The Irish Dairy Board (IDB) has inaugurated a new $12m cheese manufacturing plant at its Thiel Cheese & Ingredients (Thiel) operations in Wisconsin. The new facility, which marks the completion of an $80m expansion project in its US Food ...
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American paints and coatings supplier PPG Industries has announced its plans to invest about $40m in its coatings manufacturing facility in Sumare, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The expansion project will add a 65,000-square-foot plant for on-site ...
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Power management company Eaton today announced the winners of the 37th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition held by its Cooper Lighting Division. The winners were recognized at LIGHTFAIR® International 2014 held on ...
Major Indian steelmaker JSW Steel (JSW) has announced its financial and operational results for the fourth quarter ended March 31 of the financial year 2013-14, posting a net profit of INR 4.62 billion ($78.4 million), up 40.8 percent year ...
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Saudi Arabia's Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company or Petro Rabigh's second phase expansion project has turned it into one of the strongest "volume growth stories" in the country's chemical industry, UK-based bank HSBC said in a ...
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China-based polysilicon maker Daqo New Energy has almost doubled its annual production capacity from 6,200 tonnes to 12,000 tonnes in an expansion project totaling US$22 million, and will invest another US$59 million to further expand ...
Tags: Polysilicon, Metallurgy, Mineral
Australian miner Rio Tinto has announced that its Pilbara iron ore operations have reached a run rate of 290 million mt per year, two months ahead of schedule. Rio Tinto said that early completion of expansion has added significant value ...
SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers, a joint venture between the BMW Group and SGL Group, has broken ground on the site expansion project in Moses Lake, Washington in the US. The expansion will be funded by an investment of $200m, which includes ...
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AkzoNobel inaugurated its new, highly efficient chlorine membrane electrolysis plant in the Rhein-Main area, Germany. The Frankfurt-based plant is the result of a major conversion and expansion project begun in 2011 and involving a ...
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Graphic Packaging International has received approval from the Ohio Tax Credit Authority for a 40%, six-year tax credit for its expansion project. The company plans to create $708,864 in new annual payroll as part of the expansion project ...
Flexible packaging converter American Packaging has announced expansion plans at its facility in Columbus with an investment of $22.6m. As part of the expansion project, the company will add 37,000ft2 for a new finishing department at the ...
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Indian refiner Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd is close to completing the long-drawn-out third phase of its expansion project, which will see a new petroleum fluid catalytic cracker and delayed coker unit come onstream at its 15 ...
Tags: Refinery Expansion, Metallurgy
US-based WS Packaging Group is set expand its current business operations in Knoxville by opening a new location in the PBR Building, located at 10215 Caneel Dr. The company, which will also consolidate its Knoxville facilities to the new ...
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US-based Menasha Packaging, a subsidiary of Menasha Corporation, has expanded its Folding Carton Group facility located at Neenah in Wisconsin. The expansion project was carried out to add 26,500ft2 to the initial 109,000ft2 facility, and ...
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US-based packaging products supplier Burrows Paper has started a simultaneous conversion and expansion project at its plants. The project is part of the company's plan to expand Burrows domestic paper and global packaging business groups. ...