Finland-based food company Raisio is in the process of streamlining its UK cereal and snack business in order to focus on manufacturing more consumer-oriented product range. In this regard, the company has completed consultation ...
Last year the leading fresh food packaging supplier, Linpac, won the most improved factory award for its St. Helen’s site in the prestigious Britain's Best Factory Awards. A major part of the work at St Helens - and throughout the ...
A liquid-to-gas sterilisation process for flexible packaging and its contents has been announced. US-based flexible and folding carton packaging supplier Performance Packaging has code-named the patented process 'Pixie Dust'. Products ...
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China released documents on Monday on electricity sector reforms covering everything from pricing to setting up a national electricity futures market. The new pricing system, which was piloted in Shenzhen and Inner Mongolia early this ...
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DB Schenker has expanded its logistics presence with the opening of a new 14,330sqm facility in Truganina, Victoria. The storage created in the new Truganina warehouse for an existing industrial customer is unique and provides significant ...
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Converting existing linear fluorescent fixtures to LED is a snap with MaxLite DirectFit T5 lamps, the plug-and-play replacement for high output linear fluorescent tubes. The new LED linear lights enable users with simple replacement, ...
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Raging price wars in the LED industry urged many manufacturers to veer away from low entry level products, and invest their resources in more profitable niche markets. Some of these markets include IR LED, UV LED, automotive lighting, grow ...
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Food distributor Sysco Corporation has called off its proposed merger with US Foods, after the US District Court in Washington, D.C ruled against the $3.5bn deal. Last week, the court issued a preliminary injunction to halt the proposed ...
Lectra, a developer of integrated technology solutions for industries using soft materials like fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials, recently hosted a Lectra Fashion PLM event in France. According to a Lectra ...
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A giant Chinese shipping company is looking forward to the opening of Egypt's new Suez Canal waterway as it will enhance world trade. "The new canal will save both time and money," Qin Haipin, liner manager of China Shipping Container ...
Packaging, serving sizes and health consciousness will be the key to profit growth for Coca-Cola Amatil according to its CEO Alison Watkins. Speaking at the company’s Annual General Meeting yesterday Ms Watkins said she was ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the UK's University of Cambridge has ordered its Propel Power gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Power Electronics, LEDs
One of the oldest ways to fertilise crops was “slash and burn” agriculture, where tropical forests are intentionally levelled and burned to create open space and nutrients for crops. In the US, this month’s innovation ...
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North America is the largest region and Asia represents the fastest-growing region in the surgical lamps market. LED represents the largest and fastest-growing technology in surgical lamps market. High color rendering index (CRI) light ...
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AkzoNobel has introduced Chartek Bolt Caps into North America, part of its International product line, designed to be an effective, easy-to-install and cost-saving specified solution for high level fire protection on the bolted connections ...