The wooden toy firm is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year by detailing plans to take on the South American, Indian and Chinese markets, as well as continue the success of Petilou next year and beyond. Pre-school specialist Le Toy ...
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The European Parliament recently legislated to reduce the number of bags in circulation, but the potential of oxo-biodegradable plastics has been an important side issue. Campbell Bannerman spoke about the British technology stating that ...
Mid-market pan-European investor Aurelius has acquired Europe's leading ethical plastic bottle recycler Eco Plastics for an undisclosed amount. With this investment, Aurelius will supply its highly specialised operational improvement ...
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Major furniture supplier Furniture Link International, owner of the UK brand Wilkinsons Furniture, has rebranded its business to VIDA Living. Group MD Niall Wogan says: “As we were able to more clearly define our business and its ...
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It’s not often that anyone speaks highly of carbon, given the part that element plays in climate change. But a growing number of companies are eagerly promoting carbon in one specific form: It’s called grapheneGraphene is an ...
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Allspeeds Ltd, designers and manufacturers of the Webtool? range of products, have nominated the Webtool? HP690 intensifier panel for the Subsea UK Innovation for Safety Award. Safety concerns were being expressed from those working ...
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LONDON, Dec. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty-five percent of private equity (PE) executives cite the growing capital requirements of the oil and gas industry as the foremost driver of their investment activity in the industry, according to a ...
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Organic waste from pigs on a farm in Leicestershire, UK, is helping to power an estimated 700 homes and reduce landfill waste by 18,000 tonnes each year. The pig waste, combined with other food waste, is being used to produce biogas ...
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Every once and a while an idea comes along that just so simple yet brilliant that it makes a boatload of common sense. Take this gem of an idea for instance. A UK company called Oxford Photovoltaics, (a commercial offshoot from the Oxford ...
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Like most nascent technologies, digital print is a hotbed of innovation, with countless R&D hours being poured into developing higher speed, wider web presses, achieving single pass production and improving colour consistency. But how ...
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The units give carton makers the capability to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and safety of their end-of-line packing operations. Boxpak Limited of Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, was the first UK company to install the universal ...
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German lighting manufacturer Franz Sill has succumbed to difficult market conditions and filed for preliminary insolvency. The company, which manufactures floodlights, luminaires and projectors, now has three months to come up with a way ...
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has signed a one year deal to work with social enterprise technology provider Good World Solutions to facilitate direct communications with workers in its clothing supply chain via mobile technology. M&S will use ...
Sheffield Hallam University-based consultancy Design Futures has created packaging for Pork Farms’ new product Dippy Egg. The UK company coined the idea for a product comprising a part-boiled egg which is converted into a cooked egg ...
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British drug-maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reached settlement with the attorneys general of eight US states over misleading marketing of the diabetes treatment drug, Avandia, and even agreed to pay $229m to settle the lawsuits. Without ...
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