The Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) has opposed the government’s plan to impose sales tax on cotton in the 2015-16 Budget to mobilise PKR 50 billion in revenue, the Pakistani media has reported. KCA chairman Amin Hashwani ...
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GaN-on-GaN technology can be used to grow blue-light laser as a source of lighting with luminous efficiency of 220lm/W, said 2014 Nobel laureate in physics Shuji Nakamura in a speech given inTaipei recently. Nakamura, currently a ...
American craft ale producer Worthy Brewing Company has announced the release of a new canned craft ale called Prefunk Pale Ale. Developed as a a core Northwest American Pale, the new ale is made with Citra and Amarillo hops, featuring 6% ...
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In the six months to February 2015, revenue surged 24.2 per cent, while operating profit zoomed 40.2 per cent, both from a year ago periods, at Japanese apparel marketer Fast Retailing. Fast Retailing which owns the Uniqlo brand, said ...
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Nut milks in Australia appear to be on the rise, with almond milk in particular experiencing very strong growth. Both traditional dairy milks and milk alternatives, including soy and grain milk, are expected to grow in the next five ...
Tags: Nut Milks, Soy Milk, Analog Sector
The full financial year ending September 2014 saw TCL exceed the £10m sales barrier for the first time, capping off a record year with sales growth at over 10%. Sales figures have continued at this level for the first six months of ...
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Archivists in east China's Nanjing City are busying preparing for China's first exhibition on a Soviet Union air squadron that volunteered to help China drive out invading Japanese troops during World War II. The show will be staged in ...
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Mississippi based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. and Rose Acre Farms, Inc. based in Seymour, Indiana have entered into a joint venture called Red River Valley Egg Farm, LLC, to build and operate a shell egg production complex in Texas. To be ...
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According to PPG, contractors can now achieve invisible wall repairs in less time than traditional hopper gun repair methods with the HOMAX line of PRO GRADE wall textures products for orange peel and knockdown surfaces. Combining the ...
Brazilian dairy group Quatá Alimentos has invested in six filling machines from SIG Combibloc to expand its production capacity. SIG and Quatá have been working together since 2012 when two SIG Combibloc filling machines, ...
The middle school and high school teams must launch their rockets at least a mile in the air, deploy onboard science experiments, and land safely using a system of recovery parachutes. This may be a simple task for NASA engineers, but it is ...
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IBM has signed a multimillion-dollar agreement with Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) to move its Asia Pacific customer planning and relationship management systems to the IBM Cloud. Hosting the workloads in IBM’s two SoftLayer cloud centres in ...
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An increasing number of UK consumers are suffering from stress, sleep deprivation and a lack of energy, and are on the look out for ‘feel-good’ products, which could provide opportunities for food and beverage manufacturers, ...
Axalta Coating Systems launches Imron Hydro and Imron Elite in China. The two products are part of the Imron family of coatings that are designed to help commercial vehicle manufacturers and operators meet productivity goals and ...
US based chocolate and confectionary products manufacturer BBX Sweet, subsidiary of BBX Capital, has acquired the assets of Kencraft Candy. Established in 1969, Utah based Kencraft provides homemade hard candies in the US. It offers ...