Cascades, a Canada-based firm that produces paper from recycled fibers, will close its Kraft paper manufacturing plant in the East Angus, Québec, effecting around 175 employees. The decision to close the plant, which will be ...
Tags: Cascades, Kraft paper, Packaging
Bebida Beverage, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of relaxation and energy products, announced the company's flagship product, KOMA Unwind Liquid Relaxation, its KOMA Unwind shots and Relax 5 shots will soon be available in one of the ...
Tags: Bebida Beverage, KOMA Unwind, Food
Color and inspection technology provider QuadTech is set to provide its closed-loop color control and color measurement systems for Switzerland-based Gallus Group’s offset, flexo and gravure presses. The QuadTech technology will ...
US-based Newell Rubbermaid has signed an agreement with North Castle Partners to acquire Ignite Holdings, for about $308m. In the inital year, the acquisition of the beverage containers designer is said to be accretive to Newell's growth ...
Ford’s European sales rose 6.6 percent in the first half of 2014 on the strength of new vehicle launches and an uptick in industry-wide sales. Ford's sales volume in its 20 traditional markets in Europe totalled 605,400 vehicles in ...
Tags: Ford, vehicle launches, Auto Parts
In the first half of the year, the strong performance of the Renault and Dacia brands in Europe, driven by the success of Clio, Captur, Duster phase 2 and Sandero, enabled the Group to offset the sharp slowdown in its main emerging markets. ...
Tags: Renault, Dacia, Auto Parts
Sweden-based food processing company AAK has agreed to acquire the Turkish frying oil brand Frita from Unilever. Frita is engaged in the frying oil segment in Turkey and covers a significant part of the local Food Service market. The ...
Philips' has announced its LED-based sales grew 43 per cent during Q2. This area now represents 36 percent of total lighting sales, compared to 25 per cent in Q2 2013. The Q2 report also shows lighting comparable sales increased 1 per ...
Epistar Corp (Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) is to issue 174.612 million new shares (worth NT$10 each, totalling NT$1746.12m) to acquire fellow Taiwanese LED epiwafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy Inc ...
Tags: LED epiwafers, LED chips
Zumtobel Group LED sales rose by 52.6 per cent compared to last year to €419 million. LED products now account for 33.6 per cent of revenues. These figures from the company’s 2013/14 financial results correlate with the ...
Tags: LED Sales, LED products, LED
Taiwan-based LED maker Epistar announced a merger with Formosa Epitaxy (Forepi) on June 30, 2014, with the former aiming to fully acquire the latter and become the surviving company. Epistar explained that the merger is meant to improve its ...
Tags: LED orders, epitaxial wafer, LED
Electronic cigarette consumers are now more quality conscious. They want something that is US produced so that they could somehow feel certain that their safety is secured while they are vaping. With this in mind, more and more ecigarette ...
Tags: Electronic Cigarette, e Cigarette, e-Cigarette, e cig
For first-quarter 2014, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed ...
The Canadian Paint and Coatings Association (CPCA) has announced that it is partnering with Smithers Rapra as a supporting association of this year's Pigment and Color Science Forum and TiO2 World Summit. This year the two long-standing ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Pigment, Coating
According to the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), in May this year the overall sales revenue of China's 80 large and medium-size steelmakers - all CISA members - totaled RMB 316.655 billion ($51.66 billion), down 0.53 percent month ...
Tags: Steelmakers, Iron, Steel