In late March, on the 10 hectare former airstrip at the Gatton campus of The University of Queensland in Brisbane St Lucia, the 3.275MW Gatton Solar Research Facility (the state's largest solar array) was officially opened by Industry and ...
Tags: First Solar, Queensland, PV System
US wholesale energy provider Southern Power, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company, has acquired a controlling stake in the 32MW Lost Hills-Blackwell Solar Facility in California from cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic ...
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Kona Brewing Company has announced plans to invest $15mn for expansion of its brewery operations in Hawaii, US. The expansion plans include construction of a new 30,000ft2 brewery that would boost Kona's annual brewing capacity to ...
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Sales of Sinotruk products with MAN technology were increasing dramatically in the first quarter, and sales of T7H increased by 134.86% over last year, consolidating Sinotruk positions in China medium and high end truck markets, and sales ...
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Packaging films producer Thai Film Industries (TFI) is considering setting up a packing film factory in Bangladesh worth $40m. Based in Thailand, TFI specialises in producing BOPP, CPP films, polyethylene terephthalate and metalised ...
Finland’s Kotkamills has signed a €70m contract with Valmet, a technology, automation and services supplier and developer for the pulp, paper and energy industries, to convert its paper machine product from magazine paper to ...
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Packaging company Ardagh is almost said to have completed its €3bn acquisition of the glass packaging unit of Saint Gobain. Saint Gobain has been considering the sale of Verallia to focus on higher-margin home and construction ...
Tags: Glass Packaging, Packaging
BASF has partnered with Guangdong Yinfan Chemistry, to produce automotive refinish coatings and paints in China. Under the partnership, the companies will use BASF's formulas and technologies to produce automotive refinish coatings at ...
In 2014, Spanish apparel brand Mango clocked revenues of €2.01 billion, up 9.3 per cent over 2013, with 82 per cent of sales coming from overseas markets and the rest from Spain. Online turnover now accounts for 9.1 per cent of ...
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May design series which will held from May 17 to may 19 at excel London, the interior design show which spans the retail, residential, commercial and hospitality sector has just announced a packed conference and seminars across line up ...
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Based on the information released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, we can see that China’s coatings market in 2014 grew by around eight percent last year over 2013. And the fact that China’s architectural coatings ...
China-based Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd and the Huangpi District People's Government in Wuhan City have entered into an investment cooperation agreement to construct a gallium arsenide (GaAs) thin-film solar cell R&D and manufacturing ...
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Effective immediately, BASF and Neuss/Germany-based Gustav Grolman GmbH & Co. KG will start an exclusive collaboration in the marketing of amine-based curing agents of the Baxxodur® brand in Europe. Grolman will initially market the ...
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Global packaging company Sonoco will increase its production capabilities and support R&D innovation through several projects in the coming years. The company made the announcement at its annual shareholders meeting. Sonoco said that ...
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China will set up a pavilion at the World Expo 2015 in Milan that runs from May to October to further promote its business connections in sectors including agriculture, travel, culture and finance. Wang Jinzhen, vice-president of the ...
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