Food firm Tulip, part of the Danish Crown group, has acquired UK pig producer Easey. Easey Holdings Ltd is a family-owned pig farming operation consisting of four key divisions – breeding herds(sows), growing herds, a veterinary ...
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Chicken producer Pilgrim's Pride has agreed to acquire JBS’ British poultry unit Moy Park for $1.3bn to expand its portfolio of prepared foods. By adding Moy Park’s operations in the UK and Continental Europe, Pilgrim's Pride ...
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The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) has announced that STIHL Inc. and Goodwill Industries International are the winners of the 2017 Excellence in Reusable Packaging award. Two award categories were established in 2017: one to ...
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Seaboard Triumph Foods (STF) is set to begin commercial operations at its new pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa from 5 September 2017. STF said that the new facility will make use of robotics and other technologies to supply a ...
SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (an Orbotech company that manufactures etch, PVD and CVD wafer processing solutions for the MEMS, advanced packaging, LED, high-speed RF on GaAs, and power management device markets) has won a ...
UK-based bakery products manufacturer Finsbury Food Group is planning to close its Grain D'Or bakery business, putting around 250 jobs at risk. The company said that Grain D'Or has been historically loss making even after implementing ...
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NXT Capital has provided a senior secured credit facility to support Oliver Printing & Packaging’s acquisition of Pohlig Packaging. Oliver Printing & Packaging is a portfolio company of Pfingsten. NXT Capital acted as the Sole ...
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Flexible liquid packaging solutions manufacturer Liqui-Box has earned NSF/ANSI 18 certification for their QCD series connectors from global public health organization NSF International. The Liqui-Box QCD series connectors include the ...
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) is merging its operations in Russia and Ukraine with Turkey's brewer, Anadolu Efes. The companies plan to merge their businesses in a 50-50 merger and create a new company to be known as AB InBev-Efes. ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has released its annual sustainability report, ...
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Mexican dairy company Grupo Lala has agreed to acquire Brazil-based dairy and food firm Vigor Alimentos for BRL 5.725 bn ($1.84bn). The deal follows approval by Grupo Lala’s board of directors, with the favorable opinion of the ...
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Nelipak Healthcare Packaging has joined The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC), a private technical coalition of industry peers across healthcare, recycling and waste management industries seeking to improve recyclability of ...
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Cold Chain Technologies (CCT), a manufacturer of cost-effective lines of thermal packaging solutions, and the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA), have announced a new two-day course offering. The "Temperature Sensitive Packaging and ...
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The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) has recently adopted a position on use of degradable additives in plastic packaging. The institute has recently passed a series of changes to its policy positions, as well as a new policy ...
Ultimate TechnoGraphics has joined the Ghent Workgroup (GWG), an international organization of graphic arts users, associations & developers building best practices for publishing, print and packaging workflows. Industry experts, ...
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