Sun-Tox, a Japanese producer of plastic films, has installed a new biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film production line manufactured by German engineering giant Brückner. The Japanese firm is a member of Tokuyama Group, a ...
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Constantia Flexibles has invested approximately €6m to meet increasing demand for specialty laminates with high property barriers for confectionery, coffee, dry food and snacks as well as processed meat industries. The company ...
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Covestro has expanded its film production capability, investing around €20m in a new production facility for multilayered flat films in Dormagen, Germany. The total investment also includes the related infrastructure and logistics. ...
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Swiss specialty chemicals firm Clariant is strengthening its collaboration with Gettel High-Tech Materials on biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) manufacturing in China. The companies will jointly promote additives and liquid feeding ...
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Australian packaging company Amcor has acquired China-based Hebei Qite Packing for around RMB185m ($28m). The acquisition will allow Amcor to expand its flexible packaging operations in the Northern China region. Hebei Qite, which ...
Mitsubishi Polyester Film, a subsidiary of Japan-based Mitsubishi Plastics, has selected Jacobs Engineering Group to provide engineering services for the expansion of its polyester film plant in Greenville County, South Carolina, US. ...
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Zero cure time is required in a new lamination development unveiled by HP Indigo, enabling flexible packaging converters to benefit from the fast speed to market offered by digital printing, even for retort pouches. HP Indigo Pack ...
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SRF Limited is reportedly investing close to $58m in building a new biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) film production plant in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh Of the total investment, around $40m will be provided ...
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Rotocon, a provider of consulting and service to South Africa label converters in the narrow web industry has confirmed the signing of a two-fold contract with Zimbabwean printer LabelCo for both MPS and Rotocontrol machines. Led by ...
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A poster of the fantasy movie Monster Hunt [File photo] The Chinese film industry has experienced new highs this year, with several breakthrough domestic works proving hits across the country and breaking the box office records time after ...
A new television production of The Legend of the Condor Heroes is coming. [Photo provided to China Daily] A new TV version of The Legend of the Condor Heroes (Shediao Yingxiong Zhuan) is set to be made to attract a young audience. The ...
A Wanda cinema in Yichang, Hubei province. [Photo by Zhou Jianping/China Daily] Dalian Wanda Group Co Ltd, the privately owned Chinese property conglomerate, plans to list its film production and distribution business within a year, Wang ...
Packaging films producer Vacmet India is to invest close to Rs15.8bn ($238.8m) in a new production plant in Dhar district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, a move that will create over 8,000 jobs. The company laid foundation stone of the ...
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A Century of Enlightenment, a Chinese film retrospective exhibition, will kick off on Friday in the US capital Washington D.C. During the one week activity, a forum on Sino-US cultural and film exchange will also be held. Sponsored by the ...
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When the 13th-century Italian merchant and traveler Marco Polo finished his famous book The Travels of Marco Polo, he couldn’t have imagined that seven centuries later his adventures in China would be adapted into a seven-hour film. ...
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