US-based private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) has agreed to provide €100m debt and equity financing to sustainable packaging provider Petainer UK. The funding will be used by Petainer to finance its capital structure and ...
Tags: KKR, Petainer, Investment
VisIC Technologies Ltd of Nes Ziona, Israel, a fabless developer of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MISHEMTs) founded in 2010, has introduced a ...
Swedish car company Volvo announced that it will be testing its autonomous vehicles in China with local drivers and on public roads in every day driving conditions. For this experiment, Volvo will use 100 autonomous cars. In the ...
Tags: Volvo, Autonomous Cars, Chinese Roads
Navitas Semiconductor Inc of El Segundo, CA, USA has launched its first products, which are claimed to be the industry's first gallium nitride (GaN) power ICs. Navitas was founded in 2013, and in 2014 investment firm MalibuIQ licensed the ...
Tags: GaN, Power electronics
Automobile majors have reached an agreement to include automatic emergency braking in almost all the vehicles in the US by September 2022. The agreement by 20 auto majors has been announced by the US Department of Transportation's ...
The first ever review of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) will test whether consumer protections will suit the modern market place says Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chairman Rod Sims. Speaking today at the ...
Tags: ACL, ACCC, Consumer protection
The Operations & Maintenance group of First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, now has 5GW ...
Tags: First Solar, Thin-film photovoltaic, CdTe
The US Senate Agricultural Committee has passed a bill which paves the way for a single national labeling law for food made with genetically engineered ingredients, while doing away with state by state labeling. With this bill, which ...
Seal integrity is extremely important for preventing contamination or spoilage of a canned food product. Here is why proper canned food sealing is important and most effective method for evaluating seal integrity for canned food. Why Seal ...
Tags: Seal Integrity, Leak Tests
The Australian treasury has given its approval to the sale of the country's largest dairy farm Tasmanian Land Company (TLC) including Van Diemen's Land Company (VDL), to Chinese billionaire Lu Xianfeng's Australian arm Moon Lake Investments ...
Tags: VDL, Dairy Farm
Singapore food and beverage company Fraser and Neave has expressed interest in acquiring South Africa's SABMiller's Peroni and Grolsch beer brands in Europe. The expression of interest is occurring whilst beverage giant Anheuser-Busch ...
China will set up more cross-border e-commerce pilot zones, the State Council announced Wednesday. The zones will attract businesses, help create jobs and nurture new business models to boost foreign trade and stimulate the economy, ...
Economists and insiders are calling for more effective goverment supervision as a year of wild swings in China's stock market is coming to an end. China fought an unprecedented and costly war in 2015 to contain wide stock market ...
Chinese lawmakers on Sunday approved a State Council proposal for stock listing reform at the end of a bimonthly legislative session which began Monday in Beijing. The decision by the National People's Congress Standing Committee will ...
Tags: Stock Listing, Registration-based
Chinese lawmakers on Wednesday called on market regulators to step up supervision and stipulate heavier penalties for violators once a stock listing reform takes effect. Legislators are set to approve a State Council proposal on the ...
Tags: IPO Reform, Supervision