Sappi has announced plans to invest at its facilities in Europe and the US in a bid to increase capacities for packaging and specialty paper. In the next three years, the firm intends to invest $140m in equipment upgrades and production ...
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Mississippi-based poultry processor Sanderson Farms has established a new processing plant and wastewater treatment facility with an investment of $155m in North Carolina. The new 180,000ft2 poultry plant located in St. Pauls will ...
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Research commissioned by the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has revealed that when asked to choose who is most responsible for ensuring that recyclable packaging from the home is of good enough quality to be recycled, 45% of ...
Oman’s Mazoon Dairy, which is coming up in the Buraimi governorate with an investment of OMR100m ($260m), is slated to become operational in the latter half of 2018. The dairy company has secured a site at Al Sunaynah, located in ...
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ConAgra Grocery Products, a subsidiary of ConAgra, has agreed to pay a fine $11.2m to resolve a decade long peanut butter case related to a countrywide outbreak of salmonella in the US. The company has pleaded guilty of shipping ...
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Pearl GTL has been jointly developed by Qatar Petroleum and Shell creating an additional route for Qatar to generate value from its enormous supply of gas. Using innovative technology and engineering, Pearl GTL turns natural gas into high ...
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The sale marks the start of production of GTL products when the State of Qatar and Shell, the operator of the Pearl GTL plant, begin to receive revenue from the project. Over the coming months, production will ramp up from the first ...
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Alliance Group has invested over $2m to install a new beef x-ray technology at two of its plants in New Zealand to improve packaging and labeling of meat products. The New Zealand red meat processor and exporter has deployed the new x-ray ...
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Russian meat producer Cherkizovo Group has started construction of a new $90m meat processing plant in the Moscow region. Expected to be the largest in the meat processing category in Europe once completed, the plant is located in Kashira ...
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A new research has discovered that the sweet, stevia plants molecules retain their characteristics through the different stages of processing and in final stevia sweetener end product. Conducted at the University of Bonn in Germany, the ...
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Model Group, a manufacturer of packaging made of cardboard and corrugated board, is planning to build a material processing plant in Switzerland with an investment of CHF35m ($35m). Planned to be built in Weinfelden, the plant will ...
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Blue Goose Capital, a privately-held, Canadian-based protein and organic food company, has announced the acquisition of Tender Choice Foods. Tender Choice Foods operates processing plant specializing in the processing, packing and ...
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Vitalus Nutrition and Gay Lea Foods have entered into a joint venture to invest in a new dairy processing plant in Manitoba, Canada. The companies will process dairy ingredients and butter at the plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The joint ...
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Olymel has announced that it will expand its pork processing facility in Beauce in Canada’s Quebec province with an investment of $3m. The Canadian pork and poultry meat producer will use the investment for installing new equipment ...
Global agriculture company Syngenta has completed expansion of its key projects in Brazil and Switzerland to increase its production capacity. It had invested a total of $240m in two Brazilian plants. One of them is the new Elatus ...