Driven in large part by the rapid expansion of shale oil and gas drilling and production in North America, the world market for oil field specialty chemicals at the service company level reached $25 billion in 2014, up from nearly $16 ...
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Canned vegetable products manufacturer McCall Farms is planning to open a new production facility in Effingham, South Carolina. When operational this month, the facility will expand the company's existing Florence County operations, while ...
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Mexico-based producer and processor of poultry and other food products Industrias Bachoco will acquire the breeding assets in the State of Georgia of Morris Hatchery, a US company. In 2013, Bachoco acquired the breeding assets in the ...
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Using its its proprietary modified Kyropoulos (KY) method, Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia, which manufactures large-diameter sapphire substrates and cores for LED, optical product and RFIC applications (as well as screen printing ...
Oxford Instruments says that several PlasmaPro 800 plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) systems have been ordered by China's Enraytek Optoelectronics Co for manufacturing high-brightness LEDs. Enraytek's key products are ...
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched the XLamp XHP35 family of LEDs, which yields 50% more light output than Cree's previous highest-performing single-die LED, setting a new performance standard for the 3.5mm footprint. Built on ...
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Pan-European investment firm Aurelius Group has purchased UK-based compounder and recycler of post-use rigid plastics Regain Polymers Holdings. Previously owned by Chamonix Private Equity, Regain provides plastic recycling services to ...
Japanese automotive giant Honda Motor has initiated the output of its Accord sedan in the African nation Nigeria, the country on which the company is betting big for the expansion of automobile market in future. Honda's Nigerian unit ...
Colorado Cider Company is now releasing four of its most popular ciders in fourpacks of 12-ounce bottles. Previously available only in 22-ounce "bomber" bottles, Glider Cider, Glider Dry, Grasshop-Ah and Cherry Glider fourpacks are now ...
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Deccan Auto has set up its first integrated bus manufacturing unit in Hyderabad, India, entailing an investment of $39m. The plant, with an annual installed capacity of 3,000 units a year, is sprawled over 18 acres with a covered area of ...
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On the sidelines of Taipei Innovative Textile Application Show, the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) in partnership with the Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF) will organise the ICAC International Seminar 2015. “The theme ...
China auto association downgrades growth rate China's vehicle sales plunged deeper in June, forcing the country's leading auto organization to slash the industry's estimated growth rate. Statistics from the China Association of ...
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New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra has inaugurated its new facility at Heerenveen in Netherlands, which is its first wholly owned and operated ingredients plant in Europe. The firm has formed a partnership with Dutch cheese ...
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Denmark-based injection moulded plastic packaging firm RPC Superfos has begun production at its new manufacturing facility in Winchester, Virginia. The plant began with the production of UniPak for pastry company Poppies Intl. Equipped ...
Tags: plastic packaging, packaging machine, plastic bag, RPC Superfos, robotics
Japanese automotive giant Honda will adopt a twin-pronged strategy, involving the promotion of a global operation framework across six regions and designing challenging products. This has been disclosed by new Honda president and CEO ...
Tags: green vehciles, auto parts, Honda, Honda's Nigeria unit