US-based metal packaging products supplier Crown Holdings has designed new beverage can for Guinness Foreign Extra Stout Singapore edition. Crown has developed limited edition packaging for Foreign Extra Stout to mark the company’s ...
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Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles is the leading home textiles fair in Asia. The fair is jointly hosted by Messe Frankfurt, The Sub-Council of Textile Industry, CCPIT and China HomeTextile Association. Industry professionals attend this ...
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An increase in eastbound long-haul grain and petcoke cargoes from the US Gulf Coast has triggered a rebound in Handysize and Supramax freight rates in this key loading area this week. Also, inquiries in the region remains spearheaded by ...
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Lenovo has posted second-quarter consolidated revenues of US$10.1 billion, decreasing 6% on year, gross margin 15.3%, operating profit US$281 million, up 97%, and net profit US$173 million, up 64%, according to the company. Lenovo shipped ...
For first-half 2016, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €55.5m, down 31% on first-half 2015's €80.7m, reflecting the ongoing weak demand environment in the firm's ...
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Under the creative direction of Tom Dixon, Design Research Studio (DRS) has created the interiors for ALTO, a new contemporary grill in Hong Kong. ALTO is Design Research Studio’s first restaurant project in Asia. DRS has called ...
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EpiGaN nv of Hasselt, near Antwerp, Belgium, which supplies commercial-grade 150mm- and 200mm-diameter gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) epitaxial wafers for 600V high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) power semiconductors, has been ...
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Anokiwave Inc of San Diego, CA, USA, which provides highly integrated silicon core chips and III-V front-end integrated circuits for millimeter-wave (mmW) markets and active electronically scanned array (AESA)-based terminals, has added to ...
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UK based manufacturer of coding, marking and labeling equipment Domino Printing Sciences has broken ground on a new factory in Changshu, China aimed to increase business opportunities across the Asia Pacific region. The new factory, named ...
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Friedrichshafen. ZF Friedrichshafen AG has continued its good business development in the first half of 2016. In the first six months of 2016, sales increased to €17.8 billion and the adjusted operating profit (EBIT) rose to €1.1 ...
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Carlsberg Group has signed an agreement to sell 59% of its share in Carlsberg Malawi Limited to Castel Group. The registration of the transaction is pending certain regulatory and corporate approvals. The transaction is in line with ...
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Briefs for UN Security Council highlight how millions of people remain trapped in a vicious cycle of violence and hunger Joint FAO-WFP news release 29 July 2016, Rome - Protracted conflicts affecting 17 countries have driven millions ...
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The overall drop after five months of growth reflects a slide in prices for grains and vegetable oils 4 August 2016, Rome – The international prices for major food commodities saw a modest decline in July, following five ...
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Ball reported second quarter 2016 net earnings attributable to the corporation of $369m, or $2.54 per diluted share on sales of $2bn, compared to $160m of net earnings attributable to the corporation, or $1.13 per diluted share, on sales of ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2016 (to 2 July, a 14 week quarter), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $125.2m, up 24% on $101.1m last ...
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