Temperature assurance packaging provider Sonoco ThermoSafe, a unit of Sonoco, has launched a new shipping solution for temperature-sensitive products called Envoy Direct series. Sonoco has developed the series to reduce dimensional ...
Tags: Shipping Solution, Agriculture
The China Australia Free Trade Agreement will further open China as an attractive marketplace for business and investment, with greater access to China’s $10 trillion economy which currently has a growth rate of around 7.7% per year. ...
The private hospital sector is an emerging part of China’s healthcare market, and is expected to maintain double-digit growth over the coming years, driven by regulatory changes, market demand and capital investments. Specialty ...
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Never mind the Scrooges out there now complaining about wall-to-wall Christmas TV ads – for contract packers the festive dash began months ago and isn’t far off being all wrapped up for another year. The pressure on factory ...
Global demand for decorative laminates is expected to rise 5.6 percent per year to 10.7 billion square meters in 2018, valued at $40.8 billion. Demand will benefit from expected increases in the manufacture of products such as cabinets, ...
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To begin the holiday season, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials toured the Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB) and met with staff to discuss the importance of food waste reduction as part of the agency’s Food Recovery ...
Tags: Food Bank, food waste reduction, Agriculture
By including five key items, Ashland Inc, posted a loss from continuing operations for the fourth fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2014 of $26 million, or $0.35 per diluted share. The fourth fiscal quarter of 2014 results include, five ...
Tags: key items, continuing operations, Apparel
One of the biggest global PTA producers, BP said it plans to invest over $200 million to upgrade its PTA plants at Cooper River, South Carolina and Geel, Belgium. “Once completed, the investments will position these assets amongst ...
The free trade agreement (FTA) to be signed by Australia and China is expected to provide the former's dairy farmers tariff-free access to the latter's infant formula market over the next four years. Australian Government sources were ...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping. Australian exporters are set to benefit from an historic trade agreement signed between Australia and its largest trading partner, China. This deal, which took nine years of negotiation, represents a victory ...
Tags: PTA, Australian exporters, agriculture
An unplanned manufacturing disruption of PO/MTBE, led to US based Huntsman Corporation reporting a lower adjusted EBITDA, from a year ago quarter, in the third quarter of 2014. Huntsman said adjusted EBITDA amounted to $356 million in ...
Costco Wholesale Corporation, an American warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise, has announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend on Costco common stock of 35.5 cents ...
Following on the 2012/2013 investment program and the resulting enhancement of its global presence, Rieter is setting new priorities in the implementation of its strategy, among which includes growing faster than the market. Rieter said ...
Intertek, one of the leading multinational inspection, product testing, and certification companies, headquartered in London, has launched Computer Aided Design (CAD) E-Fit Support Service in apparel manufacturing in Gurgaon city, India. ...
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Tageos, one of the leading RFID label makers for the apparel industry based in France, has signed an agreement with Round Rock Research LLC, a technology investigation and patent licensing company, for radio frequency identification (RFID) ...
Tags: RFID labels, RFID License, Textile