OLED panels and TFT-LCD panels took up 27% and 73% respectively of display panels used in smartphones in 2014, but the proportion for OLED panels will exceed 40% in 2017 due to Apple's adoption for new iPhone and further rise to 58% in ...
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RiceBran Technologies has signed an agreement with Alothon Group, its minority co-investor in Nutra, that terminated Alothon's roll-up rights, a process that would have let Alothon to exchange its equity position in Nutra for an equivalent ...
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Toyota is spending $1.33bn at its Kentucky manufacturing facility as part of its plan to invest $10bn in the US over the next five years. The move adds to the $530m invested in 2013 to support the production of Lexus. With the present ...
Russian meat and feed producer Cherkizovo has agreed to acquire domestic grain producer Napko for around RUB5bn ($88m). Cherkizovo will also assume the net debt of the grain producer which stood at RUB751m ($13m) as of 31 March 2017. ...
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In view of fast growing demand for LED automotive lighting in the China market, some Taiwan-based LED packaging service providers and LED automotive lighting module makers have been competing for orders there, according to industry sources. ...
Tags: LED packaging, LED devices
An international LED forum held in Taiwan in mid-June showed that makers have extended development and production from general lighting to IR (infrared), UV (ultraviolet) chips, and high-end automotive lighting, according to Digitimes ...
VPK Packaging is investing €20m to improve both the quality and capacity of the firm's corrugated packagin solutions, in response to growing customer demand. A brand new corrugator and an additional boxmaker were already brought into ...
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Switzerland based packaging firm Tetra Pak has launched two new portion size packages to meet the demands of the on-the-go beverage market. The new packages, the Tetra Prisma Aseptic 200 and 250 Edge with DreamCap 26, are designed to ...
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Daimler and Bosch are partnering to speed up the development of self-driving cars. The two companies have signed a development agreement to bring fully automated (SAE Level 4) and driverless (SAE Level 5) driving to urban roads by the ...
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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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Specialty chemicals maker Clariant is offering improved formulations of Cesa-extend masterbatches for restoring key material properties to recycled condensation polymers such as PET, PLA, and polycarbonate for high-value packaging ...
Portuguese tissue manufacturer Renova produced its first jumbo roll on the first Valmet Advantage NTT tissue line in Europe, in late january. The Renova 2 mill, near Torres Novas, Portugal, will utilize the flexibility of the hybrid ...
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Spanish containerboard and corrugated packaging manufacturer Europac Group has acquired packaging plant in the town of Lucena, in Cordoba, for €9.8m to boost its packaging operations. The firm acquired two companies that jointly own ...
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Global renewable energy generation capacity increased by 161 gigawatts (GW) in 2016, making the strongest year ever for new capacity additions, according to data released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Renewable ...
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