Semiconductor packaging solutions provider Kulicke & Soffa (K&S) has opened a new process and applications laboratory at its facility in the City of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The 180m2 laboratory and adds to the company’s ...
Tags: packaging, refining packaging
General Motors (Gm) said it will invest $14m on a new facility in San Francisco for Cruise Automation to accelerate the development of autonomous cars. GM acquired the driverless tech startup last March. The new R&D facility, which is ...
A new €8.1m five-year research and innovation program, focusing specifically on meat processing, has been launched at the Teagasc Ashtown Research Centre in Dublin. Dubbed as Meat Technology Ireland (MTI), the program has been ...
Tags: Beef, Sheep Meat
China's crude refinery throughput in March rose 5.9% year on year to 47.5 million mt, or an average of 11.23 million b/d, preliminary data released Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics showed. This was the highest year-on-year ...
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Constellium has installed a new recycling furnace at its Muscle Shoals, Alabama facility to expand recycling capabilities in North America. The now fully operational furnace is expected to increase the total recycling output by 170 ...
Tags: Furnace, Recycling Capabilities
Delicato Family Vineyards (Delicato) has introduced Earth Wise Vineyards Red Wine Blend, its first three-liter bag-in-box wine made with organically grown grapes from Spain. Earth Wise Vineyards Red Wine Blend is certified organic by the ...
Minnesota Twins and Eco-Products have collaborated once again to turn trash into compost similar to last year. After turning 300 tons of trash into fertile soil last year, the Minnesota Twins and Eco-Products plan to top that number this ...
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Scholle IPN has opened a new advanced 6,000ft2 flexible packaging facility in Palghar, India, in a bid to provide better services for the customers. The 6,000ft² facility has been installed with 25 injection molding machines and ...
2 Sisters Food Group is planning to close its Smethwick poultry processing facility in the West Midlands, which could impact 630 jobs. The ageing poultry factory located at Bevan Way in the Alpha Business Park has considerable challenges ...
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Toyota is spending $1.33bn at its Kentucky manufacturing facility as part of its plan to invest $10bn in the US over the next five years. The move adds to the $530m invested in 2013 to support the production of Lexus. With the present ...
Cosmo Films has unveiled plans to install a new production line at its Waluj plant site in Aurangabad, located in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Cosmo Films will invest up to Rs250crores ($37m) to build the new production line, which ...
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US-based rigid packaging supplier Silgan has completed the acquisition of WestRock Company’s specialty closures and dispensing systems business for $1.025bn. The business is engaged in supplying triggers, pumps, sprayers and ...
US-based PPG has opened a nearly $3m expansion for packaging coatings manufacturing at its Oak Creek facility in Wisconsin. As part of the expansion project, the firm added a new 3,300ft² facility to produce food-can coatings to help ...
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VPK Packaging is investing €20m to improve both the quality and capacity of the firm's corrugated packagin solutions, in response to growing customer demand. A brand new corrugator and an additional boxmaker were already brought into ...
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Sharp Clinical Services is investing £9.5m on new multiple-phase pharmaceutical manufacturing, packaging and distribution facility in Wales, UK. The Welsh Government is also investing £500,000 in the project, will help the ...
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