According to Visiongain, a British market research firm, the global flexible packaging market has reached some US$143.83 billion, mostly driven by growing sales of consumer products in emerging nations. In the next decade, the firm ...
Novatec Solar and BASF have successfully commissioned a solar thermal demonstration plant based on a new type of molten salt technology, known as direct molten salt or DMS technology. The plant is located on the site of the solar-thermal ...
Tags: Novatec Solar, BASF, molten salt, DMS technology
Mercedes-Benz has announced that it will invest more than €3bn to strengthen four of its plants in Germany. The company is planning to invest €1bn in Sindelfingen plant where it plans to develop future products, another ...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, Car, Auto, Vehicle
Chinese car maker Wuling is planning to produce new city EV electric car called City Car which is expected to be similar to BMW i3. Reports suggest that the company might take more than just designing elements from the German company, as ...
According to news reports, Fort Wayne, Indiana-based stainless steel producers Valbruna Slater Stainless and Valbruna Stainless filed a petition Monday with the US International Trade Commission, seeking to block imports of certain products ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, stainless steel
In July this year, the seasonally and working-day adjusted turnover in the German manufacturing industry increased by one percent compared to June, according to the preliminary data reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office ...
Tags: Metal Manufacturing, Mineral
The Chinese bakery and cereals market – already the largest in volume – is set to become the second most valuable by 2018, as more urban dwellers consume pick-me-up snacks on-the-go, according to new findings from global market ...
Tags: bakery market, cereals
German brand Jäger und Sammler has chosen NatureFlex, a compostable flexible packaging material produced by Innovia Films, for its range of energy bars. Jäger und Sammlerwas established in Berlin this year to produce, develop ...
Tags: Compostable Packaging, Energy Bars
Mercedes-Benz sees good prospects in the US market and is expanding the local production capacities in the country. "We are consistently seeing record sales in the USA. By launching the new C-Class we are setting new standards in our ...
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Following the slightly weakening quotations of the New York cotton futures, the CIF Bremen Index too followed suit, although the corresponding Euro prices remained stable due to a stronger dollar. In the local German market, the number ...
Tags: Cotton, Cotton Futures
Evonik has invested in its German operations with new large-scale industrial plants, capacity expansions, and new research centers. The company plans to invest some two billion Euros of the extensive investment program it has developed as ...
Tags: Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
Driven by over a 20% rise in wholesale sales, revenues ascended 15.9% year-on-year at UK-based SuperGroup Plc, which manages the Superdry fashion brand in its first fiscal quarter ended July 26, 2014. SuperGroup said that during the first ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Clothing Economy
In August of the current year, new motor vehicle registrations (including automobiles and commercial vehicles) in the German market totaled 236,610 units, down 22.81 percent month on month and increasing by 0.31 percent year on year, ...
In the second quarter of this year, order bookings in the German machine tool industry increased by one percent year on year, according to the German Machine Tool Builders' Association (VDW). Given the dominance of the German industry in ...
German fashion retailer Zalando says it had a very successful first half of 2014. Sales surged 29.5 percent to EUR 1,047 million in the first six months of 2014 against EUR 809 million in the corresponding period of 2013, according to a ...