When GE sold its home appliance division in September 2014 for US $3.3 billion to Swedish company Electrolux, market rumors surfaced that the company might sell its lighting business too. The company denied intentions of selling its century ...
Tags: GELED, lighting, business strategy, market trends
At the recent European Coatings Conference on Automotive Coatings on September 24 and 25 in Düsseldorf, Germany, Dr. Klemens Bartmann, Global Technology Director at Axalta Coating Systems, a leading manufacturer of liquid and powder ...
Tags: Coatings, Advanced Coating
The global protective packaging market was worth $22.25 billion in 2014 and is projected to reach $29.30 billion in 2020, according to a new report. Online shopping, rising income levels, and urbanisation are among the reasons cited for ...
Active lifestyle company Bern Unlimited (Bern) today announced the appointment of bike industry veteran Jeffrey Cavicchi to lead Bern’s U.S. sales efforts for the bike category. Cavicchi will oversee distribution strategy and the ...
H.B. Fuller has officially opened its Lüneburg Adhesive Academy in Germany, the company's newest technical centre of excellence, to help its customers respond more quickly and effectively to market trends, industry challenges and ...
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Henkel Adhesive Technologies, a solution provider for adhesives, sealants and functional coatings, has unveiled its “Lighting in 2025” report, with up-to-the-minute research on current and future trends in the lighting industry. ...
Tags: adhesives, sealants, functional coatings
The short-term outlook for biomaterials in coatings and related sectors in Europe has been looking grim in the wake of the fall in the oil price. However companies along the biomaterials value chain in the region are not overtly concerned. ...
Tags: biomaterials, coatings
“It is only a matter of time before white LEDs using blue LED chips will disappear from the market,” said Shuji Nakamura at a forum on GaN technology in July organized by Nikkei Asian Review. The comment from the inventor of ...
Tags: LED chip, Blue LED, Purple LEDs
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), and SPARX Group (SPARX Group) have signed a memorandum of understanding to consider the establishment of a new investment fund aiming to encourage innovation and ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, vehicle technology, intelligent technology
According to the latest cotton report of the Indian Cotton Federation (ICF), Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has managed to get a good response to their e-auctions recently. “Mills are buying for their near future requirements and ...
Tags: textile, cotton, cotton sowing
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that its board of directors has approved the following: a restructuring of the LED Products business; a $500m stock buyback authorization for fiscal 2016; and the ...
Tags: Cree LED, LED chip, ASP Erosion
This is China's most important gathering of ingredients suppliers, distributors and buyers for the food, health, and nutraceutical industries. Fi Asia-China is divided into three segments: food ingredients, health ingredients and ...
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US-based alcoholic beverage maker Constellation Brands is planning to expand its brewery and glass bottle production plant in Nava, Coahuila, Mexico, with an investment of approximately $2bn. The expansion will involve increasing ...
Lectra, a developer of integrated technology solutions for industries using soft materials like fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials, recently hosted a Lectra Fashion PLM event in France. According to a Lectra ...
Tags: Lectra, Fashion PLM Event, fabrics
Dow Coating Materials , a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, accelerates progress in paints and coatings through customer collaboration, understanding market trends, and research and development, including high through-put research, ...
Tags: Coating Materials, Construction, coatings