China-based investment firm Legend Holdings has signed a strategic agreement with Australian seafood company Kailis Family. Under the agreement, Legend Holdings and Kailis Family will form a joint venture named KB Food Group, in which ...
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PowerBar has introduced new reduced sugar ProteinPlus 20g bars and Simple Fruit energy food for athletes. PowerBar ProteinPlus 20g bars are available in lemon poppy seed and chocolate peanut butter flavors. It offers 20g of protein, 3g ...
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Swedish car company Volvo announced that it will be testing its autonomous vehicles in China with local drivers and on public roads in every day driving conditions. For this experiment, Volvo will use 100 autonomous cars. In the ...
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Tata Motors has launched Tiago, a hatchback for the Indian market after changing its original name Zica, as it was sounding similar to Zika virus. The Indian automaker changed the name of the car to Tiago through a contest conducted on ...
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Flavored beverages producer Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) has purchased an additional stake in BA Sports Nutrition, makers of premium sports drinks line Bodyarmor. The firm has invested an additional $6m to increase its stake from the ...
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Tekni-Plex has completed acquisition of Sancap Liner Technology, a manufacturer of cap and closure sealing materials to the global market. Sancap is a producer of heat-seal, pressure-sensitive and gasket-sealing liners for ...
Packaging machinery firm Rotoflex has received a contract to supply die-cutting machines to local label printer firm N & R Labels. As per the contract, South African provider of label & printing systems SArepco will serve as the ...
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Kruger Packaging has selected ABB to provide engineered solution and services for a paper machine rebuild project at Trois-Rivières Mill in Quebec, Canada. Kruger Packaging is investing C$250m ($188.6m) to convert the No. 10 ...
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Ford announced that it will be investing $1.6b in San Luis Potosi in Mexico to build small cars. Construction of this factory is expected to begin in mid-2016 and the production is scheduled to begin in 2018. The American automaker ...
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Ford has invested $170m at its Silverton Assembly plant in Pretoria, South Africa to manufacture new Ford Everest and Ford Ranger. The American car-maker says that this investment will create about 1200 jobs in Ford South Africa and in ...
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PAC Machinery, a manufacturer of equipment and materials for the flexible packaging industry, has integrated its Rollbag Systems R1275 automatic bagger with Data Detection Technologies’ advanced vision counting system. The firm has ...
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MARTENS Brewery is leveraging their Direct Print industrial scale digital printing technology from KHS to renovate the look and feel of their own brand, MARTENS Pils, by eliminating labels altogether resulting in a visually appealing, ...
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Jaguar announced that it will rebuild its classic and iconic supercar XKSS as an ultra-exclusive continuation model. This supercar from the British luxury carmaker is considered to be one of the first supercars will be hand built to ...
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Anchor Packaging, in partnership with Metaphase, has launched Safe Pinch, a new line of tamper-evident food containers to meet the growing demand for to-go packaging. Jointly developed over a 2-year period, the Safe Pinch packaging is ...
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US demand for food containers is projected to increase 2.8% per year to more than $31bn in 2020. Major trends include a general shift from rigid packaging formats to flexible containers, efforts to improve both the reality and optics of ...