India’s auto component manufacturer Pricol has acquired a Brazilian auto component firm Melling do Brasil through its wholly-owned Spanish subsidiary Pricol Espana. The company has informed BSE that its Board of Directors has ...
Tags: oil, water pumps, cold start valves, Auto
Researchers at The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) have achieved what is claimed to be record solar system energy conversion efficiency of 40.4% (presented on 8 December at the Australian PV Institute’s Asia-Pacific ...
Tags: Solar System, energy conversion, Electrical
Armstrong World Industries has decided to exit its European flooring business and cease further funding of its DLW subsidiary effective immediately. As a result of this decision, local DLW management filed for insolvency in Germany. ...
GlobalWafers Japan (GWJ), a subsidiary of Taiwan-based semiconductor-grade silicon wafer maker GlobalWafers, will expand its 8-inch wafer production capacity by about 10% in 2015, according to president and CEO Toru Masaoka. GWJ uses ...
Tags: wafer maker, Lights
Munich-based chemicals group Wacker has reorganized its silicone distribution business in the Nordic countries. As of March 1, 2015, Lindberg & Lund Oy AB, a subsidiary of the Norwegian chemicals distributor Lindberg & Lund AS, will market ...
Quaker Oats, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, has introduced new breakfast offerings to its product range. In an effort to meet the growing demand for alternative breakfast choices, Quaker is reinvigorating the idea of oatmeal, the breakfast ...
Tags: Quaker Oats, Breakfast Offerings
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK and the Cambridge Centre for GaN (part of University of Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) have grown cubic GaN on 3C-SiC on silicon wafers by metal-organic chemical ...
Tags: green LEDs, silicon wafers, Electrical
DILAS Diode Laser Inc in Tucson, AZ, USA, a subsidiary of diode laser maker DILAS of Mainz, Germany, has appointed Dr Chris Ebert as its new business development director & regional sales manager (East). The firm says that Ebert has an ...
Tags: diode laser, in-situ temperature, Electrical
Lapp India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Germany-based Lapp Group has announced the expansion of its manufacturing facility at Jigani in Bangalore. The project will increase the company’s production area from the existing 5,227 ...
Holcim Canada and Van Houtte Coffee Services Inc., a subsidiary of Keurig Canada Inc, are proud to team up to reduce their respective environmental footprints. The two companies recently introduced a new service to recover the energy ...
Tags: K-Cup Packs, Ccoffee Services, Agriculture
Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers are accelerating their investment plans to alleviate the problem of insufficient production capacity, despite the hazy business outlook for 2015. The Tongtai Group's board of directors recently ...
Tags: machine-tool, Machinery
Food manufacturing was one of four manufacturing sub-sectors to expand in November 2014, according to the Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI). Food manufacturing expansion Among the ...
Tags: Dairy Products, beverages, tobacco
BASF broke ground on a new Innovation Campus in Navi Mumbai, India. The company will invest approximately €50 million via BASF Chemicals India Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE. The facility will accommodate around ...
Tags: BASF, Innovation Campus, Construction
Nutroganics has inked a letter of intent to acquire certain assets of soy yogurt brand Wholesoy for an undisclosed amount. Wholesoy offers organic, non-gmo verified, soy yogurt to natural foods retailers such as Whole Foods and specialty ...
Tags: soy yogurt, Agriculture
India-based Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and China-based Shandong Ruyi Science and Technology Group Co Ltd (Ruyi) (through its wholly owned subsidiary), have signed definitive agreements for setting up a joint venture (JV) in textiles, ...
Tags: joint venture, Textile