Swire Pacific subsidiary Swire Beverages has agreed to acquire Coca-Cola bottling assets in China in a bid to strengthen its business in non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages. The deal to refranchise bottling operations in China has been ...
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Volvo has announced that it is expanding production at its new facility in Daqing, China where it will produce SPA Volvo sedan. The facility is expected to produce cars based on Scalable Product Architecture (SPA), and the facility ...
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WSS, the California-based neighborhood footwear retailer, is hosting a grand opening celebration on Saturday, Nov. 15 starting at 10:00 a.m. to commemorate its arrival to Las Vegas. As part of the celebration the first 200 shoppers will ...
Tags: footwear, Sporting Goods
Malaysian industrial stretch film producer Scientex has invested $91.97m in the next three years to expand into the Japanese and South-East Asian market for its consumer packaging products. The company will use the money to expand its ...
Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, commissioned its second benzoic acid reactor train at its facility in Rotterdam, Netherlands, adding 75,000 metric tons of capacity for the production of benzoic ...
PET to PET recycling Austria has invested about 2.3m on the upgrade of its Austrian plant based in Müllendorf to meet the increasing processing demand. A bottle-to-bottle PET recycling operation, the company is backed by Coca-Cola ...
Tags: PET to PET, Facility Upgrade, Printing
Mercedes-Benz sees good prospects in the US market and is expanding the local production capacities in the country. "We are consistently seeing record sales in the USA. By launching the new C-Class we are setting new standards in our ...
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This year's spike of U.S. liquified propane (LP) prices has been blamed on increased grain drying, harsh winter weather, low supplies and exports. But, the increased amounts of product being exported, while many U.S. LP users struggle to ...
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Two companies have been awarded contracts to undertake marine site surveys for the Port of Hastings Development Authority, Minister for Ports David Hodgett said. “Awarding these contracts is a significant milestone in the progress ...
New York’s insurance broker USI Insurance Services (USI) has purchased J Princinsky & Associates, (RJP), a Maryland-based full service group benefits (insurance) agency specializing in strategic benefits planning, for an undisclosed ...
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Motorola Solutions, a leading provider of communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, has announced the results of a research study that details shifts in the plans of warehouse professionals across several ...
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Governor Dr. Robert Bentley announced that Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, the world’s leading manufacturer of PET resins, will invest $190 million to build a new manufacturing plant adjacent to its current site on Finley ...
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Victorian premier Denis Napthine has released $110 million towards the Port of Hastings development. Visiting Hastings with Minister for Ports David Hodgett, Dr Napthine said the money reaffirmed the Victorian Government's belief in the ...
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Consensus views on a U.S.manufacturing resurgence have largely centered on rising labor costs in markets such as China as the key driver of re-shoring back to the U.S.However,a new PwC US report,A Homecoming for U.S.Manufacturing?,reveals ...
Tags: labor costs, U.S.manufacturing, transportation and energy
In terms of mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, portfolio changes and investment projects, one of the most active sectors in the European coatings supply chain is dispersions. Despite a slow growth in demand for coatings, ...
Tags: coatings supply, European, VOCs, dispersions market