Green packaging maker Cascades is to invest in the expansion of two of its packaging plants in Quebec, Canada. The company plans to invest around $4.5m in its Plastiques Cascades plant in Kingsey Falls and its Cascades Inopak plant in ...
Tags: Green packaging, Food Packaging, fresh food
Rebar prices kept unchanged in Mexico through October, although producers continue to be assertive about hiking prices, sources in the domestic market said. Reported offers, bids and deals led Platts to maintain its Mexican domestic rebar ...
Tags: Rebar prices, Stay Flat, sluggish demand
Xcel Energy is confident it can cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2030 from 2005 levels at a negligible cost to customers, mainly by building two new natural gas plants, adding more than 2,000 MW of renewables and keeping its nuclear plants ...
Tags: Xcel Energy, Carbon Emissions, natural gas
For third-quarter 2015, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $140.7m, up 51% on $93.3m a year ago although up only 7% on $131.4m last quarter (which was the ...
Tags: LED market, LCD TVs
Diageo’s Indian unit United Spirits is planning to cut down around 150 of its brands to focus on better performing brands and strengthen its business in a market that is seemingly dominated by local, cheaper brands. The British ...
The Government of Punjab, a northern state of India, has received 55 investment proposals worth Rs 80bn ($1.22bn) for the establishment of food processing units. Among the interested parties, food conglomerate ITC and Poland's offers ...
As China's Internet giants rewrite the rules of the game for the traditional film industry, a new big player backed by the world's largest game company recently tapped into the booming market. Tencent Pictures, a subsidiary of Tencent ...
Tags: film industry, Tencent, Online
The Phantom of the Opera, a hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, staged its first show in Guangzhou city in Guangdong province on Sept 22. The southern Chinese city is the second location on the mainland, after Shanghai, to host the show ...
Tags: Phantom, musicals, commercial value
US-based food and beverage company PepsiCo is opening its first Quaker Oats factory in China with an investment of CHF200m ($31.25m), in order to expand its nutritional offerings in the Asian country, as carbonated drinks business continues ...
Tags: Quaker Oats, PepsiCo
Grammer has signed a contract for the acquisition of the Reum Group, a provider of surface, plastics and metal technology. Reum is specialized in developing and manufacturing high-quality, design-oriented metal and plastic combinations, ...
US-based food company General Mills has embarked on a new journey with the launch of its 301 Inc., a new business venture unit that will focus on building partnerships with emerging food brands to come up with groundbreaking innovation in ...
Pharmaceutical and biologics company AstraZeneca has unveiled a new $224m worth production and packaging plant in Kaluga, Russia. The investment is said to be the largest foreign investment in the construction of a new pharmaceutical ...
Tags: Astrazeneca, Packaging, medicines
Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng met with Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade of Uzbekistan Elyor Ganiev who was invited to participate in the Fourth Sub-Committee Meeting of the Economic and Trade ...
Tags: China-Uzbekistan strategic partnership, cotton, natural gas
Based on a report released by the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, the total powder coatings output of the top 30 producers in China is 441.5 thousand tons in 2014, which is less than one third of total powder coatings ...
Tags: Powder Coatings, Coatings
Following installation of new production lines and preparatory work for a new Research and Development lab, the Rescaldina-based company - specialized in the manufacture of predispersed pigment preparations (Chips) - decided to move its ...