Cargill has launched a newly expanded world class chocolate facility in Mouscron, Belgium that will increase the supply of Belgian chocolate. The €35 million investment doubles production capacity for a product range including dark ...
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US automobile major General Motors (GM) will pump in $245 million at its Orion Assembly unit in Michigan to launch new vehicles, creating 300 employment opportunities. With this, the investment made in the manufacturing unit reaches ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2015 (ended 3 May), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $320m, up 4.5% on about $306m both a year ago and last quarter. The ...
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The Indian Government has officially kicked off the preferential credit package of $300 million to promote India-Vietnam garment cooperation, the Vietnamese media has reported. India will invest in building an industrial park specialising ...
Fisker Automotive and Technology Group (FATG), which was purchased by China-based Wanxiang last year following its bankruptcy, will come up with a manufacturing unit in California, US, to revive its Karma hybrid electric car. The new ...
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After spending two years on Beijing's monthly ballot for car license plates, seen as the best way of curbing traffic congestion in the capital, my neighbor Jiao Wen finally decided to go electric to avoid what was starting to look like long ...
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Three all-electric and seven electric-hybrid buses, all of them provided by Swedish automobile major Volvo, has started plying on the nine-kilometer-long Route 55 between Lindholmen and Johanneberg in Gothenburg. All the vehicles, ...
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Microchip Technology has announced that Kia Motors is enriching its infotainment system with powerful smart-phone connectivity in its flagship Kia K900 luxury sedan, using Microchip's OS81110 Intelligent Network Interface Controller (INIC). ...
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Indonesian establishment GarudaFood will procure 10,000 tons of compound chocolate from Switzerland-based Barry Callebaut under a long-term supply agreement, whose implementation will begin from mid-2016. As per the agreed terms, the ...
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Unilever has followed its recent achievement of sending zero waste to landfill across its factory network with a peer movement focused on waste solutions. In London last week it brought together over 100 representatives from academia, ...
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The kit lets users create their own customisable videogames with a selection of physical building blocks. An initiative that allows kids to create their own videogames from physical building blocks has soared past its crowd-funding goal ...
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Beyond Meat has launched The Beast, a 100% plant-based, protein-packed, nutrient-dense burger. With 23 grams of protein and its Beyond Nutrient Blend of antioxidants, iron, calcium, vitamins B6, B12, & D, potassium, and DHA & ALA Omega ...
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At Intersolar Europe 2015 in Munich, Germany (10-12 June), nano-electronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium has announced a thin-film perovskite photovoltaic (PV) module with a solar energy power conversion efficiency of 8% measured ...
BGF Industries, a global manufacturer of woven and nonwoven materials from high performance fibers, is pleased to announce the latest innovation in thermoplastic composite material – PolyPreg. PolyPreg is a woven co-mingled ...
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There is some good news for garment factory workers. G7 leaders meeting in Bavaria have agreed to establish a new fund to help improve the global supply chain in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh in 2013 in which 1,137 ...
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