Dignitaries at the official opening of stage one of Kraft Foods Asia Pacific Confectionery Centre of Excellence at Kraft’s manufacturing site in Ringwood. Multinational food company Kraft Foods has opened stage one of its Asia ...
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Huawei last week opened its first Middle East IT Competence Centre in Bahrain, as part of its effort to support the development of the country’s IT and telecoms industry. The centre will help to develop the high-level IT skills of ...
German carmaker Mercedes-Benz is planning to manufacture a new sport utility vehicle (SUV) model at its Alabama manufacturing plant in the US. To be produced as part of the carmaker's plan to launch 13 new models through 2020, the project ...
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Corrugated group Rigid Containers has revealed multi-million pound plans to open a third UK site this April The facility, in Wellington, Somerset, will initially open as a distribution centre but will, over the course of the year, be ...
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US manufacturing activity continues to grow steadily, buoyed by an increase in new orders and blue collar employment. The Institute for Supply Management index of manufacturing activity rose to 53.1 in January from 50.2 in December. ...
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DuPont packaging awards deadline looming The deadline to enter DuPont's 25th Awards for Packaging Innovation is just a few weeks away, on Feb. 28. Winners will be selected by a jury based on excellence in one or more of these areas: ...
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Vietnam apparel and textile sector is set to add 200,000 new jobs in the country since the industry expects an export growth of 12 percent this year. The Vietnamese clothing industry is targeting a turnover of US$ 19 billion this year ...
LANXESS is expanding its global production network for inorganic pigments in China. A new high-tech facility for premium iron oxide red pigments is being constructed at the Ningbo Chemical Park on the Chinese East Coast. The plant, with ...
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UK-based Delta Packaging has announced that it will install Speedmaster XL 106-6LYYL press at Belfast retail packaging plant by the end of January 2013. The new six-color press with double coating units is the company's fourth B1 litho ...
Tempe, Ariz.-based action sports brand hotmix is helping bring manufacturing back to the U.S. by launching the 4x4x4 Project on crowd funding site Kickstarter. The project revolves around creating four new products with four artists in four ...
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H & M declares its full year and fourth quarter results. Full-year - The H&M Group’s sales including VAT increased in local currencies by 11 percent during the financial year. Sales in comparable units increased by 1 percent. ...
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Geosynthetics producer Agru America Inc., Georgetown, S.C., is investing $39.1 million to expand its operations in Georgetown, S.C., and Andrews, S.C., and add 126 jobs. The company will expand its Georgetown plant by 40,000 square ...
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Arla Foods Ingredients is investing 102M in a new lactose manufacturing facility in Denmark that will have "a major impact on the supply of lactose to the UK food industry". Arla's new lactose plant in Denmark will have a major impact on ...
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The government's new Green Deal, which gives people the opportunity to make energy-saving home improvements with these then paid on their bills, has been launched today (January 28th). This is the coalition's new initiative aimed at ...
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Cape Breton is now “well-positioned to be a leader” in biomass energy with the announcement today that the Harbourside biomass plant in Sydney is proceeding to the next phase in the Community Feed-in Tariff program (COMFIT). ...
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