Improving safety and saving time are two major trends that hand tool manufacturers are focusing on in the marketplace. "We're getting a lot of traction in the industrial market for products that are designed for improved safety. A case in ...
Swedish producer of vegetable oils and fats solutions AAK has outlined plans to build a specialty and semi-specialty edible oils factory in China, with an estimated outlay of about $56.34m. To be built in Zhangjiagang along the Yangtze ...
Tags: Edible Oils, AAK, vegetable oils
To get more orders from global markets, Bangladeshi apparel exporters should concentrate on manufacturing more value added products, South Korean envoy to Bangladesh said. Bangladeshi textile and apparel industry should move beyond ...
Tags: Apparels
A ‘Research and Education’ zone will feature the world’s first liquid ammonia processing technology for knitted fabrics at Interstoff Asia Essential – Autumn 2014, set to return to the Hong Kong Convention and ...
Tags: Liquid Ammonia Fabric, Interstoff
Australian vegetable and potato growers’ representative body AusVeg has called for Australia to follow the UK’s lead and put in place a plan to source government-procured food from local suppliers and producers. UK Prime ...
Tags: Australian, AusVeg, Food
Georg Bechter launches new LED line, Verve, with its original basic function – bathing the room in light! The simple lighting units are smoothed flush into plasterboard as concealed lighting elements and so can blend in subtly with ...
Tags: Georg Bechter, LED Line, Furniture
Global production of digitally printed textiles is growing at an annual rate of 25 percent and at present, digitally printed textiles account for just 2 percent of total printed textile production worldwide and are expected to account for 5 ...
Tags: Printed Textiles, Textile
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (to 28 June 2014), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $316.3m, up 23.6% on $256m last quarter and up 8% on $293m a year ago (and well above the $305m forecast at the ...
Tags: RFMD, Micro Devices
For fiscal third-quarter 2014 (ended 27 June), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $587m, up 22% on $481m last quarter and 34.6% on $436.1m a year ...
Tags: Skyworks, semiconductors
Coca-Cola Amatil is not only one of the biggest beverage companies in this market, but its move into blowfill production now makes it a significant packaging player in the Australasian region, with the sustainability commitment to match. ...
By September 30th, new toy safety requirements for all music toys will come into effect. An amendment to the EU toy safety standard is causing reverb among toy suppliers as a new scope of testing sets out to scrutinise all musical ...
Tags: Safety Amendment, Reverb, Toys
The results, for the three months and six months ending 30 June 2014, revealed robust capital structure with annualised cash interest reduced to €135m Additionally, interim dividend increased by 50% to 15.375 cent, which SKG said ...
Tags: Smurfit Kappa, SKG, Packaging
Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services UK has developed testing capabilities for allergenic disperse dyes—organic dyes of low water solubility that are suitable for dyeing fibres such as polyester, nylon and acrylic. The ...
Viewing that total capacity of distributed PV systems installed around China so far in 2014 is far less than its 2014 target, China's National Energy Administration (NEA) plans to adjust subsidies from the original requirement that ...
Groupe Michelin posted net income of 624 million euros on net sales of more than 9.6 billion euros for the first half ending June 30, 2014. That compares to income of 507 million euros on sales of more than 10.1 billion euros for the first ...
Tags: Groupe Michelin, Income, Auto Parts