Toray Industries is bolstering production of high-performance fibers in emerging countries in Asia to reap the benefits of anticipated demand growth. “Textiles is a growth industry if you look at it on the global scale,” said ...
Tags: Textiles, expanding emerging markets, strengthening supply systems
Textile firms in the Mexican state of Puebla need to increase competitiveness and invest in expanding production centers, to manufacture high-quality textile products, in order to compete in the international markets, said Governor of ...
Taiwan-based solar cell makers Neo Solar Power and Topcell Solar International will buy high-efficiency polycrystalline silicon wafers from China-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, according to a press report from China. Neo Solar have ...
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Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest has announced that its integrated iron and steel plant Ural Steel saw its crude steel production in the fourth quarter last year decrease by 7.6 ...
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Riber S.A.of Bezons,France,which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy(MBE)systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells,has received a major order for the modernization of the fleet of R&D and pilot production MBE systems used ...
Tags: Riber MBE III-V lab, Riber, Iii-V Lab
ContiTech,a division German autoparts maker Continental,has acquired the business of Taizhou Fuju Rubber Belt Manufacture in China. This move by the company is aimed at expanding its drive belt business in China.The transaction will ...
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Arkema and Jurong Chemical have formed Sunke, a joint venture in which Arkema will have a majority interest, comprised of the assets of Jurong's acrylic acid production site in Taixing opened in 2012. This acquisition, in the wake of ...
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India is targeting a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 8-9 per cent in the coming years and to enable this growth, the economy needs the support of its power sector and India's electrical equipment industry is expected to play a ...
In the recently published study, the market research institute Ceresana comprehensively analyzes and describes the development of the global market for styrene. Styrene is an important product in the petrochemical industry and used to ...
Russian pig iron and coking coal producer KOKS Group has announced that it is continuing negotiations to sell some of its Kemerovo-based assets, including the Vladimirskaya and Romanovskaya-1 coal mines, and a license to develop the ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy, iron
Bassett Furniture Inds.says it will invest$1.5 million in a three-year expansion in Henry County,Va.,aimed at growing the company's custom casual dining business. A key part of the project will add 5,000 square feet of manufacturing at ...
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Food processor Michael Foods has commenced work on a $33m expansion at its Wakefield, Nebraska, farm and processing plant. The two-phase project includes expansion of the facilities and installation of new equipment. In the first phase, ...
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The annual production capacity in the bioplastics market is expected to increase from about 1.4 million tonnes in 2012 to almost 6.2 million tonnes in 2017, finds a study conducted by European Bioplastics, in collaboration with the ...
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Mercedes-Benz’s global sales outstripped premium rival Audi last month, on the back of the luxury car maker’s success with its new range of small cars. Mercedes-Benz sold 133,441 vehicles in November, just ahead of ...
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Asked where the focus for developments is on blister packaging lines, Bernd Webel, sales director with? Romaco, is unequivocal in his response: "Romaco Noack focuses on the constant improvement of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) ...
Tags: Blister Packaging, Innovation