McCain Foods, a frozen food company based in Canada, is set to close its Penola potato processing plant in South Australia by the end of this year, while leaving 59 jobs at risk. The decision has been taken due to rising input costs, raw ...
Tags: McCain Foods, Potato Processing
NOV Mono Industrial has announced the appointment of Dave Johnson as the new Managing Director for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Islands, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The appointment marks the ...
SMILOG has partnered with Vocollect, becoming a Vocollect Total Solution Provider (TSP) in Australia. This partnership means that SMILOG can now provide the full range of Vocollect hardware and software solutions across its Australian ...
The Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale four-seater has launched in Australia with two extra seats and a $20K lower price tag than the limited edition two-seater on which it’s based. Maserati Australia has confirmed the addition of the ...
The exports of garments and textiles from Vietnam increased by 18 percent year-on-year in the first nine months of the current year to US$ 13.154 billion, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Of this, the ...
Tags: Garment Exports, fabric exports
American wine and spirits company Brown-Forman is set to restructure its Asia Pacific (APAC) area into two new regions, beginning 1 November 2013. Under the new plan, the company's existing APAC region will be divided into the Australia, ...
Flat glass exports from Liaoning province reached 4.68 million metric tons in the first eight months of 2013, up 35 percent year-on-year, according to Shenyang Customs. The total export volume was $24.79 million. The glass, widely used in ...
Tags: Flat glass, automobile industry
Cytori Therapeutics has obtained approval from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore for the Celution system, designed for autologous re-implantation or re-infusion of a patient’s own adipose-derived regenerative cells ...
Tags: Celution System, Medicine
Methanex Corporation has reached a number of key milestones with respect to its near-term capacity growth objectives in New Zealand, Canada and Chile. On October 4, 2013, the company successfully produced its first methanol from the newly ...
Tags: Operating Capacity, Methanex
On 30 September 2013, GPG announced the sale of its entire shareholding (33.6%) in TOWER Limited for £60.7million (NZ$118.3 million). TOWER Limited represented the last material investment for GPG (excluding Coats) and the imminent ...
Brand design agency bluemarlin has created packaging for Swiss food giant Nestlé’s new range of WONKA chocolate blocks, launched in August this year. The range includes four varieties Triple Chocolate Whipple, Nutty ...
Tags: Chocolate Blocks, Packaging
Just a boat ride down the Waitomo Glowworm Grotto in New Zealand will lead you to a special cave filled with millions of tiny little glowing worms. Upon entering the cave you may feel as if you have entered a completely new solar system, ...
Tags: Larvae Bums, Lighting
Fonterra, a New Zealand-based dairy co-operative, is in talks with French food manufacturer Danone to resolve a dispute following the whey protein concentrate precautionary recall initiated in August 2013. The recall of infant milk ...
Tags: Fonterra, Agriculture
Milmeq, a New Zealand-based food processing systems provider, has secured a A$18m ($21m) contract from Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) to provide processing equipment for its new facility at Livingstone Valley in the Northern ...
Tags: Food Processing Systems, Food
AMI, which claims to be the world's largest trade-only airfreight and express wholesaler, has officially launched its 'click2ship' service in Australia after a successful three-month pilot. Click2ship was first launched in the UK in 2010. ...
Tags: Service