Mahindra Automotive North America (MANA) has inaugurated a new North American headquarters and manufacturing facility, the first such new OEM facility in Southeast Michigan in over 25 years. The expansion is part of a $230 million ...
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South African specialist paper company Sappi has unveiled plans to expand its dissolving wood pulp (DWP) capacity by 2020. The company's plans include potential expansion at its Saiccor DWP Mill to increase the mill’s capacity by ...
UK-based Skymark Packaging invested in a Universal X6 laser perforation slitter rewinder to boost its flexible packaging production. The new laser perforation slitter rewinder from Universal Converting Equipment will allow Skymark to ...
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CSafe Global has secured approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its new RAP ULD container. Part of the firm’s active and passive cold chain packaging solutions, the new CSafe RAP temperature controlled container ...
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Flint Group has opened a new facility in the cosmopolitan district of Beylikduzu, in Istanbul, Turkey for its packaging division. Located 13km from the main container terminal on the European side of Turkey, the new 3800m² Beylikduzu ...
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Belgium-based packaging printer and converter Vitra has invested in Bobst equipment as part of its investment program. The family-owned company has purchased two Bobst 20SIX CI flexo printing presses and a Bobst CL850 laminating machine. ...
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Seoul-based materials and component manufacturer LG Innotek (a subsidiary of South Korean electronics company LG Group) has developed what is claimed to be the first 100mW UV-C LED, two years ahead of the industry forecast of 2020. The firm ...
Specialty chemicals producer Clariant is planning to revise its ColorForward trend-watching platform, designed to help forecast colors for use in plastics products and packaging. In collaboration with its Masterbatches business unit, ...
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Jones Packaging, a provider of pharmaceutical packaging solutions, has switched to Rimini Street support for its SAP ERP application, resulting in substantial reduction in annual support fees and avoiding unnecessary upgrade costs. The ...
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German automaker Volkswagen is planning to invest more than €10bn by 2025 for the development and production of electric cars and plug-in hybrid cars in China. The investment will be made by Volkswagen Group China and its joint ...
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American meat processing company Tyson Foods has selected western Tennessee as the location of its new $300m chicken production complex. Tyson Foods had originally planned to construct the project in eastern Kansas, near Tonganoxie in ...
Toyo Printing Inks, a Turkey-based inks and coatings manufacturer and a unit of Toyo Ink, is expanding its operations in the country with an investment of $26.7m. As part of this effort, the company purchased a 62,000m² plot of land ...
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For third-quarter 2017, 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 the ...
Tetra Pak has introduced a new package which will enable dairy and juice drinks to be produced and distributed in small carton pouches at room temperature. They can also be turned into frozen products in shops or in a consumer’s ...
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Valmet has received a contract to supply DNA control system for Blue Paper's new Solid Recovered Fuels (SRF) boiler, which is being developed at Strasbourg mill in France. Blue Paper is developing a new 22MW steam production plant based ...
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