TreeHouse Foods (THS) has completed the acquisition of Protenergy Natural Foods, a developer and manufacturer of food and beverage products, for C$170m ($157m). Protenergy Natural Foods produces private label broth, soups and gravies, ...
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China looks back on nearly 5000 years of continued history tremendously rich on innovation and scientific achievements. For centuries the Chinese had been at the forefront of humanity's intellectual and technological progress and often far ...
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Scientists at Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials are turning by-products of wood and wool into biodegradable packaging to help slash global plastic consumption. Dr Nishar Hameed says humans consume more than 100 ...
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Researchers based in USA and South Korea have developed a gate stack for III-V quantum well metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (QW MOSFETs) based on a bilayer dielectric of beryllium oxide (BeO) and hafnium dioxide (HfO2) ...
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A new study has revealed that more than half of the consumers in New Zealand are confused by food package labels. The study 'Country of Origin Labelling and the New Zealand Seafood Industry' published in a text book by Cambridge ...
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TreeHouse Foods is set to acquire Protenergy Natural Foods from Whitecastle Investments, Whitecap Venture Partners and others, for around CAD$170m ($150m) Protenergy produces food and beverage products such as carton and recart broth, ...
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Cambridge Nanotherm, the manufacturer of advanced Aluminium Nano-Ceramic substrate technology for the thermal management of electronic applications, installs the first of many fully automated lines. Nanotherm? production line extends the ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Aluminium Nano-Ceramic Substrates, LED
Firm becomes exclusive UK and Ireland distributor of the electronic play concept. Toy Essentials has been appointed as the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor of Popar. Popar is an award winning electronic play concept from the US ...
Don Herzog, a pork producer from Rapelje, Mont., for his outstanding contributions to the U.S. pork industry, last week was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Pork Producers Council at the organization’s annual business ...
The National Pork Producers Council today elected new officers and members to its board of directors at its annual business meeting – the National Pork Industry Forum – held here. Elected as president of the organization was ...
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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered the splattered remains of comets colliding together around a nearby star; the researchers believe they are witnessing the total destruction ...
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New retail arm of Educational Essentials opens its doors. The new retail arm of Educational Essentials - Toy Essentials - has officially opened its doors. Headed up by Robin Bennett (pictured centre), Toy Essentials will launch with a ...
A lot of research has been done on graphene recently—carbon flakes, consisting of only one layer of atoms. As it turns out, there are other materials too which exhibit remarkable properties if they are arranged in a single layer. One ...
Indie reports uplift in dress up and accessories sales through the annual event. If you have spotted a gaggle of Harry Potters at the local toy shop or a group of Peter Pans skipping through the town centre, there's no need to panic, it's ...
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Despite skepticism in the chip industry that Moore’s Law could be reaching its limits, MIT Researchers believe that they have found a way to enable semiconductor manufacturers to continue shrinking geometries below 20 nanometer and ...
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