Avon whitening cream banned in China

The China Food and Drug Administration has announced that Avon brand skin-whitening cream has been found to contain the prohibited phenol.

P&G opens a new plant in Indonesia

Expanding its reach for Asian market share, P&G officially opened its first plant in Indonesia this month, and disclosed it will build a second one.

Turnkey production line for surgical needles

Jouhsen Bundgens develops one integrated production line covers the entire production chain – maximum positioning accuracy enables precision laser drilling in austenite blanks

Recycled PET proves effective in killing drug-resistant fungi

IBN and IBM discover new medical application for converted PET bottles

Polymers can be semi-metals

Polymers can behave like insulators, semiconductors and metals – as well as semimetals. Twenty researchers, under the leadership of Xavier Crispin, Docent in organic electronics at Link?ping University, are behind the breakthrough published in Nature Materials.

Dual injection unit systems improvement

Affordable single-screw, single-barrel retrofit makes cost savings of coinjection achievable on standard molding presses

Bayer’s polycarbonate for surveillance devices

Polycarbonate from Bayer offers protection for motions sensors and cameras

China bans imports of ROK medical product

China Food and Drug Administration, Daewoong Pharmaceutical, antibiotic injection

TOMRA adds new breakthrough in Nimbus free-fall system

TOMRA Sorting Solutions has made its latest technological breakthrough for nut and raisin processors available in its Nimbus free-fall machine.

Asia Pacific is largest consumer of glass packaging

Increasing consumption of alcoholic drinks is driving demand for innovative glass packaging

LycoRed enters men’s health category

The company uses standardised tomato extract as key ingredient in new formulation for prostate health

Oman Oil Company concludes Oxea acquisition

With the acquisition, OOC aims to become a vertically integrated global chemical leader in the downstream industry.