UK-based drinks manufacturer and distributor Global Brands has reported a 16% increase in its annual sales for the year ending 30 September 2017. The company's turnover was £42m for the financial year. Gross profit went up to ...
Tags: drinks, alcoholic drink
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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Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) is lending its support to the first quantitative study for the reduction of plastic waste in Japan. Dow will provide financial assistance to study the impact of plastic waste and debris on the ...
Fourteen organizations from the paper cup supply chain have signed a deal to boost PE lined paper cup recycling in the UK. The agreement has been signed with Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE UK), which runs the ...
Tags: Beverage Cartons, Paper Cup
Moravia Lacto, which is part of the Interlacto Group, has re-launched its range of products in Elopak's Pure-Pak Sense carton. Moravia Lacto is the largest supplier of ESL milk and cream in cartons in the Czech Republic. In 2016, it ...
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The Google Pixel phones are among the best available, even with the influx of 2017 Android flagships from Samsung, HTC, Essential and LG. But given it's last year’s handset, what incentive do fans have to grab the ‘Made by ...
UK-based Kite Packaging is expanding its headquarters in Coventry, West Midlands with an investment of about £1.5m. The investment will see the company upgrade its warehouse facilities servicing Midlands and online customers. It ...
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Benefiting from the steady LED market price and the rapid growth of the automotive lighting field, automotive LED value will reach $2. 817 billion (+14.8% YoY) in 2017, as LEDinside forecasts. Relatively speaking, the compound annual growth ...
Tags: LED market, LED, LED lighting
Marbach Asia Pacific, the subsidiary of the Marbach Group in South-east asia, has recently installed a new die-cutting machine that will stay at the company for at least two years. The global manufacturer of cutting-dies can now showcase ...
A slowdown in China is the greatest threat to the global economy, Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff told BBC in a curious interview in late September. "The [Chinese] economy is slowing down much more than the official figures show." As the ...
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Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP - Shell 50%) announced today a significant new oil discovery in the coastal waters of the south-east Asian sultanate. The discovery, named Geronggong, is situated in the 3rd Offshore Acreage Area, approximately ...
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That can only mean one thing – that the company is planning to debut new handsets at the big trade fair, where the Galaxy S8 is also expected to debut. The official MWC website has been updated to show HMD will be in attendance, ...
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Electric car-maker Tesla Motors has agreed to acquire German company Grohmann Engineering. Accelerating a sustainable energy future is only possible with high-volume factories. They allow us to manufacture high-quality products with ...
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Taiwan’s government has focused on expanding the island’s PV power generation as part of its plan to abandon nuclear power. In terms of targets, Taiwan aims to add 1.52GW of PV capacity between mid-2016 and mid-2018 and ...
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Volkswagen is systematically moving ahead with its transition to the mobility world of tomorrow initiated by the "TOGETHER – Strategy 2025" program for the future. The Group presented its next steps on the road to becoming a ...