The Import Promotion Activity of Food and Consumer Goods, hosted by the Foreign Trade Development Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce, was held in Beijing on July 3-5. This is one of a series of the import promotion activities of the Foreign ...
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The world's first front end carrier without metal reinforcement has now leapt across the platforms: The Volkswagen Group is using the front end carrier made from the BASF plastic Ultramid in the new Passat and Sharan models – after ...
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Soft drink giants PepsiCo Inc and Coca-Cola Co are said to be holding separate talks to acquire minority interest in US-based yogurt maker Chobani. The move indicates that beverage companies are making efforts to diversify their business ...
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LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has introduced the third member of its Matrix Platform family of integrated LED products. The 24V constant-voltage LUXEON XF-3014 CV flexible LED strips distribute extremely uniform light across ...
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Canadian organic food company SunOpta has completed the acquisition of Sunrise Holdings from investor group led by Paine & Partners for $444m, as part of its strategy to expand its portfolio of frozen fruit and fruit ingredient processing ...
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US-based coating maker Axalta has strengthened its presence in India with construction of an automotive OEM coatings development laboratory at its operating center in Savli, Gujarat. The company did not disclose the exact amount it plans ...
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Illumitex Inc., LED innovator and maker of the world’s most optically advanced lighting products for horticulture, today announced it has signed a new customer, Green Life Productions (GLP). Based in Nevada, GLP is a pioneer in the ...
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The scale of China’s LED package market is projected to expand 16% year on year to RMB 61.4 billion in 2015, according to the latest Chinese LED Industry Market Report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. The growth of Chinese LED ...
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HC Semitek board approved the acquisition of Chinese sapphire substrate manufacturer Crystaland during a recent shareholder meeting. The acquisition deal signals the company is extending its reach into the upstream LED market sector, and ...
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DuPont Displays (DuPont) announced the opening of a state-of-the-art, scale-up manufacturing facility designed to deliver production scale quantities of advanced materials that enable large-format, solution-based printed Organic Light ...
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Chinese sapphire maker Aurora announced last week, it would be investing RMB 40 million (US $6.32 million) in a new investment management arm to integrate investments in the sapphire supply chain, according to a report from China Securities ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, international mining group Rio Tinto and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) have announced that Australia's first commercial ...
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In booth 302 at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015) in Valencia, Spain (28-30 September), optical communication product maker Source Photonics Inc of West Hills, CA, USA is demonstrating its CWDM QSFP28 single-mode ...
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Automotive safety system maker Autoliv has joined the Drive Me project under which the company will work with Volvo to accelerate the autonomous driving (AD) initiative. Drive Me project was established in 2013, and it is a joint ...
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Vehicle technology maker Cohda Wireless has introduced V2X-Radar system which is capable of delivering low-cost, 360-degree radar for vehicles fitted with V2X connected car systems. The technology created by Cohda Wireless allows ...
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