Vion Food UK has announced it could be forced to close its loss-making pork processing plant in West Lothian, Scotland, putting nearly 1,700 jobs at risk. According to the company, the Hall's of Broxburn continued to record unsustainable ...
A new milk processing plant has been opened in Malungon province in Sarangani, Philippines, which is expected to strengthen the diary industry in the area and provide income for dairy farmers. The project has been funded by Land O` Lakes ...
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Vion Food UK is set to close its loss-making Hall's of Broxburn pork processing plant in West Lothian, Scotland, a move which will lead to a loss of 1,700 jobs. Vion Food, which rejected two offers for the site, stated that neither of the ...
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Cogenra Solar, a provider of distributed solar cogeneration systems, has announced the installation of its solar cogeneration system at the Clover Stornetta Farms' dairy processing plant in Petaluma, California, in the US. According to ...
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Potential buyers of Vion Food's pork processing plant in UK are being evaluated and talks are ongoing with the owners, according to Scottish government's finance secretary John Swinney. The second meeting of the Hall's of Broxburn ...
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Swiss agribusiness company Syngenta has opened a $100m sugarcane processing plant in Brazil. The sugar produced at the plant will be exported to China. Syngenta sugarcane business director Daniel Bachner said that China's increasing ...
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Northstar Agri Industries,a subsidiary of US-based PICO Holdings,plans to set up a canola processing facility in Enid,Oklahoma,US. The new facility will have a processing capacity of 2,200 tons of canola per day or 760,000 tons ...
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The US Gulf Coast non-LST purity ethane assessment has fallen to its lowest level since August 2002, according to Platts data, a move attributed to increasing supplies form shale gas plays across the US. Ethane has fallen 68% on the ...
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Argex Titanium Inc. is pleased to announce that it has engaged Genivar Inc., a Canadian engineering services firm and one of the world’s leading professional services organizations, to conduct a feasibility study to establish the ...
Zong Qinghou,the chairman and CEO of the Chinese beverage firm Hangzhou Wahaha,is planning to set up A$200m($207.65m)milk powder processing plant in Busselton,Australia. Zong Qinghou met agriculture minister Terry Redman and also met ...
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US meat company Sanderson Farms plans to establish a new chicken processing plant in Nash County,North Carolina,US.The plant would process about 50 million chickens annually,and create 1,100 jobs. Sanderson Farms chairman and CEO Joe ...
US-based pork processor Smithfield Foods is set to initiate its previously announced closure of its meat facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, which produces deli meat and hot dogs. The company noted that the layoffs will first begin in ...
Indian conglomerate ITC is planning to set up a food processing plant in the upcoming mega food park in Murshidabad district,West Bengal. The company is in negotiations to purchase a five-acre land in the food park,which is promoted by ...
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Nickel Asia Corporation said that the cost of building the Philippines' second nickel processing plant, due to be completed in 2013, will rise 22% to USD 1.59 billion, swelled by higher material prices and changes in specifications. ...
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Proactive Investors reported that Anglesey Mining described the half year, to end of September, as 1 of mixed fortunes. The group's 19.7% owned iron mining associate Labrador Iron Mines improved its operations substantially with a big ...
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