5 years after the introduction of the successful Porta-Wash line SETeMa announces a complete new developed module: the E-Wash, a professional open width washing machine. Looking at customer’s requirements SETeMa has seen a growing ...
Tags: High Speed Fabric, SETema
The European Commission (EC) has approved the proposed acquisition of the Cocoa Ingredients division of Singapore-based Petra Foods by Swiss confectionery firm Barry Callebaut for $950m. The investigation conducted by the Commission ...
Tags: Ingredients Division, Food
The Eurozone manufacturing downturn eased for the first time in four months in May. Moreover, all sub indices from the latest survey improved on the earlier flash estimates except suppliers’ delivery times. At a 15-month high of ...
Tags: Manufacturing, May, Eurozone
Following a sharp fall in 2009, EU27 international trade in goods with Russia has grown strongly since then to reach record levels in 2012. After falling from 105 billion euro in 2008 to 66 bn in 2009, EU27 exports to Russia have risen ...
The 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition will be held from June 9 to 12 at the China Import and Export Fair Exhibition Centre. The exhibition is expected to attract more than 110,000 visitors to come to visit, including GE ...
Apparelsourcing Paris has been expanded to accommodate more exhibitors at its 5th show, from 16 to 19 September at le Bourget in Hall 2. The new space dedicated to ApparelSourcing Paris will be 10% larger compared with that last ...
Tags: Apparel&Accessories, Apparelsourcing, Paris
Seven large companies in east Netherlands have formed industrial partnerships with the aim of accelerating technological innovations relating to new high-tech materials, products and systems and of rolling these out in international ...
Tags: Apparel, high-tech materials
UK-based food ingredients firm Tate & Lyle has announced the expansion of instant starch production capacity at its manufacturing facility in Koog aan de Zaan, the Netherlands. This expansion will allow the company to cater to the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
In 2012, 15.2 million foreign citizens worked in the EU27, accounting for 7% of total employment. Among these foreign citizens, 6.6 million were citizens of another EU Member State and 8.6 million were citizens of a country outside the EU. ...
Tags: EU, Labour Force, Foreign Citizens
SUN POWERED The solar LEDs are lit using a new generation of efficient solar-powered LED lighting to provide light for communities with no electricity Royal Philips Electronics is continuing its program of installing more than 100 ...
In results published this morning, RPC revealed that sales for the year to 31 March 2013 slipped to £1.05bn, from £1.13bn the previous year. Pre-tax profit fell to £40.3m compared to £59.6m a year earlier. The ...
Dutch dairy cooperative Royal FrieslandCampina is set to install a new evaporator at FrieslandCampina Domo milk processing facility in Bedum, Netherlands. The new 3.5m wide and 24m long evaporator is designed to evaporate water from milk ...
Tags: Milk, Agriculture, Food
According to a report from Energy Research Associates Wood Mackenzie, China's coal consumption is expected to double in 2030, reaching 7 billion tons per year, though China has taken measures to control coal consumption. The report says ...
Tags: Coal Consumption, Energy
Fairphone has received enough orders to start production on what it says is a smartphone that will be built according to ethical standards, designed and produced with minimal harm to people and the planet. The Amsterdam-based company ...
Tags: Fairphone, Smartphone
Denmark and the Netherlands tied for first place in a new benchmark report that ranks all 27 European Union countries measuring five criteria—daily cycling levels, cycle tourism, advocacy activity, bicycle sales and cyclists’ ...