Smurfit Kappa has further invested in its Facture paper mill to meet the growing demand for kraftliner grades in Europe. An upgrade of the mill, which is in South West France, was successfully completed in March following a three-week ...
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Confectionery giant Mondelēz International has opened a new $90m biscuit manufacturing plant in Bahrain. The new 250,000m2 plant will manufacture the confectionery and snacking firm’s power brands that include Oreo cookies and ...
BOBST has launched the new 20SEVEN CI flexo press to deliver Extended Color Gamut (ECG) solutions for a variety of printing technologies and applications. BOBST Business Unit Web-fed strategic products marketing director Federico ...
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Bosch Sprang, a subsidiary of Kiefel, has unveiled a new patent pending thermoforming tooling system to produce coffee cups. The coffee cups produced by the system can be recycled in water separation systems, as they will have material ...
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US-based Twin Rivers Paper has signed an agreement to acquire Mondi Group’s paper mill in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Terms of the deal, which is expected to be completed in the second quarter of this year, have not been disclosed. Pine ...
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Australia’s competition regulator has approved the CAD1.29bn ($1.01bn) acquisition of Murray Goulburn Co-Operative (MG) by Canadian dairy producer Saputo. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) said that it will not ...
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Groupe PSA is investing in Luton facility in the UK to manufacture a new Opel/Vauxhall Vivaro by 2019. The company said the success of its light commercial vehicle strategy needs further manufacturing capacity and the investment in Luton ...
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Mercedes-Benz has begun the production of new compact SUV GLA at its Sindelfingen plant in Germany Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant Site Manager Michael Bauer and Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen Works Council Chairman Ergun Lümali at the ...
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Global meat processing company Danish Crown’s subsidiary DAT-Schaub has purchased a majority stake in Shanghai Natural Casing for an undisclosed price to expand its operations in China. The purpose of the acquisition is to gain ...
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Haigh's Chocolates has opened its new multimillion dollar chocolate processing plant in Adelaide, South Australia. The state-of-the-art chocolate processing plant located in the suburb of Mile End will have the capacity to produce up to ...
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Kiefel's daughter company Mould & Matic plans to present Blowliner, the single-stage injection-stretch blow-molding machine, at the NPE 2018 event to held from 7-11 May in Orlando, US. Bernhard Hornhuber, sales manager for blow molding ...
South Africa-based labeling firm Advanced Labels has purchased and installed a new Nilpeter FA flexo press to expand its capacity to serve the self-adhesive labeling market. The investment in the Nilpeter’s FA flexo press also ...
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While conventional LEDs are used for backlighting, micro-LED and mini-LED technology has been used for self-emitting in displays of consumer electronics. Since each LED represents a pixel (increasing the number of LED wafers used), wafers ...
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ExxonMobil said that it will make a final investment decision later this year on a potential polypropylene production expansion along the US Gulf Coast. The company started detailed engineering work on a potential US Gulf Coast project to ...
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Flexible packaging solutions provider Scholle IPN has introduced what it claims to be the world’s first pre-made, sterilized spouted pouch system for aseptically-processed products. The CleanPouch Aseptic System features a new ...