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Company News
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M&As: Avery Dennison completes Hanita buy; Contitech receives go-ahead for Hornschuch
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Labelling solutions provider Avery Dennison says it has completed the acquisition of Hanita Coatings, a pressure-sensitive materials manufacturer of speciality films and laminates, from Kibbutz Hanita and Tene Investment Funds. Headquartered in northern Israel with sales and distribution...
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Materials News
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Bio-on/Sadam collaborate for low-cost production of levulinic acid
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Italy’s Bio-On and Sadam Group are teaming up to work on a project to develop innovative industrial processes, at competitive cost and with low environmental impact, to produce levulinic acid. Bio-on and Sadam Group will work together in the next 3 years to build a demo plant with a capacity of 5,000 tonnes of levulinic acid/year...
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Machinery News
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Shelf war of products: The score is in the packaging
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Let’s face it: buyers now are more discerning in choosing which products to buy, ergo spurring on-shelf product competition for buyer’s attention. Can packaging be a deal breaker, asks Angelica Buan in this article. Packaging in a historical perspective has undergone tremendous metamorphosis, from the use of leaves and clay to more advanced...
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PRA March-April 2017
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Researchers design rubber glove with sensors to scan dangerous nerve agents
Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in the US and CSIRO Manufacturing in Australia have designed a new rubber glove equipped with highly stretchable sensors that will be able to detect dangerous nerve agents like sarin and VX during events like terrorist attacks or food contamination. DNA is part of the chemical group known as organophosphates, but so are powerful insecticides used in farming and nerve...
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Material developments for 3D printing
The 3D printing market is estimated to grow at 24% CAGR till 2022, with investment in services, materials and hardware to reach US$58 billion by 2022. While 3D printing has taken off in the aerospace, automotive, consumer, healthcare, E&E and biomedical industries, other sectors are being targeted, too, thus, the requirement for new materials. New UV curable elastomers with better stretching. Elastomers have been used in a host of applications, due to their elasticity...
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