Tokyo-based Solar Frontier - the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has begun commercial production at its 150MW Tohoku Plant in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Due to using ...
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Cargill's protein business headquarters will remain in Wichita and relocate from 151 North Main Street to a new office building which will be built at a yet-to-be-determined site within the city limits. The company's decision was made ...
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Custom packaging helps brands and businesses to enhance their brand value, increase sales, minimize returns, optimize costs and achieve 100% customer satisfaction. This is exactly what DCGpac has been helping businesses with. The company ...
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Linkx Packaging Systems have developed and installed four brand new, bespoke servo-driven pick and place tray systems in the company’s Gloucester plant in response to a request from Unilever Ice Cream UK to increase the efficiency of ...
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Volvo Cars has unveiled two new concept cars that move the Swedish brand in an audacious new direction and mark the official launch of its global small car strategy. Today's newly-revealed 40 series concepts demonstrate for the first time ...
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Vietnamese dairy firm Vinamilk has decided to eliminate its 49% foreign ownership limit to facilitate overseas investment into the company which is valued at $7.85bn. The company has not set a timeframe on when the current limit would be ...
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The UK’s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) has been selected to supervise the CarConnect plug-in vehicle (PIV) charging project. The project intends to help the electricity industry understand how (PIVs charge at home in harmony ...
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Scania will start delivering 51 hybridised Scania Citywide buses to Madrid in June. These complete buses feature cost saving and emission educing hybrid technology that meets the EU suburban and short distance Class II regulations. "We ...
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Honda Automobile (Thailand) has opened a THB17.15bn ($465m) production facility at Rojana Industrial Park in Prachinburi province. The new facility will have capacity to produce 120,000 units per year. Featuring a 214,000m2 of space, ...
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Global gold demand totaled 1,290 mt in the first quarter, up 21% from 1,070 mt a year earlier, as the biggest quarterly inflow into exchange-traded funds since 2009 offset a steep decline in jewelry demand, the World Gold Council said in a ...
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Notebook ODMs Compal Electronics, Wistron and Inventec have announced their shipments for April with all seeing on-month drop in notebook shipments. Compal shipped 1.9 million notebooks in April, down 45.71% on month from 3.5 million ...
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Volvo Cars is set to disrupt the delivery experience with the introduction a new service that promises In-car Delivery of your online shopping in under two hours The ground-breaking collaboration with Swedish start-up urb-it will enable ...
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UK-based Riversimple has unveiled two new models as continuation to its Rasa hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. The new models were announced at the London Motor Show. One is a four-seater car and the other a van. Rasa is claimed to offer ...
Cascades, a leader in the recovery and manufacturing of green packaging and tissue paper products, announces that the Greenpac Mill located in Niagara Falls, NY, a company created in partnership with the Caisse de dépt et de ...
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Honda Manufacturing of Alabama (HMA) has started the mass production of its new 2017 Ridgeline pickup truck. The pickup truck is anticipated to go on-sale soon at Honda dealerships nationwide. It will be manufactured in the same ...
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