What would be your prediction for lighting in 10 years’ time? Majority of commercial members won’t be supplying commodity type luminaires but in order to prosper will need to adapt to the need for more specialist products or ...
Tags: Lighting Industry, Lighting
DuPont Nutrition & Health will increase its cultures manufacturing capacity in Europe with an investment of $60m to meet the growing demand for frozen and freeze-dried starter cultures. As part of the plans, three cultures production ...
French biscuit company Poult has secured an investment of €25m from CM-CIC Investissement to support its growth plans in France as well as entire Europe. With the investment, CM-CIC Investissement has joined a pool of investors led ...
Tags: Biscuit, Qualium Investissement
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 ...
Tags: Cherkizovo, meat processing
Austria-based Schur Flexibles Group has signed an agreement to acquire majority stake in the Dutch company Drukkerij Zwart for undisclosed amount. Drukkerij Zwart is engaged in developing and producing packaging products for the food ...
Tags: Packaging, Drukkerij Zwart
Brazilian dairy cooperative Cooperoeste has begun packing its Terra Viva UHT milk into 1 litre carton packs from SIG Combibloc, following its investment in a filling machine from the European packaging equipment manufacturer. Cooperoeste ...
Tags: Carton Packs, dairy
Brazilian company Vigor, a unit of JBS Group, has selected SIG Combibloc’s CFA 812 filling machine for its new dairy plant in Barra do Piraí. Commissioned in June 2016, the $40.5m plant can process one million liters of milk ...
Tags: Dairy Plant, filling machine
Iranian firm Khoshform has selected Sacmi’s IPS 400 injection preform moulding machine to manufacture PET performs. The high-performance solution will be utilized by the Iranian firm to produce PET preforms using injection ...
Hannover, September 22, 2016 – Standing out with its unmatched product range in the European semi-trailer industry, German manufacturer Kässbohrer is presenting its transport solutions, innovative technologies and new services at ...
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 ...
Mexican food company Grupo LALA has signed a strategic agreement with the Costa Rican firm Florida Bebidas for the production, distribution and sale of LALA products in Costa Rica. The partnership is expected to enable LALA to gain access ...
France-based packaging equipment manufacturer Sidel has partnered with Brazilian oil producer Algar Agro to develop the world's lightest 900ml PET bottle for edible oil . The partners redesigned and developed the new PET bottle and ...
Tags: PET Bottle, Edible Oil
Luxembourg-based packaging maker Ardagh has signed an agreement to acquire certain metal beverage can manufacturing facilities in Europe, Brazil and the US from US-based beverage can makers Ball and Rexam for $3.42bn. The deal is a ...
Tags: Beverage Can, metal can
Constantia Flexibles announed that strong sales growth resulted from all business divisions and was achieved primarily by strong volume increases in all regions. Constantia Flexibles, one of the world's leading flexible packaging and ...
Tags: Constantia Flexibles, Sales, Earnings
Italian automotive component manufacturer Eldor will invest about $75m in the Botetourt County of Virginia, US. The plant will create 350 jobs in the region which will be Eldor's first plant in the country. The company manufactures ...