More trouble for Pakistan's beleaguered textile industry. The Institute for Policy Reforms (IPR) in a report outlining structural factors that have hurt the industry, has said that the textile industry has made inadequate investment in ...
China will lower the retail prices of both gas and diesel by 85 yuan (12.3 U.S. dollars) per tonne from Wednesday due to falling international prices, according to the country's top economic planner. It will be the second oil price cut ...
For fiscal third-quarter 2018 (to end June), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets – ...
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For second-quarter 2018, POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada and San Jose, CA, USA — a designer and manufacturer of optoelectronic devices, including light sources, passive waveguides and photonic integrated circuits (PIC) for ...
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For second-quarter 2018, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $157.8m, down slightly on $158.6m last quarter but up 40.6% on $112.2m a year ago. ...
After beginning volume production of its first bulk-CMOS radio frequency (RF) switch in 2008, Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has now reached an annual run-rate far exceeding 1 billion and a cumulative shipments of 5 billion RF ...
The UK food industry has fallen short of the 5% target of sugar reduction across food products set by Public Health England (PHE) in the first year of its 4-year sugar reduction program. According to a report unveiled by the executive ...
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Sappi North America, a producer and supplier of diversified paper and packaging products, has joined as a new funding partner of The Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit that applies corporate funding to improve recycling efforts in ...
Water UK has launched a new scheme in the UK to allow consumers to refill plastic water bottles in public places to help reduce the plastic use. People will be able to refill water bottles for free in tens of thousands of places in ...
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Coca-Cola has set a goal to collect and recycle every bottle or can it sells by 2030. The company announced the new packaging commitment as part of its ‘World Without Waste’ campaign which looks to make all its packaging 100% ...
Schmidt's Naturals has introduced a new set of limited edition Holiday Collection deodorants in the US. The Holiday Collection offers three scents that exemplify the season – Oh, Christmas Tree, Snow Day, and Holiday Spice, all made ...
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Comexi, specialist in solutions for the flexible packaging industry, was awarded with an E-TECH Digital Award 2017 for its Comexi Cloud technology. These awards, given biannually by the Associació d’Empreses de Noves ...
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For fiscal first-quarter 2018 (to end-September 2017), optical and photonic optical component and subsystem maker Lumentum Holdings Inc of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported revenue of $243.2m, down 5.8% on $258.1m a year ago due to softer ...
Tags: optical component, subsystem
UK-based bakery products manufacturer Finsbury Food Group is planning to close its Grain D'Or bakery business, putting around 250 jobs at risk. The company said that Grain D'Or has been historically loss making even after implementing ...
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Indian auto-maker Tata Motors and Volkswagen’s Czech Republic subsidiary Skoda have ended their talks on the development of a new car for the emerging markets. Volkswagen and Tata Motors signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in ...
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