The Asian butadiene-naphtha price spread hit a seven-year high of $2,557.38/mt CFR last Friday amid extremely tight supply globally and strong demand for downstream products such as styrene-butadiene-rubber, SB latex and ...
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Kush Bottles, a provider of packaging, supplies, accessories and branding solutions for the regulated cannabis industry, reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended 30 November 2016. First Quarter Fiscal 2017 Financial ...
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Niagara Bottling is set to invest around $95m to expand its operations in Box Elder County, Utah, US. The beverage bottling firm, along with the Economic Development Corporation of Utah (EDCUtah), has announced the expansion and capital ...
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AWT Labels & Packaging has installed a new 52” 10 color W&H Miraflex Central Impression Cylinder press at its South Elgin, Illinois facility. The new press is equipped with ten printing decks, automated wash up decks and several ...
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Demax Graphic Arts Group in Bulgaria has invested in a fully-automated Edale FL5 single-pass flexographic press to print sophisticated lottery scratch cards. The press, the first of its kind in Europe, has been installed at the Demax ...
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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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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 ...
Irish dairy products firm Ornua has entered into an agreement to supply New Zealand homemade yogurt brand EasiYo’s products in the UK and Europe. In this regard, Ornua Nutrition Ingredients (ONI) has signed a 5-year ...
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Muller Milk & Ingredients has confirmed that it will go ahead with plans to invest £60m to upgrade its network of fresh milk and ingredients dairies in Britain. The dairy network upgrade is expected to create nearly 160 jobs. As ...
Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller has acquired a 49.9% stake in meat equipment manufacturer TVI Entwicklung und Produktion based in Irschenberg, Germany for an undisclosed price. The German food packaging company, which has global ...
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Quad/Graphics has installed Fujilfilm’s J Press 720S at its commercial and specialty facility in Dallas, Texas, US. The facility produces short-run and print-on-demand catalogs, annual reports, manuals, marketing brochures, retail ...
All Printing Resources (APR) has purchased and installed Bobst M5 digital flexo press at its Glendale Heights, Illinois technical center in the US. Featuring easy drop-in Bobst Ready technology, the eight-color BOBST ‘unlimited ...
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Mazda Motor has started the production of CX-3 subcompact crossover SUV at Hofu Plant No.1 in Yamaguchi, Japan. The move strengthens the automaker's supply system for SUV vehicles, demand for which continues to grow globally. Hofu Plant ...
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Finland-based pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso has divested its 100% stake in packaging machine producer Formeca to Amitec for undisclosed amount. Formeca, Stora Enso’s Finnish subsidiary, is engaged in providing high-quality ...
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German conglomerate BASF opened a new technical application laboratory for its nutrition and health business in Singapore to bolster its research and development footprint in the region. Located at Singapore Polytechnic and named as ...
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