British flexible films manufacturer Skymark is investing in a new Nordmecanica Super Simplex solvent-less laminator to increase capacity at its facility in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, the UK. When installed in November this year, the new ...
Tags: Skymark, flexible films, medical packaging, blown film
Metal packaging products supplier Crown Holdings is to increase beverage can capacity at its Osmaniye plant, in central southern Turkey with the installation of a new production line. The expansion plans come in response to increasing ...
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PPG Industries has completed the expansion work worth $27m at its coatings manufacturing facility in San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, Mexico. Work under the expansion included the addition of space for production, product development and ...
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) together with analog foundry ...
Tags: Panasonic, CMOS, Semiconductor, wireless communication, automotive radar
Fresh meat provider J&G Foods has installed its fifth Repak RE20 form, fill and seal vacuum packaging machine Repaks for the production of vacuum and modified-atmosphere packages (MAP) from flexible and semi-rigid materials, as well as ...
Due to the continued rapid growth in Europe, Penn Color will double its capacity to manufacture color and additive masterbatches for the thermoplastic industry at its Venray, Netherlands location. In order to accommodate the new equipment, ...
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Flint Group is expanding its Sheetfed production and distribution network in Russia with the opening of a Low Migration ink mixing station in its Moscow facility. In Moscow, this expansion has already been completed with the installation ...
Tags: Flint Group, Low Migration ink mixing station, package printing
Japanese automaker Subaru has announced plan to invest $140m in its Indiana plant in the US to boost its production capacity by 100,000 units per year. The plant currently produces 300,000 units. The investment will be made by Subaru ...
Tags: Subaru, Fuji Heavy Industries, Indiana
Mercedes-Benz said that it would be investing $1.3bn in its Tuscaloosa plant in Alabama to increase production of its next generation SUVs. The investment is expected to allow the company to be more flexible and efficient in the ...
Capacity expansion by Chinese LED chip makers has resulted in a supply glut, with this year's LED chip supply-demand ratio reaching 22%, according to the latest '2015 Global LED Industry Supply and Demand Database Report' by LEDinside (a ...
Tags: LED Chip, MOCVD Capacity
Hostess Brands, which is known for its snack cakes, is expanding into breads and buns category with an aim to offer one-stop shopping for convenience and discount stores that sell its products. This move comes after the company came up ...
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Mainly benefiting cost savings from utilization of in-stock raw materials procured earlier at lower prices, Taiwan-based China Steel Corp. (CSC), the island's largest steelmaker by size, therefore chalked up a 54-percent growth in pretax ...
Tags: raw material, global market, coking coal, iron ore
Premier Li Keqiang has encouraged State-owned enterprises to play a key role in the drive by the nation's industries to "go global", and make the most of their financial and technological advantages as they step up their international ...
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Four Taiwanese manufacturers have announced to increase capital to fund their expansion plans in the Taichung Export Processing Zone in central Taiwan and Chiayi Dapumei Intelligent Industrial Park in southern Taiwan. The four companies ...
Tags: IC packaging, single-lens camera, camera
IIC-Intersport International Corporation has signed a license agreement for the territory of Ukraine with Epicentr K. This agreement exclusively allows Epicentr K to open Intersport stores in Ukraine, sell Intersport’s private label ...
Tags: IIC-Intersport, Epicentr K, sporting