The firm has announced its strongest UK profits yet, as well as the appointment of a new national account manager. Schleich UK has reported its strongest ever earnings in Q1 for 2017. Following a record breaking 2016, the company has had ...
Kohlberg & Company, a leading private equity firm specializing in middle-market investing, has announced that it has closed the acquisition of Pexco and successfully merged the business with PPC Industries, Inc. (“PPC”), a ...
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Toray Plastics (America) has introduced new polyester films, which can be used in gamma irradiation sterilization packaging applications. The firm’s new medical packaging films include Lumirror GA10, GA25 and GA66 PET films, which ...
Flowers Foods has announced an improved organizational structure aimed to provide greater focus on the company strategic objectives under Project Centennial, stress brand growth and innovation in line with a national branded food company, ...
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Tyson Foods has agreed to buy Ohio-based sandwich producer AdvancePierre Foods for about $3.2bn. The acquisition will expand Tyson Foods' portfolio of prepared foods and protein-packed brands. A subsidiary of Tyson Foods will offer to ...
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The LED lighting market grew 18.1% to $47,303m in 2016, accounting for almost 60% of global lighting, according to the report ‘Global LED Lighting Market (2017 Update)’, part of Frost & Sullivan’s Homes & Buildings Growth ...
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Global LED lamp unit shipments are expected to increase from 441.7 million in 2017 to 783.9 million in 2026, forecasts the report ‘Market Data: Energy Efficient Lighting for Commercial Markets’ from Navigant Research. ...
colordruck Baiersbronn has selected Heidelberg as its digital printing technology partner and became pilot customer for Primefire 106 solution. With the new packaging solution, colordruck plans to offer its European customers with ...
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Huawei has released its new Small Cell development strategy for 2017, aiming to accelerate the development of the indoor mobile broadband (MBB) market and help telecom operators seize new business opportunities by enabling Gbps-level user ...
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The Renault-Nissan alliance has established a new global light commercial vehicle division in order to increase sales. The division, which will be known as the Renault-Nissan LCV Business Unit, will draw on synergies from Renault, Nissan, ...
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Ajinomoto has agreed to invest $15m in Israeli plant-based protein company Hinoman. Ajinomoto has also agreed to acquire the exclusive sales rights in Japan for Mankai, Hinoman Ltd.’s high-protein plant material with extraordinary ...
Las Vegas Market hosted their fourth annual match-making and networking event, Hospitality Link from March 7 to 9. It gives an opportunity to designers, specifiers and purchasing firms to connect with hospitality industry suppliers. ...
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Worldwide robot makers have been expanding their capacity recently with Germany-based Kuka cooperating with the China-based Midea Group to expand its capacity in Europe and China. Meanwhile, Japan-based Yaskawa has also increased investment ...
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After the third quarter of the 2016/2017 financial year, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen is still on course to increase its annual profit as planned. For example, during the third quarter (October 1 to December 31, 2016), the operating result ...
Glatfelter announced the promotion of David Dickerhoof to vice president of sales and marketing for specialty papers, effective immediately. Mr. Dickerhoof fills the position previously held by Mr. Timothy Hess who was promoted to Senior ...
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