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Wales Approves Minimum Price for Alcohol Bill
Jun 21, 2018The National Assembly for Wales has approved a new law which will introduce a minimum price for alcohol in Wales. The legislation intends to reduce the amount of alcohol being consumed in the form of binge drinking, while reducing the ...
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Infineon Selling IR Newport Manufacturing Site to New Firm Neptune 6
Sep 22, 2017Infineon 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 ...
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Sharp Clinical Services to Invest £9.5m in Wales Facility
Apr 7, 2017Sharp Clinical Services is investing £9.5m on new multiple-phase pharmaceutical manufacturing, packaging and distribution facility in Wales, UK. The Welsh Government is also investing £500,000 in the project, will help the ...
Tags: Sharp Clinical, packaging
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Riversimple Unveils Two New Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Designs
May 11, 2016UK-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 ...
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TVR To Setup A Factory In Wales To Build Sports Cars
Mar 23, 2016British luxury car-maker TVR has confirmed that it will build a new factory in the Ebbw Vale Enterprise Zone in South Wales. The project will provide about 150 new high skilled jobs. Apart from creating new jobs, setting up the factory ...
Tags: TVR, Ebbw Vale Enterprise Zone, Sports Cars, Wales
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Essentra To Further Boost Labels And Foil Manufacturing Facility In Newport, UK
Mar 8, 2016Essentra, a supplier of plastic, fiber, foam and packaging components, is planning a six-fold expansion of its facility in Newport, UK. The move, which is expected to create 170 additional jobs, follows the company's announcement in last ...
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Aston Martin to Open New Plant in Wales to Produce DBX Model
Mar 2, 2016UK's luxury car maker, Aston Martin is all geared up to start its new factory in south Wales to manufacture DBX crossover model. The construction work for the factory will begin in 2017 and production of cars is expected to begin at 2020. ...
Tags: Aston Martin, DBX Model, luxury car
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Riversimple Unveils Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Car
Feb 18, 2016Riversimple, a UK based startup has unveiled a hydrogen-powered car called Rasa which claimed to offer 300 miles driving range on 1.5kg of hydrogen. The company has been building hydrogen fuel-cell project for 15 years and now plans to ...
Tags: Fuel Cell, electricity Car
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CSC Formally Launched as First Compound Semiconductor Cluster
Nov 24, 2015Hosted by Stephen Doughty (the Member of Parliament for the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency), an event in the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, has formally launched the Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC), formed at ...
Tags: IQE, compound semiconductor
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Essentra to Expand Packaging Facility in UK
Nov 19, 2015British supplier of specialty plastic, fiber, foam and packaging components Essentra is investing in the expansion of its facility in Newport. As part of the expansion, the company will purchase a 225,000ft2 site adjacent to its existing ...
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SPTS Achieves $1bn Export Sales From Wales Headquarters
Sep 15, 2015SPTS Technologies Ltd (an Orbotech company that manufactures etch, PVD and CVD wafer processing solutions for the MEMS, advanced packaging, LED, high-speed RF on GaAs, and power management device markets) has surpassed $1bn in cumulative ...
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Welsh Government Has Unveiled Plans for a New Legislation
Jul 20, 2015Welsh government has unveiled plans for a new legislation that will mandate a minimum alcohol price, preventing liquor to be sold for less than 50p per unit. The move comes in the wake of a research commissioned by Welsh Government in ...
Tags: agricultural products, beverage, alcohol
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IQE Established a Joint Venture with Cardiff University
Jul 13, 2015Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has established a joint venture with Cardiff University to lead the development and commercialization of compound semiconductor technologies in Europe. IQE says that ...
Tags: electics, IQE, semiconductor
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UK Unveiled a Funding Award to Underpin The Compound Semiconductor Research Foundation
Mar 26, 2015The UK Government's Universities Minister Greg Clark MP has unveiled a £17.3m funding award that will underpin the Compound Semiconductor Research Foundation - the first of its kind in the UK, with potential to become one of the ...
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Northern Ireland Will Implement UK's Standardised Cigarette Packaging Legislation
Feb 5, 2015The Northern Ireland government has confirmed it will implement the UK-wide proposed regulations on standardised packaging for cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco. The decision comes after the Welsh government gave its consent last week ...