When the 13th-century Italian merchant and traveler Marco Polo finished his famous book The Travels of Marco Polo, he couldn’t have imagined that seven centuries later his adventures in China would be adapted into a seven-hour film. ...
Tags: film, China's film industry, co-production
Chinese influence in Britain is notable from the late 17th century onwards as wealthy Britons and a growing middle class provided a demand for Chinese goods such as porcelain and commodities such as tea. Chinese culture travelled to ...
Tags: Chinese Culture, porcelain, commodities, tea
A screen capture from film The Little Prince. One of the most translated novellas globally, The Little Prince has reportedly found its way into 253 languages and dialects, selling as many as 200 million copies, but has rarely been made ...
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Emerging Chinese director Song Pengfei could hardly believe that his first try at film directing would turn out to be an immediate success. At Friday night, amid applause and enthusiasm, Song, director of a movie entitled Underground ...
Tags: Chinese films, Chicago Film Fest
Constantia Flexibles has opened a new research and development (R&D) center for polymer films and film laminates for flexible packaging in Germany. The move is in line with the company's multi-million investment for upgrading equipment ...
UPM Raflatac’s new VANISH range of ultra-thin, clear PET films are a good choice for companies looking to maximise brand representation and boost quality and performance to new levels. In the beverage segment, VANISH labels offer an ...
Tags: clear PET films, labels, food packaging
Avery Dennison has introduced two bio-based polyethylene (PE) films for label applications at LabelExpo Europe this year. The launch is in line with Avery Dennison's efforts to achieve sustainability goals by 2025. The new labels films ...
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“Audi will present an all-electric, luxury-class sport SUV in early 2018. The Audi quattro concept provides a concrete foretaste of this,” says Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Audi Board of Management for Technical ...
Tags: Audi, e-tron Quattro Concept Car, Automotive OLED Displays
Huntsman Corporation has announced that its Polyurethanes Division recycled the equivalent of nearly 1 billion 500ml plastic bottles into its TEROL aromatic polyester polyols line in 2014. As part of Huntsman’s commitment to ...
Tags: Huntsman, PET, plastic bottles, polyols
For high temperature applications, Wipak has developed a plastic composite which offers ideal product protection. New: WALOX is a transparent alternative to compo-sites based on polyester, laminated with aluminium oxide (AlOx) or silicon ...
Tags: plastic composite, film, glass packages
Cosmo Films, a speciality manufacturer of BOPP Films, unveiled its range of barrier films at the recently concluded 4th Speciality Flexible Packaging Conference held in Mumbai, India. Mr Pankaj Poddar, CEO of the company also made a ...
British flexible films manufacturer Skymark is investing in a new Nordmecanica Super Simplex solvent-less laminator to increase capacity at its facility in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, the UK. When installed in November this year, the new ...
Tags: Skymark, flexible films, medical packaging, blown film
China's State Council Information Office (SCIO) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the U.S. National Geographic Society (NGS) and venture capital organization International Data Group (IDG) to promote the Chinese culture and ...
Toray Plastics has introduced new TreaTear LT Series of linear-tear, polyproypylene sealant films for consumer packaging goods and converters. The new sealant films offer low seal initiation temperature (SIT) and high heat-seal ...
Tags: Toray Plastics, packaging, BOPP, films
Innovia Films' NatureFlex flexible packaging film has been chosen by South African company KiddieKix to pack its cereals and dried fruit snacks. NatureFlex speciality packaging films are made from renewable resources such as wood-pulp ...
Tags: Innovia Films, flexible packaging, BOPP