The Ontario Government is helping pork processor Conestoga Meat Packers to expand local production and bring 170 new jobs to Waterloo Region. The government is investing up to C$5.3m ($4.35m) as part of its C$2.7bn ($2.2bn) Jobs and ...
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Packaging solutions provider CSP Technologies is expanding its Auburn manufacturing facility in Alabama, US for increased manufacturing and warehousing space. The manufacturing and warehousing capacity of the facility is being expanded by ...
Tags: Packaging, warehousing space
A new €8.1m five-year research and innovation program, focusing specifically on meat processing, has been launched at the Teagasc Ashtown Research Centre in Dublin. Dubbed as Meat Technology Ireland (MTI), the program has been ...
Tags: Beef, Sheep Meat
The European Commission (EC) has approved the joint acquisition of Slaney Foods JV and Slaney Proteins by ABP Group and Fane Valley. The proposal for acquisition of the stake has been cleared unconditionally by Europe’s competition ...
Tags: EC, joint acquisition, ABP, Fane Valley
Coca-Cola bottling firms Kandhari Beverages and Enrich Agro Food Products are planning to invest Rs5.1bn ($75.6m) to build manufacturing lines in Haryana state. A memoranda of understanding in this regards has been signed by the two ...
Tags: Coca-Cola Bottlers, Food Products
The UK fishermen will now be able to apply for a share in the €243m new European Maritime and Fisheries Funding (EMFF) to mold their businesses according to the modified Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), which intends to aid their ...
An outbreak of cautious optimism in optics and laser markets is fueling the hope that the economic slowdown may be over. Not all vendors are cheerful however, with the order books of some in the materials processing sector continuing to ...
As part of the 11th International Laser Marketplace – the bi-annual industry conference staged at LASER World of Photonics in Munich – Dr Kunihiko Washio, CEO of Paradigm Laser Research (Tokyo, Japan) gave a presentation on the ...
The Government of Punjab, a northern state of India, has received 55 investment proposals worth Rs 80bn ($1.22bn) for the establishment of food processing units. Among the interested parties, food conglomerate ITC and Poland's offers ...
Poland has reportedly put forward plans to invest in food processing technologies and farm machinery in the Indian state of Punjab. The move is expected to double the bilateral trade between the two countries to $5bn by 2018, Financial ...
Vietnam’s textile and garment industry attracted a majority of the biggest foreign direct investment (FDI) projects approved in the first six months of this year though many provinces had earlier announced they would keep away from ...
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The PEFC leaders’ summit, recently held in London, encouraged consumers to buy day‐to‐day products carrying the PEFC ‘two trees’ label. The summit discussed the challenges and possible solutions to ...
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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 ...
The Government of Ireland, along with industry partners, will invest €35m in the construction of a new dairy facility in the University of Limerick and the expansion of Teagasc’s Moorepark Technology in Fermoy, Cork. This is ...
Tags: Dairy Processing, Dairy
Australian vegetable and potato growers’ representative body AusVeg has called for Australia to follow the UK’s lead and put in place a plan to source government-procured food from local suppliers and producers. UK Prime ...
Tags: Australian, AusVeg, Food