Finnish paper and pulp firm Metsa Board has invested €38m in a new extrusion coating line at its paper mill in northern Sweden. The new line at the company’s Husum mill is now producing initial orders. It has an annual capacity ...
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Taiwan boasts a large number of globally competitive manufacturers of furniture parts, to enjoy solid presence in the global furniture supply chain.Despite global economic uncertainties, most of Taiwanese furniture parts makers have yet to ...
Tags: furniture parts, sustainable development, competitive edges
Finland-based pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso is investing about €63m to strengthen its consumer board and biomaterials capabilities in China and Sweden. Of the total amount, the company will invest €31m in a new ...
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Self-adhesive laminates producer Frimpeks is planning to invest in new equipment for its Saxmundham site in the UK over the next three years. The plans for the expansion come one year after the company launched its UK presence by opening ...
AkzoNobel and leading Chinese auto maker JAC Motors have pioneered the first use of VOC-free powder technology for automotive body coatings. As sustainability continues to gain increasing importance in China, AkzoNobel's Interpon powder ...
A specialist in lamination, packaging and label products, Cosmo Films has been expanding rapidly in recent months. The company's Export Oriented Unit (EOU) plant in Shendra, India, has now become self-sufficient as part of the company's ...
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Film manufacturing and coating firm Perlen Packaging is injecting over CHF20m ($20.3m) for expanding its PVdC coating line capacity in Perlen, Switzerland. The company, a unit of of industrial group CPH Chemie + Papier Holding, ...
The project features an expanded recycling center at its Pindamonhangaba site, and the combined projects will add 100,000 metric tons of coating capacity and 190,000 metric tons of recycling capacity when fully operational, creating over ...
Russia-based steel pipe producer ChTPZ Group has stated that it has dispatched 1,828 mt of large diameter (LD) pipes with a polypropylene anti-corrosion coating and thickness of 6 mm produced by its workshop Vysota 239, intended for the ...
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The 6th International Conference and Exhibition for the Organic and Printed Electronics Industry, the LOPEC, has taken place in Munich last week. This year Coatema presented a complete new product line for laboratory coating and ...
Pressure sensitive label materials supplier UPM Raflatac has decided to invest around €13m in a new coating line at its self-adhesive labelstock factory in Nowa Wies, Poland. The investment will allow the company to increase the ...
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Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) has announced that NS BlueScope Thailand, part of NS BlueScope Coated Products, a joint venture between NSSMC and Australia-based BlueScope Steel Limited, has decided to ...
Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated its state-of-the-art textile coating pilot line in Shanghai, China. At its headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany, the company has also installed new lab facilities, among them a lab coater. Along with the ...
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Sensors Deliver Efficiencies for Technology Center Yokogawa's WEBFREX3ES online sensor is now included in Faustel's Technology Center. The sensor performs accurate online measurements of film and sheet thickness. It produces graphs ...
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BASF is expanding its business in industrial coatings in the growth market of Africa. Since October 2013, the company has supplied coil coatings to Roofings Rolling Mills (RRM), located in Uganda. BASF and its technical service were also on ...
Tags: Coil Coatings, BASF