The Optoelectronics group of Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has launched a new series of true green LEDs in a compact surface-mount 0603 ChipLED package. Measuring 1.6mm by 0.8mm with an ultra-thin 0.55mm profile, the ...
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Evrything, the Internet of Things (IOT) Smart Products Platform for consumer products, has announced industry-first connection of GS1 identifiers with the IOT industrial scale. With this integration, consumer goods brands can use billions ...
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UK-based Kite Packaging has introduced new do not stack cones, offering a instantly recognizable way of finding where products cannot be stacked on top of one another. The cones have been developed to immediately recognize where products ...
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UK-based speciality packaging solutions provider Parkside has introduced new reclose lidding film for a snack fruit pack in the US. The Handy Candy pack, which is designed for a snack fruit pack in America, can be used for either ...
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US corrugated packaging firm WestRock has agreed to acquire all the assets of New York-based Island Container and an affiliate named Combined Container Industries. Island Container and Combined Container are independent producers of ...
Ardagh Group has been awarded Innovative Glass Product 2017 for preserve jar by the Glass Packaging Action Forum in Hamburg, Germany. The ‘Innovative Glass Product’ award is organised by Aktionsforum Glasverpackung (part of BV ...
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UK food company Bradburys Cheese has installed Ulma Packaging’s high-speed flowrapping technology at its Buxton facility. Bradburys has produced a new range of mini portions of its selection of cheeses with the support of Artic ...
UK-based Micromix Plant Health has installed Linx Printing Technologies' four 8900 Continuous Ink Jet (CIJ) printers. Micromix is a developer of chemical formulations and also manufactures a range of crop and plant nutrition products. The ...
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Golden West Packaging has acquired four independent Northern California packaging firms and their co-owned sheet feeder plant for an undisclosed sum. The company acquired Heritage Solutions, Capital Corrugated, PackageOne, Packaging ...
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German automotive manufacturing firm Continental has become a development partner and system integrator of the collaboration between BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye for automated driving. It is the goal of the BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye ...
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Starting in summer 2017, BMW's new 530e plug-in hybrid will be produced at Magna's contract manufacturing facility in Graz, Austria. As a contract manufacturing partner for two premium electrified vehicles – the BMW 530e and the ...
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Specialty biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films manufacturer Treofan is investing around $45m in a new orientation line at its Americas facility in Zacapu, Mexico. The five-layer and 10.4m orientation line will help to enhance the ...
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Finnish industrial supplier Valmet has received an order to supply its Advantage NTT tissue production line to Sofidel’s Ibertissue mill in Bunuel, Navarra, in Spain. As per the order, Valmet will supply NTT 200 tissue production ...
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Costco has broken ground on a $300m poultry processing plant in the US state of Nebraska. Dubbed the Lincoln Premium Poultry facility, the project which will be built in Fremont is Costco’s first-ever chicken processing plant. ...
SIG Combibloc, along with Rio Grande do Sul’s production cooperative Languiru, has introduced a new digital solution for traceability, digital marketing and supply chain optimization. The solution offers transparency for quality and ...
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