The Volkswagen Group is exploiting possibilities of digitalization as the company believes that IT will play an important role in its future operations. At the Group IT symposium held in Wolfsburg, Germany, members of the Volkswagen Group ...
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QuadPackaging has streamlined global brand management with improved GlobalPassport solution. The optimized GlobalPassport brand management service protects brand identity and ensures quality and consistency of cartons, tags, labels and ...
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Axon, powered by Pro Mach, demonstrates at Expo Pack 2016, May 17-20 in Mexico City, shrink sleeve labeling technology that enables more productive and sustainable packaging operations. Axon displays the company's most technically ...
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Scania has inaugurated a €10m Technology Centre in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, with engine test cells that will be used for the developing, testing and certifying of its engines. "With this initiative we are placing Brazil within ...
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ParTech, a global provider of point-of-sale (POS) and food safety solutions to the restaurant industry and wholly owned subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation has announced that Graeter’s Ice Cream has completed the deployment of ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2016 (to 26 March), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $101.1m, up 7.4% on $94.1m last quarter (a third ...
Automaker Ford has invested $182.2m in technology firm Pivotal to speed up cloud-based software development. Headquartered in San Francisco, Pivotal is a cloud-based software company accelerating digital transformation for enterprises. ...
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For first-quarter 2016, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has reported ...
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Smart electric meter, an important basic device for acquiring smart grid data, undertakes the tasks of electricity data acquisition, metering and transmission, and plays a fundamental role in achieving information integration, analysis & ...
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China will test a new policy that aims to make the import and export of gold a lot easier, according to a statement jointly issued by the People's Bank of China and the General Administration of Customs. The new policy, set to be tested ...
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Comexi is set to unveil its new F1 flexographic press and the new offset CI8 press at the Drupa fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, which will be held from 31 May to 10 June. The new machine, which has been designed for the large format ...
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China's manufacturing activity expanded for the second month in a row in April but at a slower pace, official data showed on Sunday. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) came in at 50.1 in April, slightly down from March's 50.2 and below ...
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Business activity in China's non-manufacturing sector expanded at slower pace in April, official data showed on Sunday. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector stood at 53.5 in April, down from 53.8 in March ...
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Researchers in Hong Kong and China have claimed the first demonstration of gallium nitirde (GaN) fully vertical p-type-intrinsic-n-type (p-i-n) junction diodes on silicon (Si) [Xinbo Zou et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
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The shipments of smartphones worldwide in the first quarter marked the smallest year-on-year growth on record, and Chinese smartphone makers Oppo Electronics Corp and Vivo Mobile Communication Technology Co Ltd pushed out previous fourth ...
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