Taipei, Oct.11, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan's 1,004 listed manufacturers spent some NT$148.9 billion (US$4.96 billion) in R&D in the first half, up 0.7% year on year (YoY), with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) leading with NT$18.4 ...
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Mars Chocolate today (25 September) opened a new GBP6m (US$9.8m) research and development facility in Slough. The company said that the "state of the art" site would be responsible for delivering new products to European markets and ...
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Sabra Dipping Co., the dips venture run by PepsiCo and Israeli food group Strauss, is to set up an R&D facility in the US. The company is spending US$28m on a facility in Chesterfield County in Virginia. Strauss decided to run its US ...
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Food giant Heinz has appointed Lee Rolston to the role of director for its Explore UK & Ireland division. Rolston, who joins Heinz from Muller Dairy where he was marketing director, will head up the firm's Explore team, created earlier ...
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Global snacks group Mondelez International has revealed an R&D site in New Jersey is still closed in the wake of the super storm Hurricane Sandy that swept across the eastern parts of the US this week. Food manufacturers that shut ...
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Hittite Microwave Corp(which designs and supplies analog,digital and mixed-signal RF,microwave and millimeter-wave ICs,modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation)is to create 30 new jobs by establishing two operations in Cork as part ...
US companies accounted for 57% of worldwide semiconductor R&D spending in 2011 Worldwide investment on semiconductor research and development (R&D) is expected to grow by 10% in 2012 to $53.4bn compared to $48.7bn in 2011, according to IC ...
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Campbell Soup Co. is looking to "accelerate" NPD in baking and snacking with a new R&D site in the US. The US$30m development in Connecticut opened yesterday (12 September). The company said it wanted to "drive continued innovation and ...
Indian designer and manufacturer of packaging materials Nichrome has opened its new research and development (R&D) facility in a bid to develop and set new standards to scale up the country's packaging industry. The new R&D centre ...
Japanese carmaker Honda's automobile production and sales subsidiary in Brazil, Honda Automoveis do Brasil (HAB), is planning to invest BRL100m ($49.29m) its automobile R&D division through the next two years. The investment, aimed at ...
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India-based Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has opened a new research and development (R&D) centre for two wheelers in Pune, India, for which the company has invested Rs1bn ($18.05m). Over the next five years, the company is also planning to ...
EV Group (EVG) a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, announced the completion of its newly expanded cleanroom IV facility at its corporate headquarters in ...
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Frutarom,an Israel-based ingredient company,plans to set up a R&D and innovation center and a production facility for taste and health natural products in Israel with an investment of$30m. The company said that it received approval from ...
General Motors (GM) of Canada is investing $850m in its research and development (R&D) activities at the Canadian Engineering Centre in Oshawa, Ontario between 2009 and 2016. According to the GM, the investment will offer long-term ...
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Global idea-to-mold provider R&D/Leverage has announced the launch of its new Opti-Sim Virtual Prototyping tool, which lets PET packagers anticipate a bottle concept's impact on engineering, operations and marketing. R&D/Leverage ...
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