Tate & Lyle, a British food and beverage firm, is planning to invest around $90m in its production plants in Lafayette, Indiana over the next three years. The investment will be used in the three-phased expansion of Tate & Lyle's ...
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Private equity firm Arbor Investments has completed the sale of its Fund I portfolio company Truco Enterprises, a producer of tortilla chips, salsa and queso, to Insignia Capital Group for an undisclosed amount. Truco, which was founded ...
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LatticePower Corp of Nanchang, China, which claims to be the first company to commercialize GaN-on-silicon LED lighting, has announced an $80m initial round of Series D equity financing led by Asia Pacific Resources Development Investment ...
Tags: GaN-on-silicon, LED lighting
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, says that its expanded sales force ...
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The PC industry has recently started regaining momentum with Intel, AMD as well as Taiwan-based upstream component suppliers aggressively preparing for potential demand in the second half of 2014, according to sources from the upstream ...
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Dunelm Group plc today released an update on trading for the final quarter of its financial year to 28th June 2014, and for the 52 weeks ending on that date. Over the full financial year, total sales grew by 7.8% and like-for-like sales by ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Villacero, Mexico's largest steel distributor, announced this week that it has signed an agreement with Finnish steelmaker Ruukki to distribute special steel products in Mexico, marking the 30th country in which the European firm has a ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
For first-quarter 2014, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed ...
China's massive investments in LED manufacturing capacity are paying off, with a Chinese company entering the top 10 global ranking (by revenue) of packaged LED makers for the first time, according to the IHS LED Intelligence Service of ...
Tags: LED, LED Market, LED Suppliers
PPG Industries has announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Consorcio Comex, S.A. de C.V. ("Comex"), an architectural and industrial coatings company with headquarters in Mexico City, Mexico. The transaction is valued ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
The Dow Chemical Company will begin construction of its previously announced world-scale ethylene production facility, representing a prominent milestone in delivering on its strategy to invest in its performance-based portfolio of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, tawian, ethylene production
The recycling of beverage cartons in Europe has reached 42% in 2013, according to new data provided by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE). Compared to 2012, it represents a 3% rise, while the total recovery rate, ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, beverage cartons
China's massive investments in LED manufacturing capacity are paying off, with a China-based company entering the top ranks of the global market for the first time ever, according to IHS. China's MLS Electronics in 2013 rose to the number ...
Tags: LED manufacturing, LED production
PepsiCo has established Baking Category Innovation Center in Nuevo Leon, Mexico to expand the company’s research and development arm. The new center in Apodaca is a part of PepsiCo's five-year plan to invest $5bn to strengthen its ...
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Amira Nature Foods, provider of packaged Indian specialty rice, has reported a 32.3% increase in its fiscal 2014 revenues to $547.3m, compared to $413.7m last year. Profit after tax for the full-year 2014 was also up 98.1% to $38.1m, ...
Tags: Nature Foods, packaged specialty