Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute, in conjunction with partner Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, has issued VDE Quality Tested (QT) Certification to cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film ...
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The European packaging specialist took the step following the news earlier this year that nine out of ten British consumers are regularly gripped by ‘wrap-rage’ – frustration with impenetrable or poorly functioning food ...
PPG Industries' packaging coatings business has announced that INNOVEL HPS coatings, the next generation of internal protective spray lacquers for the beverage can industry, has been approved for use on aluminum and steel beverage cans. ...
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The Comexi Group, supplier of converting solutions for the flexible packaging industry, will install its Offset CI8 printing press at CCL Label’s plant in Vlkermarkt, Austria. Capable of carrying fast design changes along with ...
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Bloomer Plastics, which is owned by private equity firm Huron Capital Partners, has acquired Ohio-based high barrier coextruded blown films manufacturer, Optimum Plastics The company said that the acquisition was directly aligned with its ...
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CVD Equipment Corp of Central Islip, NY, USA (a designer and maker of equipment for developing and manufacturing electronic components, materials and coatings for research and industrial applications) has appointed Dr Steven Aragon to the ...
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The decade of the 1950s saw women's clothing in China lose all aesthetic significance after the founding of New China. After experiencing the Great Leap Forward [*note] and the People's Communalization Movement [*note], Chinese women's ...
In the year 1920 in China, women still bound their breasts and those who wore low-cut clothing revealing even the slightest bit of skin risked being arrested by outraged authorities. But only seven years later, the Chinese government ...
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The full decade of the Cultural Revolution movement from 1966 to 1976 saw China's fashion go underground, buried under a sea of grass green army uniforms and Mao suits. But by the end of the year 1976, the winter of fashion discontent was ...
INVISTA, one of the world’s largest integrated producers of fibers and polymers and owner of the LYCRA® fiber brand has launched its new consumer campaign, the roll-out to markets around the world of which began in September. ...
Audi RS 7 concept car has been showcased at the Grand Prix track in Hockenheim in Germany. The car is equipped with 560-horsepower engine and can reach a top speed of 190 miles per hour. Audi used specially corrected GPS signals which ...
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At the 30th anniversary AUSPACK in 2015, next gen processing machinery will be one of the major areas of interest. According to Luke Kasprzak, portfolio director, Industrial Division, Exhibition and Trade Fairs, “companies such as ...
XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, has begun to bundle a commercial ...
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In the presence of the Republic of Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean Senate’s President Isabel Allende and Minister of Energy Máximo Pacheco, cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker ...
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Aganga, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, said he was impressed with the level of investment the firm had made and asked for more investments into the economy. He described the paper packaging facility as unique and the first of ...
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