British-Dutch multinational company Unilever has completed the sale of its global Skippy business to Hormel Foods, excluding its operations in China where the transaction is pending regulatory approvals. The pending transaction is ...
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LAS VEGAS - Full line furniture importer New Classic Home Furnishings is offering a new a mixable container program that will allow goods to be shipped direct from its China manufacturing facilities within two weeks of an order. The ...
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Japanese carmaker Mazda is planning to invest about JPY26bn ($285.5m) to build a new automatic transmission manufacturing plant in the Chonburi Province of Thailand. The new Mazda Powertrain Manufacturing (Thailand) (MPMT) facility, with ...
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In China, the non-standard special material equipment industry is an emerging industry derived from the fast development of new material industry and advanced equipment manufacturing, particularly encouraged by the government. In recent ...
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The LED consists of (1) a blue LED chip made on a β-type Ga2O3 substrate by using GaN-based semiconductor and (2) a fluorescent material. Compared with a case where a common blue LED chip formed on a sapphire substrate is used, the new ...
Gildan Activewear Inc., Montreal, has finalized the acquisition of CanAm Yarns LLC — its 50-percent-owned yarn-spinning joint venture with Frontier Spinning Mills Inc., Sanford, N.C. — and is investing approximately $85 million ...
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California-based LED lighting manufacturer Bivar Inc and UK-based Marl International have formed an international opto-electronics partnership with manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe and Asia and a portfolio of approximately ...
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Ace Hardware has made the Ace brand paints that line its store shelves since 1984. But it's Ace's new brand, Clark+Kensington, that tops Consumer Reports' latest Ratings of two finishes, semi-gloss and low luster satin and eggshell. For ...
MORGAN HILL, CA (BRAIN) — Specialized is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall about 12,200 bikes due to faulty carbon forks. Models affected are the 2012 and 2013 Tarmac SL4, 2013 Crux and 2013 Secteur Disc ...
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Limited Brands, owner of iconic underwear labels Victoria’s Secret and La Senza, committed to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout its global supply chain and across all of its brands and products by 2020, in ...
LAS VEGAS --- Full line furniture importer New Classic Home Furnishings says it will offer a mixable container program that will allow goods to be shipped direct from its China manufacturing facilities within two weeks of an order. The ...
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Bunge has appointed Karl Gerrand as MD of its Canadian operations. Gerrand comes to Bunge from Viterra and replaces retiring country head Rick Watson. "During his 38-year career, Rick has helped Canada's oilseed industry grow from a ...
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Many companies who manufacture electronics require contingency plans for their products. If a memory device is discontinued, we switch to a competing device. If our circuit board supplier goes bankrupt, we have an alternate vendor on speed ...
US automaker General Motors (GM) is planning to invest about $1.6bn in its North American manufacturing facilities during 2013, in a bid to unveil about 20 new models in the US during the year. Being invested as part of $8bn annual ...
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US-based manufacturer and marketer of plastics packaging products Berry Plastics is all set to invest about $33m in a bid to expand and equip its Evansville production facility. Berry Plastics chairman and chief executive officer Jon Rich ...
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