Earlier this month packaging expert Des King discussed why looks count and first impressions matter when it comes to building market share. Here, he continues his exploration of digital packaging, mobile technology, and the industry's ...
Tags: Digital Packaging, packaging
Germany-based Bosch Packaging Technology will showcase its latest technologies for packaging bars and baked items in its maiden appearance at IBA 2015, in Munich, in September. The company's Pack 301 LS (Length Slug) mid-range automation ...
Communications and information technology company Nokia has signed a deal to sell its HERE digital mapping and location services unit to a consortium comprising Audi, BMW Group and Daimler in a deal worth €2.8bn. The transaction, ...
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German automotive giant Volkswagen (VW) has for the first time edged past Japanese carmaker Toyota to rise to the numero uno position in automobile sales during the first half of the current year. VW managed to sell 5.04 million units ...
Tags: Volkswagen, Carmaker, emerging markets
BASF and PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) will build a new world-scale production plant for highly reactive polyisobutene (HR-PIB) at the site of their existing joint venture, BASF PETRONAS Chemicals Sdn Bhd, in Kuantan, Malaysia. ...
Tags: chemicals, coating, BASF, PETRONAS Chemicals Group, paint and pigment
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), and SPARX Group (SPARX Group) have signed a memorandum of understanding to consider the establishment of a new investment fund aiming to encourage innovation and ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, vehicle technology, intelligent technology
The scale of the Chinese LED package market grew 19% year on year to US$8.6 billion in 2014, according to the 2015 Chinese LED Industry Market Report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. The growth of the Chinese LED package market will ...
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R&P and Shanghai Hop Zenith Chemical Trading have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for floating a joint venture to set up a unit in China for production and distribution of Thermoplastic PolyOlefin (TPO) compounds for the ...
Tags: automoblie manufacture, auto parts
Belgian brewing company Duvel Moortgat and Firestone Walker Brewing will combine their operations in the US, while operating independently. The companies have signed an agreement to this effect earlier this week. Firestone Walker ...
Tags: beverage, beer, brewing operation
II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA says that the Advanced Materials Division of its Performance Products Segment in Pine Brook, NJ, which supplies single-crystal silicon carbide (SiC) substrates and CVD-grown polycrystalline diamond materials, ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, II-VI, SiC substrates, SiC Wafer
EnWave has signed a technology evaluation and license option agreement with a vertically-integrated, leading table grape producer in California. The Agreement grants the GP the exclusive right to develop crispy grape snack applications ...
Tags: agriclutural products, fruits, grape
Researchers at the Oregon State University (OSU) in the US have patented a new strain of succulent red marine algae called dulse, which tastes like bacon. The protein-rich dulse, which is usually grown in the wild along the Pacific and ...
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FreeWire Technologies and Siemens have joined hands to pilot and market Mobi Charger, riding high on Siemens eCar Operation Center (OC) and Siemens VersiCharge electric vehicle-charging knowhow. Mobi Charger claims to power businesses to ...
Tags: auto accessories, EV batteries, batteries
Sports car manufacturer Porsche, an arm of German automotive giant Volkswagen, will pump in more than Eur1.1bn for modernizing its manufacturing units for launching more car variants by 2020. The initiative comes under an agreement, ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, Porsche, Volkswagen, Sports car
Since the implementation of policy of subsidies for purchasing agricultural machinery in 2004, China agricultural machinery industry has maintained double-digit growth, even with the operating revenue growth rate of 33.8% in 2011. However, ...
Tags: agricultural machinery, tractor