Italian intellectual property firm Bio-on has developed bioplastic material aimed at creating new sustainable and biodegradable food packaging materials in the future. Developed with a budget of €4m, the bioplastic will be featuring ...
United Caps stated that it will open a new manufacturing facility in Malaysia. The Luxembourg-based company plans to build a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to meet increasing customer demand in the region for its caps and ...
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Media reports suggest that Australia has won a landmark trade case related to plain packaging of tobacco products. A ruling from the World Trade Organization (WTO) yet to be published but leaked to a section of the media reveals that the ...
Tags: Tobacco, Plain Packaging
The long-awaited Samsung Pay mobile payments service could finally be making its way to the UK. Samsung has long offered a mobile payments platform – just like Apple Pay or Android Pay – around the world, but the UK is yet to ...
Packaging Corporation of America has reported first quarter 2017 net income of $117m or $1.24 per share and $1.27 per share excluding special items. First quarter net sales were $1.5 billion in 2017 and $1.4 billion in 2016. Reported ...
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On 31 March, South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd (SSC) filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Germany in the District Court of Düsseldorf against global electronic component distributor Mouser Electronics Inc asserting ...
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Esko, which provides solutions for the packaging, printing & publishing industries, has reported compliance with Ghent PDF Output Suite Version 5.0. The new Ghent Workgroup PDF Output Suite 5.0 is claimed to ensure that workflows are ...
China's apparent oil demand rose 5.3% year on year in the first two months of 2017 to 11.65 million b/d on the back of robust economic growth, holiday transportation demand and efforts to build stocks ahead of the refinery maintenance ...
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Japanese beer maker Asahi Group said it will take on EUR7.4bn in bank loans to finance its purchase of SABMiller's former Central & Eastern European beer assets. Asahi said its board agreed to the loan, from Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui and ...
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Electronics Flight Ban: What do the new US and UK rules for taking electronics on flights mean for travellers and their devices? Which airports, airlines, and countries are affected? Here's all you need to know about the ban, including all ...
Microsoft has agreed to license a batch of patents to Toyota to enhance connected car experience for consumers. Financial details of the agreement have not been disclosed. The deal will give Toyota access to a suite of in-car technologies ...
Waymo has filed a lawsuit against Uber and its subsidiary Otto for allegedly stealing key parts the self-driving technology. The self-driving subsidiary of Google claims that one of its former employees Anthony Levandowski had downloaded ...
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International technology group Andritz has purchased technology and intellectual property assets from Swedish firm Franssons Recycling Machines. Based in Sundsvall, Franssons Recycling manufactures and produces machinery for recycling ...
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General Motors (GM) and Honda are investing $85m each into a joint venture (JV) that intends to start mass production of hydrogen fuel cells by 2020. The JV, Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, will operate within GM's existing battery pack ...
The majority of Chinese people believe that home produced products have made great progress over the past decade, according to a survey conducted by China Youth Daily. In the survey of 2000 netizens, 65.1 percent of respondents say mobile ...
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