Eastman Chemical Company has launched Cyphrex microfibres. Eastman says that the microfibres platform makes new nonwoven solutions possible for media and component manufacturers and OEMs. Eastman Cyphrex™ microfibres offer ...
The three-year blockade against donations to WikiLeaks may have just been chiseled away, in Iceland, by a ruling handed down by the European country's Supreme Court. The verdict, handed down Wednesday, says that the Visa subcontractor ...
Tags: Wikileaks, Computer Products
Spanish paper and packaging company Saica has announced the opening of its £300m PM11 recycled paper mill in Partington near Manchester, UK. The mill, which is part of a £0.5bn investment by the company in the UK, is expected ...
Tags: Saica, Recycled Paper Mill
International Paper (IP) is all set to invest in its Kwidzyn mill in Poland in a bid to improve its product quality and service platform for the folding boxboard market. According to the packaging and paper company, the project is ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it seeks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud. For ...
Tags: Amazon, Computer Products, software
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it looks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud. For ...
Tags: Amazon, Computer Products
Ahlstrom made changes to its financial segment reporting as of January 1, 2013 as the former Filtration business area was divided into two separate segments: Advanced Filtration and Transportation Filtration. In addition, a new reporting ...
Tags: Ahlstrom, Filtration Business, Textile
Packaging Dynamics, a portfolio company of investment firm Kohlberg & Company, has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Thilmany Papers business unit to a new company. The new company will be formed and controlled by investment funds ...
The fire started last Wednesday (17 April) at Smurfit Kappa's recovered fibre yard in Nechells. In a press statement published today (22 April), West Midlands Fire Service said: "Fire crews continued to work hard over the weekend and as ...
Tags: packaging papers, packaging
GroupeStahl will once again be attending FESPA, and the 2013 Exhibition is being held at Excel in London between 25th and 29th June. Stahls will have a full complement of International staff from group companies based all over the world. ...
Tags: Stahls, Hotronix Air Fusion, Textile
A major fire ripped through Smurfit Kappa’s paper mill on Wednesday night (17 April). Some 9,000 tonnes of cardboard bales were well alight [nearly a quarter of its stock supply], covering seven acres of a 22-acre site. West ...
Tags: packaging papers, packaging
100 people gather to discuss glass production developments - From 10-12 April 2013, the Interational Commission onn Glass (ICG) and the industrial consortium GlassTrend organized a seminar for the Technical Committees in the cluster Glass ...
Tags: ICG/Glass Trend, Construction
From January to March 2013, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 5,809.2 billion yuan, up by 20.9 percent year-on-year in nominal terms (actual increase was 20.7 percent after deducting price factors), the ...
Tags: economy, Processing Machinery
West Midlands Fire Service said more than 15 fire engines were at the Smurfit Kappa plant, a mill that packaging papers, in Nechells. About 100 firefighters remain at the scene of the blaze in Mount Street, which broke out shortly after ...
Natural materials Directly "burning" images on wood were some of the first uses of engraving lasers. The laser power required here is often less than 10 watts depending on the laser being used as most are different. Hardwoods like walnut, ...
Tags: Materials, Laser engraving