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Global medical firms debut hundreds of latest products at CIIE

The kidney care business of Baxter will be spun off and formed as a separate company Vantive. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Global medical companies are launching hundreds of state-of-the-art technologies in the medical product pavilion of the ongoing China International Import Expo. Siemens Healthineers displays nearly 20 cutting-edge technology products and a wide array of…

IFF opens Creative Center in Shanghai

Employees work in a laboratory for dairy products and beverages at the IFF Shanghai Creative Center. [CHINA DAILY] With an investment of $100 million, the United States-based IFF officially opened the IFF Shanghai Creative Center, the most leading-edge facility among the company’s 50 creative centers around the world, on Oct 25. Equipped with the most…

Global firms capitalize on China’s smart, green transformation

This photo taken on Nov 4, 2024 shows the automobile exhibition area of the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE) at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) in Shanghai. [Photo/Xinhua] SHANGHAI – Global investors are eyeing fresh opportunities in China as the world’s second-largest economy accelerates its intelligent, green transformation. With the seventh China…

Healthcare MNCs: Import expo vital growth driver

An aerial drone photo taken on Nov 4, 2024 shows the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), the main venue for the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE), in Shanghai. [Photo/Xinhua] The world’s leading pharmaceutical and healthcare companies have said that the China International Import Expo, which is being held in Shanghai from Nov 5…

Vantive brand to be unveiled at 7th CIIE

Chris Toth, executive vice-president and group president of Kidney Care at Baxter, future CEO of Vantive. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Baxter’s Kidney Care segment, which includes the kidney care and acute therapies businesses, is preparing to become a standalone private company named Vantive. It will be unveiled at the seventh China International Import Expo in…

Ikea bullish on business opportunities in nation

An Ikea store in Shanghai. [Photo/VCG] Attending the China International Import Expo for the seventh straight year, Swedish home furnishings and housewares retailer Ikea has made the event and Chinese cultural elements the muse of their product development, according to a senior executive. “We’ve been here for seven consecutive years just from the start. It…

Canon sees pretty picture in China mkt

Japanese tech company Canon Inc. [Photo/VCG] Japanese tech company Canon Inc will intensify efforts to ramp up its investment in fields covering research and development, production and sales in China under stable circumstances, and launch products and services that meet the diverse and personalized needs of local consumers so as to further tap the immense…

Luckin Coffee to ramp up global expansion

Consumers dine at a Luckin Coffee store in Shenyang, Liaoning province, in August. [Photo provided to CHINA DAILY] Chinese coffee chain player Luckin Coffee is looking to expand in the United States and other overseas markets amid intensified domestic competition that is impacting same-store sales. Guo Jinyi, chairman and CEO of Luckin, said during an…

Slovenian JV firm seeking growth at trade fair

ZELJKO STEVANIC/XINHUA LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — Blaz Stefe, CEO of the Chinese-Slovenian joint venture APG-Elaphe Propulsion Technologies, told Xinhua that his company will explore new possibilities for technological innovation and market expansion during the upcoming seventh China International Import Expo in Shanghai. Reflecting on his past eight years with the Hangzhou, Zhejiang province-based company, Stefe highlighted…

Pollution reduction sees innovation in Fujian

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Jinjiang county, Fujian province, carries out co-innovation of the reduction of pollution and carbon emissions, to promote the green transformation of the industrial chain, supply chain, logistics chain and information chain, focusing on textile printing and dyeing industries with high energy and water consumption. Fynex Textile factory, located in the Jinjiang…