US-based beer brewer Pabst Brewing Company (PBC) has entered into a long-term distribution partnership with Vermont Hard Cider Company, which is manufacturer of American cider. The agreement entails that Vermont Hard Cider will sell ...
Bulgaria and the European Commission have agreed to establish a joint working group to support the development of a gas hub in Bulgaria designed to serve the whole Balkan region. Gas infrastructure in southeast Europe is poorly ...
Switzerland-based commodity trading house Trafigura said Monday that falling oil prices, significant volatility, structural oversupply and the emergence of contango price structures have created significant opportunities in the crude and ...
Tags: Trafigura, oil prices, crude oil
Charter NEX Films, a producer of high-performance polyethylene films, has completed the acquisition of Optimum Plastics, Inc. in an all-cash transaction for an undisclosed amount. Charter NEX supplies flexible packaging converters with a ...
Cree upgrades the campus of Thermo Fisher Scientific with LEDs and cuts up to 40% of the energy consumption per year. (Cree/LEDinside) After years of searching for the right partner to help implement LED lighting across its Asheville, ...
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In an exclusive interview with LEDinside, MLS General Manager Lawrence Lin discussed in-depth the company’s ongoing talks with German LED company Osram to acquire its lighting business at Taipei Building Show organized by Dollar ...
Tags: Osram, LED luminaire, LED lighting
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has signed a definitive ...
Tags: TowerJazz Panasonic, CMOS, Semiconductor
A report from Envision New Zealand revealed that grants from government to boost beverage container recycling have failed to reduce packaging waste in New Zealand. The InCENTive to Recycle report is calling for the reintroduction of a ...
As demand for exports continues to slip and the real estate sector cools, China expects consumption and the service sector to help pick slack. The nationwide shopping spree on Single's Day (Nov. 11) offered solid proof of the spending ...
Viewing that demand for crystalline silicon solar cells has been increasing, Taiwan- and China-based solar cell makers are expected to try their best to expand production capacities as soon as possible and consequently currently idle ...
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Premier Li Keqiang has pledged "firmer resolve and greater efforts" to tackle the long-standing problem of industrial overcapacity as "old growth drivers" such as manufacturing and investment continue to struggle. China is experiencing a ...
Tags: high-tech industries, Overcapacity
Supply chain logistics company Brambles has moved to 100 per cent ownership of keg logistics and distribution business Kegstar ahead of an expansion into the UK market. Brambles, which bought an initial 30 per cent in Kegstar in March ...
ASX-listed Collins Foods, which owns KFC and Sizzler restaurants in Australia, has reported profit growth for the six months ending the 18 October 2015. Total revenue was reported as AUD$269.7 million, a 5.1 per cent increase on the same ...
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Publicly-listed organic infant food producer Bellamy’s has entered into a multi-million dollar agreement with dairy producer Fonterra. The strategic agreement has been made for five years and Fonterra Oceania Managing Director ...
Tags: cheese, whey, nutritionals
Newmeat Co is born from the union of two companies with a long history of formulations and food powder blends production: Doscadesa and Premium Ingredients, the latter also part of Blendhub Corp group. The new company of Blendhub Corp. ...