No matter how you look at it, suppliers who imported bikes lost business through August. Total imports were down almost 2 million bikes, a 15 percent drop in units, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Commerce Department. ...
Tags: imported bikes, kids'bikes
Novelis Inc. completed its US$200 million expansion to its aluminum manufacturing plant in Oswego this week. The expansion added 240,000 tons of capacity to produce aluminum auto sheet for Novelis and added more than 100 jobs at the ...
The associate marketing agreement will allow Clondalkin Group to further strengthen its growing Specialist Packaging Pharma & Healthcare business by realising new opportunities across Europe. Grafiche Pizzi is a specialist manufacturer ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, pharmaceutical, cosmetics industry
No matter how you look at it, suppliers who imported bikes lost business through August. Total imports were down almost two million bikes, a 15 percent drop in units and $53.3 million loss in business, according to the latest figures from ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Beverage carton recycling has increased by 2% during 2012 to reach 39% in the EU, Norway and Switzerland compared to 2011, according to a new report from The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE). The report noted that ...
Tags: Beverage carton, Carton Recycling
Candler, N.C.-based Jacob Holm Industries (America) Inc. — the U.S. subsidiary of Switzerland-based spunlaced and composite nonwoven roll goods manufacturer Jacob Holm & Sons AG — is investing more than $45.9 million over the ...
Tags: Textile, composite nonwoven
Apple has announced the iPad Air featuring a 9.7-inch Retina display. Weighed one pound, iPad Air is 20% thinner and 28% lighter than the fourth-generation iPad, and with a narrower bezel the borders of iPad Air are thinner. Apple has ...
BASF, the world's leading chemical company and the global leader in Plastic Additives, has successfully completed the expansion of its antioxidant capacity in Singapore. Irganox 1010 is now produced at BASF’s site along with other ...
Tags: Antioxidants Production
Swiss insurance and pension firm the Baloise Group has embarked on an agreement to divest its businesses in Croatia and Serbia to the Austrian UNIQA Group, in a EUR75m worth transaction. In Croatia, 'Basler osiguranje Zagreb' offers an ...
Tags: insurance, UNIQA Group
As part of a strategy to take advantage of the trade agreement between Colombia and the European Union (EU), the Colombian agency for Promotion of Tourism, Investment and Exports (Proexport) will be organizing a multi-sector Business ...
Swiss food giant Nestlé has announced its commitment to achieve zero waste in all of its 150 European factories by 2020. The environmental sustainability pledge was made at a European Policy Centre event on food sustainability in ...
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Italian sports car manufacturer Lamborghini has introduced its new open-top version, called Lamborghini Veneno Roadster, at the 2013 Geneva motor show in Switzerland. The company will produce only nine units of this model, which is based ...
Tags: Lamborghini, Veneno Roadster
Wonga, the much-criticised payday loan provider, is branching out into payments with the acquisition of Germany's BillPay for an undisclosed sum. The move will pit Wonga directly against PayPal, the eBay-owned giant of online payments. It ...
Tags: Service
Nestlé's growth has "regained momentum", with Europe outperforming the market, according to ceo Paul Bulcke, commenting on nine month sales figures. Nescafé Dolce Gusto gained market share from January to September this ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Nestlé
In response to the growing financial impact and frequency of product recalls for food and beverage manufacturers, distributors and importers in the U.S. and Europe, American International Group (AIG) today launched NOVI, a web-based service ...