Freedom Foods has reported a Net profit of $55.2 million for the first half of the 2015 financial year. However, the Net Profit figure was boosted by the inclusion of a post-tax fair value gain of $52.2 million from the gain on ...
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Medtronic has seen its fair share of bad patent news of late. Last year, the company agreed to pony up more than $1 billion to settle patent litigation with Edwards Lifesciences. Now, the company stands to lose out on a significant cash ...
Tags: Medtronic, Medical Device
New Zealand based Fonterra Co-operative Group has started operating its new dairy ingredients plant in Heerenveen, the Netherlands. Located on a 25-hectare site, the new facility has been developed to produce whey and lactose specialty ...
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Fonterra expands with new plant in the Netherlands New Zealand-based dairy giant Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited (Fonterra) has commissioned its new dairy ingredients plant in Heerenveen, in the north of the Netherlands. The ...
Tags: Agriculture
LED maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that, following its complaint filed on 12 January, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has agreed to open an investigation into unfair trade practices by Feit Electric Company Inc and its ...
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Advanced Photonix Inc (API) of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) and Luna Innovations Inc of Roanoke, VA, USA (which ...
Volkswagen’s luxury automotive unit, Audi has acquired automotive-related fuel cell intellectual property worth $80m from Ballard Power Systems. Apart from buying the patents, Volkswagen and Ballard have also extended their ...
Geely is leading Chinese automakers in terms of innovative capacity, according to a report unveiled in late January by the intellectual property and science business of information provider Thomson Reuters. The report examined recent ...
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The southern Chinese city of Changsha launched an industrial park which poised to play a key role in the growth of Chinese technology. The development is China's first hub for 3D printing technology, and was established with an immediate ...
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USFloors has received a Notice of Allowance for its COREtec patent application. The Notice of Allowance, which is posted on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website, reads, "The application identified above has been examined ...
Tags: flooring product, Construction
Depite the weak recovery of the world economy and other adverse factors, this year SINOTRUK export orders has accumulated more than 21,000 vehicles which sold to 96 countries and regions. The export volumes is in the first place for ten ...
Tags: Heavy Trucks Export, IV emission standards, Transportation
For fiscal second-quarter 2015 (ended 28 December 2014), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $413.2m, down 3.4% on $427.7m last quarter but similar to $415.1m a year ago and in the upper half of the target range of $400-420m ...
Tags: LED Demand, LED Lighting Offsets, Electrical
Australia’s largest multi-brand retail food franchisor and leading wholesale coffee roaster, Retail Food Group Limited (RFG) has announced that it has partnered with Tian Jin Sen Yong Tai Co Limited, to establish a joint venture for ...
TDK Corporation announces that it has been selected as one of the 2014 Top 100 Global Innovators by Thomson Reuters (headquartered in New York with a Japan office in Minato-ku, Tokyo). This award is based on an analysis of patent ...
Murata Electronics North America Inc (a subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan) and Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA have celebrated the closing of Murata’s acquisition of Peregrine. To ...