Rigid plastics, flexibles, and board, metal and glass packaging will drive industry expansion across the next five years. In global researcher Smithers Pira's report, called The Future of Global Packaging to 2020, it states that the $839 ...
Tags: Smith Pira, Rigid plastics, Packaging Market
The Min7 portable speaker is different to most. It's made of wood, but instead of plumping for one type of wood, its makers have used wood splicing technology. This means they used some teak, oak and walnut, of the kind you'd use for ...
Tags: Min7, Wooden speaker, Furniture
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia has commenced production of engines at Karawang plant in West Java. Karawang plant has been built at a cost 2.3 trillion Indonesian Rupiah ($172m). The plant is expected to produce at least 216,000 ...
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully developed an environmentally-friendly food packaging material that is free from chemical additives, by fortifying natural chitosan-based composite film with ...
Tags: Eco-Friendly Food, Food Packaging
Accenture and SEAT have agreed to collaborate to build a proof of concept for next generation cars with app that can connect appliances at home, provide car alerts and monitor driver behaviour. Accenture and SEAT have developed a proof of ...
Tags: next generation cars, car alerts
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed an environmentally-friendly food packaging material capable of doubling shelf-life of food products. The new material, which is free from chemical additives, has ...
Tags: Food Packaging Material, Packaging
Swedish firm iFoodbag has received a €1.7m grant from the European Commission (EC) to develop the next generation carrier bag for grocery industry. The grant, which was provided under Horizon 2020 SME instrument programme, will be ...
Tags: iFoodbag, Carrier Bag
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier says that its CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar panels have been installed by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd (K Line, one of Japan's largest shipping companies) on its newest ...
Tags: PV Panels, solar panels
General Motors has opened a CNY8bn ($ 1.2bn) Cadillac plant in Shanghai, China to produce CT6 luxury sedan range. The plant, operated by SAIC-GM joint venture, will produce at least 160,000 cars per year. The plant has been ...
Tags: General Motors, Cadillac
Nissan is planning to invest £26.5m to produce next generation electric vehicle (EV) batteries at the company's advanced lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in Sunderland, UK. The proposed investment expects to save 300 jobs ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, Batteries
China's largest rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Corp. has developed a new generation of super graphene capacitors that can power electric buses with higher efficiency and for a longer period. The train maker has produced two types of ...
Tags: New Super Capacitors
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 ...
Tags: Pratt Industries, containerboard, Packaging
The Minack open-air theatre in Cornwall, built on a craggy cliff overlooking the sea at Porthcurno, is the last place you would expect to see SGM’s award-winning G-Spot strutting its stuff. Situated just four miles from Land’s ...
Tags: SGM, LED Spot lights, Lighting
The Plaza del Melinio was upgraded with LED lights from Philips, LED landscape lighting was installed around the square, painting fountains, steps and architecture with stunning lighting effects. (All Photo Courtesy of Philips) Customer ...
Tags: LED Floodlighting, LED landscape lighting, LED-lit Dome
"LED lighting solutions save power and therefore reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and they're not only environmentally-friendly but also economic. In most situations, costs for upgrading to LED lighting are paid back rapidly due to lower ...
Tags: Osram, LED Streetlights, LED lighting