Brenton has announced the launch of its new servo indexing case packer, BrentonPro Mach-2P, which occupies smaller floor space on the packaging line. The machine has been designed for medical and pharmaceutical industries. The all-servo ...
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Morrisons insisted this morning (3 May) that it has made a "satisfactory" start to the year, despite booking its first drop in like-for-like sales since 2005. Like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of store openings, fell 1% ...
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Thai polyester and PET manufacturer Indorama Ventures (IVL) has announced plans to set up a new plant in the US with a capacity to produce 540,000t of PET polymers annually. According to the company, the expansion, which is expected to be ...
US retailer Kroger will stop selling fresh sprouts today (22 October) over concerns that the vegetable represents a food safety risk. According to Payton Pruett, Kroger's vice president of food safety, the decision was based on the ...
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South African packaging company Nampak is focusing specially on Zambia, which is a part of its overall strategy to generate at least 25% of its revenue from the rest of Africa, besides South Africa, Angola, Kenya and Nigeria, by 2017. ...
A fall in production has hit half-year profits at UK-listed palm oil processor New Britain Palm Oil. CEO Nick Thompson said heavy rain made it harder to collect and transport fresh fruit bunches. The wet weather also meant the fruit ...
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Design-to-print graphics services provider SGS International has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Southern Graphic Systems acquired Stevenson Color in the US. Stevenson Color, which provides graphics services to branded ...
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US c-store operator The Pantry has reported lower third-quarter profits as an impairment charge and lower fuel sales weighed on earnings. In the three months ended 28 June, earnings dropped to US$14.8m from $19m in the comparable period ...
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McCain Foods has signed a deal to buy the potato division of Belgian vegetable supplier PinguinLutosa. The deal, announced today (19 October), is based on an enterprise value of the division of EUR225m (US$293.2m). It encompasses ...
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US-based Seven Mile Capital Partners, a private equity firm, announced the sale of its portfolio company Waddington North America (WNA) to Olympus Partners, for an undisclosed sum. Seven Mile, which was created after it was hived off from ...
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US-based Mann Packing is substituting its black vegetable platter packaging with a clear tray that gives more produce using less plastic. The vegetable platter, labeled vegetable tray, does away with the clear, hard lid for a peel-back ...
Nestle has relaunched its Vice Versas chocolate brand in the UK. Last on shelves in 2005, the launch, Nestle said, is in response to public demand. The Vice Versas sharing bag of bite-size white and milk chocolate pieces will be ...
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Build on Therma-Tech thermally conductive polymer formulations,PolyOne Corporation has received the 2012 Ringier Technology Innovation Award for the Plastics Industry.These advanced materials have been recognized for their role in making ...
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National Instruments co-founder and CEO Dr.James Truchard will be joined by Dr.Robert Mullins,co-founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation at NIDays 2012,the annual Graphical System Design conference which takes place in London ...
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Apollo Goessnitz GmbH(Germany),recently acquired subsidiary of HMS Group,concluded a contract for production and delivery of KRPH-250,ZPRS-150/400 and TGC-50B/14 process pumps for Gudrun oil and gas field operated by Statoil. All the ...