PPG Industries today announced that it has completed a $27m expansion of its San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, Mexico, coatings manufacturing facility. The company marked completion of the project, which adds 115 new jobs, with a grand-opening ...
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Sustainable packaging manufacturer Petainer has expanded its product range with the introduction of an enhanced PET solution for steel keg lines at BrauBeviale 2015. The new improved petainerKeg Linestar offers all benefits of the ...
Ball Corporation has increased its production capacity with the opening of a new aluminum aerosol can plant in northwest city of Ahmedabad, India. The move is in line with the company's Drive for 10 vision strategy of expanding its ...
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Specialty label and packaging company CCL Industries is planning to invest around $35m in its facility in Guanajuato, Mexico over the next three years. The investment will see the addition of new equipment to manufacture plastic laminate ...
China’s exports to 70 countries under its “One Belt, One Road” strategy was up 1.5% to US$ 372 billion from January to June 2015, according to China’s custom data. The country’s imports declined 18.8% to US$ ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Nypro, a healthcare & packaging division of Jabil, has acquired Spanish food and consumer packaging supplier Plasticos Castella for an undisclosed amount. The addition of Plasticos' design, engineering and manufacturing facilities in ...
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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 ...
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Crown Paper Group has completed the acquisition of Montebello Container, an independent corrugated sheet manufacturer based in Southern California, US. Montebello president Anthony Salcido and vice-president John Salcido will continue ...
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Tetra Pak has introduced Tetra Pak TR/G7, a low-cost, easy to operate filling machine for chilled distribution. The Tetra Pak TR/G7 has been developed in association with filling machine producer, Galdi. The device has been made for a ...
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PPG Industries has completed a $3.8 million expansion at its coatings manufacturing facility in Laguna de Duero, Valladolid, Spain. The investment provides new, state-of-the-art, mixing and blending equipment at the facility that will ...
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SunOpta, a leading global company focused on organic, non-genetically modified and specialty foods, will participate in Natural Products Expo East being held in Baltimore, MD from September 17 - 19, 2015. SunOpta will showcase its healthy ...
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MillerCoors is closing its brewery in Eden, North Carolina due to sales decline as there has been a visible shift in consumer preferences from mainstream beer to crafts beer. The Eden brewery was the first to brew Miller Genuine Draft. ...
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Kruger Packaging will invest C$250m ($188.6m) to convert the newsprint machine at its Trois-Rivières mill in Canada to produce lightweight linerboard. The project is being backed by a C$190m ($143.3m) funding from the ...
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