Industrial, consumer and protective packaging provider Sonoco will be investing $11.8m in building a research and development facility for consumer packaging products in Hartsville. The company has already commenced the construction of ...
Packaging machine company Theegarten-Pactec will be showcasing its new design-optimized CWM2 packaging machine for chocolate products at this year's IPACK-IMA, scheduled to be held from May 19-23 in Italy. The machine has been designed ...
China's long-established culinary traditions, vast territory and abundant resources contribute to the country's unique food culture. As a brand representative of China-made rice cookers, Midea has a deep understanding of how to cater to the ...
One of the oldest ways to fertilise crops was “slash and burn” agriculture, where tropical forests are intentionally levelled and burned to create open space and nutrients for crops. In the US, this month’s innovation ...
Tags: Low Cost Fertiliser, Fertiliser
Berto SpA, the first Italian company to install a Montex stenter line with an integrated Eco Applicator from Monforts, has developed a wide range of new coating and colouring concepts for denim finishing. “Berto SpA is taking ...
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German textile accessory manufacturer Groz-Beckert will showcase its product and services at ShanghaiTex to be held from June 15-18, 2015 in Shanghai in hall W-1, booth B-50. “In the felting area, Groz-Beckert will display ...
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Thies has redesigned and upgraded its soft-TRD series of dyeing systems with the aim of offering resource-saving technology with even greater energy efficiency. According to Thies, the soft-TRD series has offered customers successful ...
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There is neither doubt nor dispute that the last financial year tested the grit and resourcefulness of the packaging industry. Tetra Pak achieved a 1.7% in sales nonetheless. Tetra Pak’s ‘challenging year’, the ...
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Charlotte based Spiroflow has acquired Food Control Solutions, systems integration and automation company in the food industry, for an undisclosed price. This new development combines the strength of Spiroflow's worldwide bulk material ...
Tags: Food Control Solutions, Charlotte's Spiroflow, food industry
Canada’s recycling rate of post-consumer plastic packaging has increased by 9% in a single year, according to the Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA). The country reportedly collected over 311 million kilograms of ...
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Salamander Designs, a leader in premium quality residential and contract AV Furniture, is pleased to announce that all four new models in its expanded AV Basic Cabinet line are now shipping. With the recent introduction of AV Basic Home ...
The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and Cote d'Ivoire's Conseil du Café-Cacao have reached an agreement to improve cocoa planting material. This new agreement is part of the Ivorian government's 2QC national cocoa strategy. WCF ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has used indium tin oxide (ITO) as part of the cladding for semi-polar indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) [A. Pourhashemi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p111105, 2015]. The ...
Tags: Indium, InGaN substrates, Electrical
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed gallium antimonide (GaSb) thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells on gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrates [Bor-Chau Juang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p111101, 2015]. The use of GaAs ...
Tags: TPV devices, lattice mismatch, Electronics
Anyone who has ever worked on equipment knows bearings can be a lot of work. First off, there are a lot of them. And on agricultural equipment, most bearings must be lubricated periodically to prevent them from wearing or seizing. But over ...
Tags: agricultural equipment, bearings, Processing Machinery