President Barack Obama has signed two important trade measures into law – the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 and Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (TPA-2015). Both bills, passed by ...
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Lectra, an integrated technology solutions firm dedicated to industries using soft materials-fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials has announced that Bertrandt has chosen Lectra's DesignConcept solution to optimize ...
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Maroon Group, a specialty chemical supplier of additives, resins, and pigments to the plastics industry, has been appointed by ZEOchem as the exclusive distributor of the ZEOflair product line in North America. The ZEOflair product line ...
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The manifesto focuses on enabling the plastics recycling sector to meet the government’s low carbon manufacturing ambitions, which are central to meeting aspirations of a circular economy and resource efficiency. A series of ...
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Bioplastic manufacturer FKuR Kunststoff and lactic acid derivatives and lactides producer Corbion Purac have established partnership to develop poly lactic acid (PLA) compounds for applications that are heat-resistant and GMO-free. The ...
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Senay Simsek wants North Dakota’s wheat quality to be the best in the world. The North Dakota State University associate professor and cereal scientist in the Department of Plant Sciences is in charge of the hard red spring wheat ...
Japanese air purifiers sales surge due to increasing awareness of health and environmental issues. Panasonic's manufacturing plant in Shandong Province has increased its production and Sharp unviels ionizer for newly-built houses. Japanese ...
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Allnex has completed the acquisition of Bayer MaterialScience's Desmolux product range. With the acquisition of the Desmolux product range from Bayer MaterialScience, Allnex gains urethane acrylate, dual cure resin and polyester/polyether ...
"With this joint approach, the two companies are strengthening the fundamental idea of integrated production and can, for example, develop new markets by close intermeshing of machine tool tasks and loading tasks," said Kuka Roboter chief ...
The Australian Federal Government has awarded $7.3 million to 13 automotive suppliers to help them “develop new markets beyond the automotive sector”. With Ford having announced it will close its manufacturing operations in ...
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Dunbia's new £12M Llanybydder factory in Wales will help Sainsbury's plans to boost sales of British food, according to Justin King, ceo of the supermarket chain. Dunbia processes a range of red meats, including lamb "The new ...
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Jawbone today announced the appointment of Mindy Mount as president of the company. Mount comes to Jawbone from Microsoft where she held several roles including corporate vice president and chief financial officer of the Online Services ...
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The Consumer Electronics Association and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. today announced a technical “CRT Challenge” to identify financially viable, environmentally-conscious proposals for using recycled cathode ...
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When Hannover Messe 2013 opens its gates on 8 April, it will do so with more exhibitors and an unprecedented level of international participation. Over 50 percent of the companies represented at the fair are based outside Germany. This ...
Due to the withdrawal of the EU GSP Plus (GSP+) trade concession and the ongoing recession in the largest apparel export markets such as the US and the EU, Sri Lankan garment exporters are eyeing on new and emerging markets for exports. ...
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