset Management Co Ltd (JAC Capital, a subsidiary of China state-owned investment company JIC Capital). NXP's RF Power ...
Tags: RF Power Business, JAC
Specialty chemicals and sustainable technologies company Johnson Matthey has acquired StePac Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) business from DS Smith for £18m. The transaction encompasses all assets of StePac, including Xtend ...
Firm will be launching a range of plush, figures and playsets. BOTI Global, a Hong Kong based multi-category toy company, has acquired the global rights to manufacture toys for pre-school property Miffy. 2015 marks Miffy’s 60th ...
Tags: Toy Rights, Miffy
Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory (WCB), a subsidiary of dairy giant Saputo, has completed the previously announced acquisition of Lion Dairy & Drinks' (LDD) everyday cheese business (EDC Business) for A$137.5m ($107.3m). The ...
Philip Morris International (PMI) and British American Tobacco have sued the UK Government over plain packaging regulations for cigarettes. In their lawsuits filed in the English High Court, the twocompanies claim that the new ...
Tags: Plain Packaging, Tobacco Packaging
Tobacco companies are reportedly launching a major legal assault against the UK government’s standardised packaging legislation According to the Daily Telegraph, the move could be one of the biggest ever legal claims ...
Tags: Tobacco Firms, Plain Packs
Although the Chinese government has pledged to use internet technology to upgrade manufacturing industry, there is a huge gap between the desire of the authorities and reality in the textile industry, the China Daily said a quoting a report ...
Tags: Textiles Sector, textile industry
Seaboard Foods and Triumph Foods have formed a joint venture to construct a new pork processing facility in Sioux City, Iowa. The site work is expected to begin this summer and construction wil be completed by July 2017. The plant is ...
Tags: Seaboard Foods, Triumph Foods
Paper and packaging company Georgia-Pacific will close its manufacturing plant at Parchment in Michigan by the end of this year. Terming it as a strategic decision, the company said it will move the plant's food and other wrapping ...
Tags: Georgia-Pacific, Paper packaging
NatureWorks said it has unveiled a new initiative to support the growth of the additive manufacturing market and its move to support the 3D market comprehensively, is based on a three pronged approach. “It includes the introduction ...
Tags: 3D printing, additive market
Northern winters are rough on concrete. Driveways, floors, paths … for months on end, any outdoor concrete surface on your property has been exposed to continual freeze-thaw cycles and possibly salt or other chemical snowmelt ...
Tags: Concrete Driveway, Floor