Premium Ingredients Food Services India is planning to set up second modular and portable powder blending (PPB) manufacturing facility in India by mid 2016. The company, which is a part of the Blendhub Corp group, specializes in the ...
The French parliament has passed a law which will see the implementation of plain packaging for cigarettes, in a move to reduce the number of smoking related deaths in the country. Starting May 2016, the new packaging will come into ...
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China-based ZTE has received a cash injection from the government enabling the company to accelerate the development of its own application processors, while Lenovo also intends to develop ARM-based chips in-house, according to industry ...
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LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it will invest KRW1.84 trillion (US $ 1.60 billion) to begin building a new panel plant in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Korea, with production ...
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Cabinet furniture supplier Flexiload is consolidating its operations in a single base in Beijing, with the aim of improving administrative, cost and time efficiency, and also plans to grow its sourcing team and employ a dedicated designer. ...
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Flexible packaging specialist Cosmo Films has announced it will install a 10.4m BOPP line by early 2017. The production line will increase the manufacturer's annual BOPP production capacity from 140k to 200k MT. The installation will be ...
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A plastic bottle cap that senses and reacts to music and movement through use of a smartphone has been released in Japan. Brewing company Kirin's Illumicap has a built-in wireless communication and lighting system which can illuminate the ...
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US-based packaged foods company Pinnacle Foods has entered into an agreement to acquire Boulder Brands for $975m, in a move that signifies the former’s expansion into health and wellness segments. The acquisition is expected to ...
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The US Federal transportation officials are planning to revise polices on self-driving cars and will release an update to the policies in the coming weeks. In 2013, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued ...
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Africa-focused multinational consumer goods company Vasari Global along with UK-based asset management firm Duet Group, and the TIRET Group, which is an Ethiopian endowment fund, has unveiled an advanced brewery plant at Debre Birhan, which ...
Confectionery company Mondelez’s Romanian arm is seeking a buyer to sell its chocolate factory in Poiana, Romania. The buildings and the 13,000sqm land area costs €2.1m, excluding taxes. The factory is located in Brasov. One ...
Wood pulp and paper maker Sappi has completed the sale of its Cape Kraft Mill in Cape Town, South Africa to the Golden Era Group. The move comes on the heels of Enstra Mill's sale earlier this month. The sale of Cape Kraft Mill and ...
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German car manufacturer Volkswagen has started rolling out 3D smart glasses as standard equipment at its Wolfsburg plant in North Germany. The glasses are given to the plant logistics personnel who are using them on voluntary basis for ...
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Many Chinese travel agencies have cancelled tour plans in France due to security fears after the last week Paris attacks. [File photo] Apart from the human cost of the terror attacks in Paris last week, there is also the economic impact. ...
Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China plans to raise its average life expectancy by two years to 70 in five years, a local official has said. Medical services in rural areas will be greatly improved to achieve this goal, Zeng ...
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