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 ...
The Japanese economy seems unable to return to a sustainable growth path. In Q4, GDP fell 1.4% over the previous quarter in seasonally adjusted annualized terms (SAAR), which contrasted Q3’s 1.3% rise. In 2015, Japan’s imports ...
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In 2015, Australia’s imports & exports volume was USD 388.59 billion, down 16.9% by year according to Australian Bureau of Statistics. The exports volume was USD 188.41 billion, down 21.5% and imports volume was USD 200.18 billion, ...
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Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully developed an environmentally-friendly food packaging material that is free from chemical additives, by fortifying natural chitosan-based composite film with ...
Tags: Eco-Friendly Food, Food Packaging
Crown, a leading supplier of metal packaging products worldwide, has published its third Sustainability Report. Titled 'Perpetual Progress,' the 2015 report documents Crown's continued advancement in the economic, environmental and social ...
Engineering machinery industry encounters its "winter" and the market is sluggish as the effect of the whole economic circumstance and the downward of the whole market. Sinotruk HOWO light-duty aerial platform truck can meet the demand of ...
Tags: Light-Duty Truck, Truck
China import and export commodities fair (hereinafter referred to as "China") is China's largest, most merchants, the most widely radiating surface, one of the highest volume of regional international economic and trade event. By ...
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The Australian Federal Government's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) is allowing China's Moon Lake Investments to acquire Australia's largest dairy producer, Van Diemen's Land Company (VDL). The purchase price is AUD$280 million for ...
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 ...
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Chinese central authorities on Sunday issued a document to set the basic principles, key tasks and targets for future urban development and management, aiming to make China's sprawling cities more livable, efficient and green. The ...
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With the soybean harvest getting under way in Brazil, analysts are getting a clearer picture of whether the forecast record-setting crop will hit the century mark of 100 million tonnes despite hot and dry weather in Mato Grosso and ...
Packaging solutions provider Multivac has unveiled plans to expand its manufacturing operations in Kansas City, Missouri, US. The company will invest around $6.9m to expand its US headquarters in Kansas City, which is expected to create ...
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In its report 'Global Packaged Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED Market 2016-2020' – which forecasts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 5% – market research firm Technavio has profiled the top four leading vendors (Cree ...
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Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has explored the 2016 outlook for the global shipping industry and believes that global shipping companies, and drybulk and containership operators in particular, will continue to face difficult ...
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Canada-based organic food company SunOpta has entered into an agreement to sell Opta Minerals business to Speyside Equity Fund for CAD$6.2m ($4.4m), in order to focus on its core business of food distribution. The acquisition proposal has ...
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