European bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices, Refresco Gerber has signed an agreement to acquire the bottling facility in Hamburg, Germany from food and beverage company PepsiCo in a bid to strengthen its co-bottling activities. The ...
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Each succeeding edition of LED Expo Thailand has opened new possibilities for LED-related professionals to expand their businesses into ASEAN’s potentially-viable LED markets. The 4th edition to be held in April 2016 will include more ...
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Finland-based Valmet has received a contract to supply modern machine to Italy’s Pro-Gest Group, allowing it to expand its paper recycling capacity. Under the deal, Valmet will supply a machine, which will be installed at Pro-Gest's ...
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2015 opened in Budapest on Monday with keynote addresses by ITU Secretary-General Zhao Houlin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Zhao underlined that small and ...
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China and Finland have set up a fund that will pool money from Chinese and Finnish enterprises to invest in innovative startups and joint tech projects. The 40-million-euro fund, agreed at a forum in Beijing technology hub Zhongguancun on ...
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Chile's ALMA observatory says it is joining forces with other space observatories around the world to create a virtual earth-sized telescope capable of visualizing objects on the moon. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ...
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Corrugated packaging company Pratt Industries has recently commissioned a new $260m containerboard production line at its greenfield paper mill in Valparaiso, in the US state of Indiana. The OptiConcept M board making line was supplied by ...
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Finland-based consumer and specialty packaging manufacturer Huhtamaki is expanding manufacturing capacity at its molded fiber packaging plant in Lurgan, Northern Ireland to better serve the growing egg market in the UK and Ireland. Work ...
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Sales of Huawei smartphones have grown 125 percent year-on-year in Central, Eastern, and Northern European regions. 3.5 million units have been delivered, an increase of over 110 percent compared with a year ago. Meantime, sales revenue ...
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Plastic film supplier Rani Plast is planning to install a new Davis-Standard line with blown film die, which will enable the company to produce both high barrier agriculture films and non barrier conventional PE-based films. Scheduled for ...
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From L-R, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, President-designate of COP21 and French ...
Finland-based food company Raisio is in the process of streamlining its UK cereal and snack business in order to focus on manufacturing more consumer-oriented product range. In this regard, the company has completed consultation ...
Lectra, a leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials has announced the appointment of Jean-Patrice Gros as director of Lectra Northern Europe (United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, ...
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Mercedes-Benz is planning to expand the production of its new GLC SUV by manufacturing the cars at its contract manufacturer’s facility in Uusikaupunki, Finland. Valmet Automotive is Finnish contract manufacturer of Mercedes-Benz ...
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JAC held its Gallop Heavy-duty Truck 2016 Business Meeting in Hefei. Themed "Deepening Marketing Strategies, Honoring JAC Customers and Creating a Win-Win Situation", the meeting made a thorough review of Gallop heavy-duty trucks' ...
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