API Group has invested more than $8.5m in a North American Center of Excellence in Lawrence, Kansas. The project will consolidate API’s decorative holographic and foil manufacturing on the existing site, with the addition of new ...
B&G Products, a UK-based manufacturer of re-usable bags and pouches, has invested in one more stand up pouch conversation machine. The company is also remodeling its food-standard factory to increase output. B&G Products is also ...
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Japanese firms Toppan Printing and Itochu have partnered with Thung Hua Sinn Printing Network (TPN Group) to enter into Thailand flexible packaging business. Based in Bangpakong Chachoengsao of Thailand, the TPN Group runs an integrated ...
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Because of rising demand for cloud computing, shipments of server and rack products have increased, and revenues at Taiwan's server motherboard, storage and network equipment players grew 4.8% on year to reach around NT$559 billion ...
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Mars has announced plans to reinvest $70m in its US supply chain, with the creation of around 250 jobs at sites across the country. The company said the move will ensure that over 95% of its chocolate products for the US are made here. ...
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It’s becoming more and more apparent that Apple is dead set on winning a Netflix-sized place in our living rooms. The word from Recode is that Apple has approached three networks – HBO, Showtime and Starz – with a view ...
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WitsView, a division of the market intelligence firm TrendForce, estimates that worldwide shipments of LCD TV panels for 2017 will total 255.6 million units, down 1.8% in unit volume from 2016. This year’s increase in the average size ...
Domino's is ready to let its driverless delivery vehicles loose in Europe for the very first time. The six-wheeled vehicles, which resemble something you’d expect to see Nasa landing on the moon, are being debuted by Domino’s ...
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Atlas Tissue is pleased to introduce the Green Heritage line of recycled tissue products to the at-home market. Atlas Tissue, a business of Resolute Forest Products, is changing the way consumers view recycled products with its Green ...
Pac Machinery has installed new bag-making capital equipment at its Converting Technology division in Milwaukee, US. The installation is a part of the company’s effort to support growing demand for custom pre-opened bags on a roll ...
Edison Solutions is exhibiting Packsize International’s EM7-35 on demand packaging system at this year’s Global Shop event in Las Vegas, US. The event is being held from 28 to 30 March. Packsize has developed the custom ...
New Zealand exporters will soon be allowed to send chilled meat to China under a new agreement signed by the two countries. Significant revenues are expected to be made by the New Zealand meat sector following a Memorandum of Cooperation ...
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China has strong demand for robots, but locally produced robots took up only 26.7% of its demand in 2015. Too meet the demand, China firms have geared up development of robots with government incentives in recent years and the use of robots ...
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Germany-based inspection technology provider, Erhardt+Leimer (E+L) has appointed Rotocon as the local agent in South Africa. Under the partnership, two E+L Smartscan systems have already been installed at Spec Systems’ new RCSI 330 ...
UAE-based Amira Nature Foods has acquired a portfolio of packaged specialty rice brands from Euro Basmati in Germany for an undisclosed price. The acquired brands include Al Amir, Al Hakim, Bano, Dalia, Hanna and Shah Pari which have ...
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