General Motors (GM) is looking to boost production of sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) with a $1.3bn expansion at its Arlington assembly plant in Texas, US. The company intends to add 1.2 million ft2 of space to the existing facility over ...
Confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate Mondelez has commenced production and sale of Oreo in Morocco, following an $11m investment towards its local subsidiary in Casablanca. With the investment, Mondelez aims to create the largest ...
Tags: Mondelez, Oreo production, Food
European supplier of pre-press services to the flexo market, the Miller Graphics Group, has installed a ThermoFlexX 80-S imager with an investment of close to €1m at its new 800 square metre factory in Bejaia, Algeria. The factory ...
Tags: Imager, flexo market, Printing
US-based corrugated box maker Welch Packaging is considering a $16.54m expansion that would help in the creation of 118 new jobs in the next three years. Welch Packaging specializes in making corrugated packaging, boxes and other ...
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Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers, including Motech Industries, Neo Solar Power and Gintech Energy, plan to set up production lines in countries other than China to cope with US ant-dumping tariffs and have begun searching ...
Tags: Solar Cell, ant-dumping tariffs
Canadian food safety organisation Prairie Diagnostic Services (PDS) has received a $549,278 funding from Harper Government to purchase new equipment to expand and modernise its testing efficiency. This new financial support will help PDS ...
Tags: Food Safety, New Equipment
Vermont-based GW Plastics is breaking into high-speed medical molding with the addition of two 240-ton injection molding machines, the company announced at the 30th annual MD&M West conference and trade show Feb. 10 in Anaheim. The twin ...
Foodservice equipment producer Middleby will acquire high speed slicing business unit of the UK-based Marel. The acquisition, which includes Marel High Speed Slicing business unit's assets and the manufacturing facility, is expected to be ...
PPG Industries' automotive refinish business has been heavily involved in a groundbreaking associate degree program in collision repair and refinishing technology at Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC) in Fayetteville, N.C. On ...
INDEVCO‘s subsidiary INDEVCO Plastics has forayed into Texas, US, with its first manufacturing plant in Longview to produce petrochemical packaging products. The investment is part of INDEVCO's strategy to meet the expected surge in ...
Tags: packaging products, Agriculture
American meat processor Tyson Foods is planning to invest around $110m in the expansion of its poultry plant in Vienna, Georgia. This investment is expected to create 500 jobs in the region. Commenting on the expansion, Georgia ...
Tags: food safety, workplace safety, Agriculture
Honda commenced the production of 2016 Acura ILX sports sedan at the company’s Marysville Auto Plant in Ohio as it celebrated two decades of Acura production in the US. According to Honda, the new Acura is redesigned and ...
Birmingham-based direct mail fulfilment and print management services provider, Baker Goodchild, has made further investment in new equipment, upgrading some of its printing equipment and investing in a new mailing machine as the company ...
Tags: print management services, mail fulfilment, Office Supplies
Two baby and toddler food companies: Beech-Nut is 123 years old, Rafferty’s Garden is 7. Both lead with peak nutrition claims. Beech-Nut makes glass packaging part of this. Rafferty’s Garden uses flexible pouches. Let’s ...
Tags: glass packaging, baby food, Packaging
Russia-based Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill has signed a contract with Italy’s Toscotec for the supply of a new tissue line at its mill in Syasstroy, in the Leningrad region of Russia. The new equipment will help in producing higher ...
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