Dongfeng Honda Automobile a Honda automobile production and sales joint venture in China, has unveiled plans to build a third automobile production plant. The announcement included a groundbreaking event in Wuhan, China. The event was ...
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Potato processing firm Lamb Weston/Meijer has opened a new €120m production plant in the Netherlands. Apart from the new line, the company renovated the entire production location including the existing production line. The company ...
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Opel has inaugurated a new global propulsion system center at its Rüsselsheim headquarters in Germany and the facility. Prime Minister of the federal state of Hesse Volker Bouffier, who took the opportunity to take a close look at ...
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Daimler is planning to invest about €500m in new engine production plant in the Polish city of Jawor. The company signed property purchase agreement for the site with its Polish partners. Jawor is the first production site of ...
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Finnish meat processor Atria has gained access to lucrative Chinese pork market, as the authorities grant license for the company to start exports. Atria said that it has received official confirmation of the pork export license to China. ...
General Mills has announced that it will invest $25m to expand its cereal production plant in Buffalo, New York, US. Expected to be completed in May 2017, the expansion project will include purchase of new packaging equipment, production ...
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Algaia has entered into an agreement to acquire Cargill’s alginates business and its production plant in Lannilis, northwestern France. The acquisition is aimed at accelerating the development the field of natural extracts, more ...
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Meat processor Atria has received approval from the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority to acquire Kaivon Liha Kaunismaa. In June, Atria announced that it would purchase 70% stake in Kaivon Liha to expand its business in Finland. ...
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For its cheese production plant in Balkbrug (the Netherlands), FrieslandCampina will switch over to green ‘steam’, generated by burning wood chips. In order to make this possible, the company Brouwer Bio Centrale will start ...
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The Netherlands-based Lightweight Containers is opening a new production plant in Grossbreitenbach, Germany. The fully automated production line has a capacity of 400 KeyKeg® Slimlines per hour and will be operational in the third ...
Spanish Ebro Foods has acquired a controlling stake in flour producer and retailer Santa Rita Harinas for €4.8m ($5.34m). In a statement to Spain’s National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), Ebro said that it has bought 52% ...
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Russian firm Kazanskiy Zavod Sovremennoy Upakovki (KZSU) has launched new plant for the production of AD*STAR block bottom sacks. Located in the Himgrad technology zone in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, the plant has capacity to produce ...
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Finnish meat processor Atria has announced that it would invest €14m to improve operations at poultry firm Lagerberg which was recently acquired by it. The company will make investments over the next three years to improve the entire ...
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Jaguar Land Rover has opened its first wholly-owned manufacturing plant outside its home market of the UK. The company inaugurated a £240m manufacturing facility and education business partnership centre in the state of Rio de ...
Fort Dearborn Company, a manufacturer of decorative labels for packaging applications, has acquired shrink and stretch sleeve labels provider SleeveCo, for undisclosed amount. SleeveCo has one label production plant in Dawsonville, ...
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