Archer Daniels Midland Company has begun a significant expansion and modernization of its export terminal in Santos, in the Brazilian state of So Paulo. The project will expand the facility's annual storage and grain handling capacity ...
US based grain-handling and food-processing firm Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is set to add soybean crushing capability at its plant at Enderlin, North Dakota and Windsor, Ontario. The plant currently has the ability to process canola ...
Private equity firm Fanisi Capital has invested $2.1m in a Kenyan food company European Foods Africa Limited (EFAL) to expand its investment footprint across East Africa’s food processing sector. The food company will use this fund ...
Egypt has signed two investment agreements worth $6bn in a bid to develop a global logistics centre for grain handling and a city of commerce and shopping project. DN Egypt reported citing country's supply minister Khaled Hanafy that the ...
Tags: grains, basic food commodities trade, wheat
Viterra Inc. ("Viterra"), Canada's grain industry leader, is pleased to announce that it is executing on a transformative series of operational improvements and upgrades at its Pacific Terminal at Port Metro Vancouver. The project is ...
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Kansas State University will offer a combustible grain dust prevention workshop teaching advanced mitigation methods on Feb. 26 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm in Omaha, Neb. following the 2014 GEAPS (Grain Elevator and Processing Society) Exchange. ...
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Some grain may have gone into storage last fall at higher than recommended moisture contents. Now is the time to check stored grain thoroughly and take steps to maintain the grain quality. “Search for small changes that are ...
Tags: Grain, Ken Hellevang, Aeration, storage problems
The president of the Canola Council of Canada says she realizes the Council's plans for increasing canola production are ambitious, but she argues they are still realistic. The CCC announced last week that it's aiming for 26 million ...
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A bold plan for boosting canola production was unveiled by the Canola Council of Canada yesterday. After reaching its "Growing Great 2015" target of 15 million tonnes of annual production two years early, the organization that represents ...
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Archer Daniels Midland Company today announced a package of additional commitments related to its proposed acquisition of GrainCorp Limited. Key elements of that package are: An additional A$200 million investment to strengthen ...
Conveyors are vital resources for aggregate mining. That equipment will come in many different forms and each one includes a specific benefit. For this reason, we can say that not all sort of conveyor will be usable for the work. Some forms ...
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Craft Brewer Taps into Cost Savings with Switch-Rated Plugs Bells Brewery, Inc., a craft brewery that produces a full line of ales, beers, and stouts, has specified for its construction expansion projects Meltric DecontactorTM?Series ...
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US agribusiness firm Cargill has reported that its net earnings declined by 42% for the third quarter of 2013 to $445m, compared with $766m in the same period of 2012 due to severe US drought that affected the company's meat processing ...
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Canada-based natural and organic food group SunOpta has acquired the Bulgarian grain handling and processing facility of Organic Land Corp. The purchase of the Silistra-based facility, a strategic supplier for SunOpta, was made for ...
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Canada-based Lambton Conveyor is set to receive a funding from the government for the expansion of its grain handling and storage equipment manufacturing operations. Under the FedDev Ontario's Prosperity Initiative, the government will ...
Tags: grain handling facility, grain handling, storage equipment