Mercedes-Benz Cars is extending its capacities for electric cars in Europe with an investment of about €500m to manufacture electric compact car at Hambach plant in France. The Hambach plant in France will produce a compact electric ...
Dutch brewing company Lowlander Beer has expanded its distribution footprint to Hong Kong, marking its entry into Asia. Amsterdam based botanical brewer Lowlander Beer sets sail to open-up the minds (and palates) of like-minded explorers ...
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Personal care giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) has announced new sustainability goals for 2030, which include 100% recyclable or reusable packaging. PG announced it has achieved many of its 2020 environmental sustainability goals, has plans ...
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OFD Foods, a supplier of freeze-dried food for the US Military, has started construction on a $25m, nearly 50,000ft2 facility in the Town of Henrietta, Monroe County in New York State. The facility, which will be operating by the end of ...
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Confectionery giant Mondelēz International has opened a new $90m biscuit manufacturing plant in Bahrain. The new 250,000m2 plant will manufacture the confectionery and snacking firm’s power brands that include Oreo cookies and ...
Volkswagen of America has announced full pricing of the all-new 2019 Jetta, which the company says raises the bar in the compact sedan class, with new technology features. Now based off the award-winning MQB platform, the 2019 Jetta ...
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Memjet and Canon have entered into a long-term, global agreement to cross-license their patents around key segments and applications. Terms of the agreement remain confidential. Memjet CEO Len Lauer said: "We are excited and pleased ...
Chinese multinational technology firm Baidu has secured first batch of licenses to carry out road tests for autonomous vehicles in Beijing. At the launch ceremony today, five cars powered by Apollo, the open autonomous driving platform by ...
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General Motors (GM) said that it will build production versions of its Cruise AV fully-autonomous vehicle at its Orion Township assembly facility in Michigan, US, The company will assemble roof modules for its self-driving vehicles at its ...
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Aston Martin has unveiled Lagonda Vision Concept, the first luxury brand exclusively driven by zero emission powertrain technologies. Production is planned to start in 2021. Lagonda aims to be the world’s first zero emission ...
Canada-based TC Transcontinental has acquired US flexible packaging supplier Multifilm Packaging for an undisclosed sum. Based in Elgin of Illinois, Multifilm provides flexible packaging solutions for the food, beverage, and confectionery ...
The UK’s Public Health England (PHE) has asked the food industry to cut down calories in their products by 20% by 2024, in a move to implement the government’s strategy to tackle childhood and adult obesity. According to the ...
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Toyota, Denso Corp and Aisin Seiki said that they will establish a new company in Tokyo, Japan to provide fully-integrated, production-quality software for automated driving. The new company, dubbed Toyota Research Institute-Advanced ...
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J.M. Smucker’s proposed $285m purchase of Conagra Brands’ Wesson cooking oil brand has hit a roadblock with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accusing the deal will reduce competition in the country for canola and vegetable ...
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Fonterra Ventures has partnered with German active nutrition start-up foodspring via an investment in its parent firm, Goodminton. The new partnership will enable Fonterra to tap into the rapidly growing active nutrition consumer segment, ...
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