Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/29/2013 9:52:04 AM By Larry Dworkin, director, government relations, PAC-The Packaging Assn. EDITOR'S NOTE: Packaging Digest's recent webcast "Food Safety & ...
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The European Commission launched an investigation on Saturday into industry claims that Chinese makers of solar glass benefit from illegal subsidies, notching up another case against its No. 2 trading partner. The inquiry follows a ...
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US-based agri-processing company Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is close to complete the acquisition of Australia's largest grain exporter after GrainCorp accepted its A$2.8bn ($2.95bn) takeover bid. Under the terms of the deal, ADM agreed ...
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Methanex Corporation announced that it has reached a final investment decision to proceed with the relocation of a second one million tonne per year methanol plant from its Chile site to Geismar, Louisiana. The plant is expected to be ...
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Global shipments of metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) systems will fall by 46% year-on-year to a total of 148 units in 2013, forecasts a report by Digitimes Research, as LED chipmakers have sufficient capacity and the number ...
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Overwhelming global demand may limit initial supplies of the Galaxy S4 smartphone, Samsung said Wednesday, while both Sprint and T-Mobile USA confirmed there would be delays. T-Mobile said the GS4 was scheduled to go on sale online at its ...
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Global demand for robots is forecast to increase nearly 11% per year through 2016 to $20.2 billion, outpacing both the world’s economy and overall manufacturing activity. The United States is projected to grow at more than 15% per ...
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Why it is that we are only now starting to appreciate the value of big data and where all this data comes from, asks Matthew Caffrey, general manager at Chesterfield-based embedded systems supplier, DSP Design. With the advent of the ...
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Swedish high-technology engineering and steelmaking group Sandvik has issued its financial results for the first quarter of 2013, stating that global demand for Sandvik's products displayed a mixed trend during the first quarter. Some ...
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Production by the world's largest diamond producer De Beers has been consistently going down past many years and as a result now India's DTC (Diamond Trading Company, rough diamond distribution arm of De Beers) sightholders are facing acute ...
Indonesia is betting on its textile industry for withstanding competition in the Asean Economic Community (AEC), to be formed in 2015, Industry Ministry MS Hidayat said. Speaking on the sidelines of a national meeting of the Indonesian ...
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US-based precision healthcare equipment company Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the launch of a new X-ray detection platform. The new Thermo Scientific NextGuard system is equipped with intuitive software and has been designed to ...
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Energized by a surge of shipments in Asia, the global PV inverter market in 2012 bucked weak worldwide solar industry conditions to expand by 5% and break the US$7 billion level for the first time. Global PV inverter market revenue last ...
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The Rieter Group held its own in 2012 against difficult market conditions worldwide. Order intake for the year as a whole declined by 12% to 839.7 million CHF, although Rieter received more orders in the second half-year than in the first. ...
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Germany's Osram is launching a new LED light bulb that costs less than 10 euros ($13.10) to battle rivals, such as Cree and Samsung Electronics, for a share of the fast-growing market. LED - known for lighting flat ,screen televisions and ...
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