MA Silva, the leading manufacturer of cork, glass and packaging, broke ground for a new manufacturing facility across from the existing building located in the Westwind Business Park adjacent to the Sonoma County Regional Airport in Santa ...
Tags: cork, wine bottles, Agriculture
UK-based custom printed self adhesive labels manufacturers Mercian Labels has opened a new 24,000 ft2 factory in Staffordshire to meet the expanding demands for its digital and security labelling products. The company recently ...
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. has commissioned two new expansions at its Rayong, Thailand manufacturing facility to serve the growing Asian market demand for specialty chemicals. Commissioning took place as part of part of the 10th ...
Tags: Chemicals, Asian market, specialty chemicals
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (ended 27 September 2014), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $89.2m (at the high end of the $83-91m ...
Jaguar Land Rover has opened its £500m Engine Manufacturing Centre at Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, UK. The facility has marked the beginning of in-house engine production for the company. The plant will be manufacturing ...
Tags: Jaguar Land Rover, in-house engine, Auto
The National Titanium Dioxide Company, Ltd. has entered into an agreement to acquire the titanium dioxide assets of Jiangxi Tikon Titanium Company, Ltd. The Jiangxi Tikon manufacturing facility is located in the city of Fuzhou in Jiangxi ...
Crown Equipment Corporation, one of the world’s largest material handling companies, recently earned a Most Valuable Pollution Prevention (MVP2) Award from the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR) in the USA. This ...
Tags: Crown Equipment, material handling
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules integrated into off-grid applications and its EnerPlex series of consumer products, ...
Tags: Ascent Solar, flexible copper
Netherlands based paints maker AkzoNobel has begun operation at its vehicle refinishes plant in Changzhou, China. The new plant, AkzoNobel's 30th manufacturing facility in China, will offer approximately 25 million liters of capacity for ...
AkzoNobel has started operations at its vehicle refinishes plant in Changzhou, China - the company's 30th manufacturing facility in the country. The new factory adds approximately 25 million liters of capacity for Sikkens, Lesonal and ...
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Bloomer Plastics, which is owned by private equity firm Huron Capital Partners, has acquired Ohio-based high barrier coextruded blown films manufacturer, Optimum Plastics The company said that the acquisition was directly aligned with its ...
Tags: Bloomer Plastics, Optimum Plastics, Printing
Jaguar Land Rover has opened its first overseas manufacturing facility in north of Shanghai, China. The $1.7bn plant has been built in a joint venture between Jaguar and Chinese automobile manufacturer Chery Automobile. The company is ...
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The PPG Industries Foundation has donated $5,000 to Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) for its Women in Science and Engineering Roundtable (WISER) program. The funding, on behalf of PPG Industries’ automotive coatings facilities ...
Tags: PPG, Program, Decoration
PPG Industries reported third quarter 2014 net sales from continuing operations of $3.94 billion, up $161 million, or 4 percent, versus the prior year. Third quarter 2014 reported net income from continuing operations was $377 million, or ...
Tags: PPG, Construction Coating
BASF India Limited inaugurated its large-scale chemical production complex at Dahej in Gujarat, India. With a project cost of INR 1,000 crore (approximately €150 million), the site represents BASF’s single largest investment in ...
Tags: BASF, Chemical Complex, Decoration