BTHA's Rebecca Deeming gives us the lowdown on the latest issues facing the toy industry. It’s been a busy last month for the BTHA having held our second BTHA Training Hub seminar for members, taking on the topic of Tackling Modern ...
Tags: Toy Fair 2018, Toy Safety
Gogoro Inc, a Taiwanese-based venture-backed company that develops and sells electric scooters and battery swapping infrastructure, has raised another US$300 million (NT$9 billion) as it looks to further expand to new regions and product ...
Tags: electric scooters, battery
Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has signed a definitive agreement for the newly founded private company Neptune 6 Ltd to acquire its subsidiary manufacturing site IR Newport Ltd in Newport, Wales, UK. The deal is expected to ...
The Ontario Government is helping pork processor Conestoga Meat Packers to expand local production and bring 170 new jobs to Waterloo Region. The government is investing up to C$5.3m ($4.35m) as part of its C$2.7bn ($2.2bn) Jobs and ...
Tags: pork processor, Meat
AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA - which makes gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge) substrates and raw materials – has completed the purchase of its new manufacturing facility in the city of Dingxing, China. ...
Tags: gallium arsenide, indium phosphide
As part of the Special Session program at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2017) in Cincinnati, OH (1–5 October), the Power Electronics Industry Collaborative (PEIC) – a national, industry-focused member-based ...
Tags: semiconductor, supply chain
The global light-emitting diode (LED) market is increasing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 18% during 2017-2021, rising from $18.51bn in 2016 to $24.67bn in 2012, forecasts market research firm Technavio. In ...
The US House has approved a proposal to accelerate the deployment of self-driving cars. The bill, known as the Self-Drive Act, is yet to become a law. When enacted, the law will enable auto-makers and tech companies to test 25,000 ...
Sustainable packaging solutions provider Ball has announced plans to shut down three beverage packaging facilities in the US. The company also intends to build new and advanced beverage packaging facility in Goodyear, Arizona. Expected ...
Tags: Sustainable packaging, packaging
Redpath Sugar will invest C$5.2m ($4.17m) in the expansion of its dry blending and packaging plant in Belleville, Ontario to add new pouch packaging capabilities. The Canada-based cane sugar refiner will install two new customized ...
Tags: Redpath Sugar, packaging
China's direct investment in Pakistan from July last year to June this year stood at US$1.19 billion, up 11 percent year-on-year and accounting for 49 percent of the total foreign direct investment in Pakistan, according to the National ...
Tags: CPEC, Pakistan's Economy
ICE Service Group, through its packaging group ICE Packaging Company (ICE), has acquired Strategic Packaging Systems (SPS), which is based in the US state of Tennessee. Established in 2009, SPS designs, manufactures and distributes soft ...
Tags: ICE Service, Packaging
Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which makes chips for aerospace & defense, communications, data-center and industrial markets) has become a member of PowerAmerica — a manufacturing institute consisting of public and private ...
Oxford Instruments plc plans to increase personnel at its R&D base at Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and to leverage ITRI's R&D capacities to strengthen their cooperative relationship in technology ...
Tags: Oxford Instruments
The Power Electronics Industry Collaborative (PEIC) – a national, industry-focused member-based consortium consisting of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), material suppliers, researchers and government stakeholders in the US ...
Tags: Power electronics, GaN, SiC