US-based semiconductor packaging and test services provider Amkor Technology announced that its latest flip chip molded ball grid array (FCmBGA) packaging technology will be used by Altera Corporation in its 28-nm Arria V field programmable ...
UK packaging firm Rigid Containers, part of Belgian paper and packaging company VPK Group has invested GBP4m to upgrade corrugating and casemaking capacity at its Desborough, Northamptonshire site. The company has installed a new 2.8m BHS ...
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HIGH POINT — Showtime will host 19 exhibitors from China, Taiwan and India in its International Pavilions during the fabric show here Dec. 2-5, according to organizers. The International Pavilions, which debuted at Showtime in June, ...
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Germany-based labeling equipment provider Rotocontrol will be displaying its products at Label Summit Africa, a showcasing event for the African labeling and packaging industry, which is scheduled from 19 to 20 March 2012 in Cape Town. ...
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Germany-based Romaco will be exhibiting technologies for primary and secondary packaging as well as pharmaceutical and cosmetic manufacturing on 19-22 November 2012 at Paris Emballage. The company claims its Noack N 921 blister packaging ...
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German label manufacturer Herma is set to adopt a new standard with two multi-layer products, HERMAperfectCut and HERMAperfectTack based on its HERMAperfect technology, effective 1 March 2012. The two product lines with 62Xpc adhesive and ...
GE Lighting introduced two new headlamp lighting solutions, including GE Nighthawk™ LED Sealed Beams and GE Nighthawk™ Xenon, within its Nighthawk™ automotive and trucking product family this week at the Automotive ...
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One would normally agree that eggs and naming babies have nothing to do with each other. In China, however, there is a very significant reason for relating these two things with each other. This is the baby naming ceremony, also called a ...
Two South Australian automotive suppliers have won $1.18 million funding in the first handouts as part of the new $30 million Automotive New Markets Program. Precise Global and Quality Plastics and Tooling qualified for funding under the ...
One of the more interesting forms of Chinese charms is the lock. This type of charm is based on the traditional Chinese device used to safeguard possessions and property. The charm, however, is flat and of one piece with no moving parts. ...
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Testing is heating up in the toaster labs at Consumer Reports. It will be another few weeks before the final results are in, revealing which toasters pop out the most evenly browned toast with the highest rate of consistency, but we can ...
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The Wa are one of the peoples with a deeper religious feeling in Southwest China. Some researches done in the first years of communist reforms, just when all the life and culture of indigenous peoples must be evaluated in terms of ...
FENG shui, the 6,000-year-old Chinese art or practice of geomancy, is said to utilize the laws of heaven and earth to improve by increasing positive energy or qi and avoiding the negative energy. In practice, feng shui (literally ...
Over a century ago, Oscar Wilde joked that America's only tradition was its youth. This was a distinctly European joke; Asians could not have found it funny. In Chinese culture, tradition is not just the most important thing, it is the only ...
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Chinese Festivals are always fun and no one does Festivals better than the Chinese. Of all the Chinese Festivals, the Moon Cake Festival is specifically aimed at families and in particular family reunions. As the full moon rises, ...
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