Samworth Brothers’ is building a new food manufacturing facility that will create up to 700 jobs in Leicestershire. Samworth Brothers claims to be the UK’s biggest savoury pastry producer The food manufacturing giant has ...
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China's sudden cuts to rare earth export quotas and domestic production marked the beginning of a Rare Earth Economic War, proposes Jacob Securities' Senior Mining and Metals Analyst Luisa Moreno. The good news is that partnerships between ...
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Wine Rack Store, an online retailer specializing in selling pre-made and custom-built wine racks, wine cellars and wine accessories, is relocating its manufacturing facility from South Olympia to the downtown marina in Washington. The new ...
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Malaysia based Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua (Perodua) is planning to invest RM790m ($253.8m) to set up a vehicle plant in near its current manufacturing facility in Rawang, Selangor. The new plant will produce 100,000 vehicles per year on a ...
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Production of LED chips is typically done on 2- to 4-inch wafers with an expensive sapphire substrate. Toshiba and Bridgelux, Inc. have developed a process for manufacturing gallium nitride LEDs on 200mm silicon wafers, which Toshiba has ...
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China Sunergy Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of solar cells and modules, today announced that the company has set up a new manufacturing facility in Istanbul, Turkey with local partner Seul Energy Investment Corp., a solar system provider, solar ...
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The acquisition of Premier Foods’ East Anglian canning business has helped to boost the sales figures growth of food and drink manufacturer Princes by 28%, according to figures filed at Companies House last week (December 12). ...
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Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo: 6502) announced that the company will start sales of white light-emitting diode (LED) packages that offer makers of general purpose and industrial LED lighting solutions a cost-competitive alternative to current ...
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US-based automaker Ford is planning to invest about $773m on new equipment and capacity expansions in its six manufacturing facilities in southeast Michigan, US. The investment is a part of company's plan to invest $6.2bn in the US-based ...
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Energy.gov reported that senior Advisor in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Mr Gil Sperling joined local officials and company representatives for the ribbon cutting ceremony and tour of the ArcelorMittal steel ...
Indian automobile manufacturer Maruti Suzuki is considering building its first vehicle assembly plant in Africa to boost exports. Maruti Suzuki India chairman R.C. Bhargava told Bloomberg that firm is in search of new markets and Africa ...
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Luxembourg-registered Element Six (which is part of the De Beers Family of Companies and is co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has opened its first US manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley (in Santa Clara, CA), as part of its ...
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Abacus Lighting has been chosen to illuminate a new airport in China. The Kunming New International Airport is the country's largest new airport construction project and is due to be completed in early 2012. The airport is a replacement ...
Taiwan-based sapphire substrate makers believe December revenues are likely to show a continuous decrease due to the low season and year-end inventory checks by downstream LED firms. Taiwan-based Crystalwise and Sino Sapphire will ...
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Alcoa Wheel and Transportation has opened a new state-of-the-art aluminum wheel facility in Suzhou, China. The new facility is part of a full wheel manufacturing, distribution, sales and service network in China. This is the first wheel ...
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