Thailand-based melamine producer Srithai Superware has announced plans to invest THB900m ($28m) in 2012, as part of its aim to expand its business. The company will spend THB550m ($17m) on installing new machines and molds for its plastic ...
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With only one in 10 sheets of copy paper being recycled in Australia, Planet Ark has introduced the Friday File Fling to its range of activities for this year's National Recycling Week (12-18 November). Friday 16 November has been ...
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Reportedly, Steel Dynamics Structural and Rail Division invested a new heat-treating machine at Columbia City, Indiana. Mark D. Millett, the Chief Executive Officer of Steel Dynamics said this investment will allow the company to ...
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Flexible packaging company Ampac has announced the addition of Inno-Lok, a new method of applying a reclosable zipper transversely to packaging films producing pre-zippered roll stock film which can be used in form, fill, seal packaging ...
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Invista has entered into a development agreement with biotechnology firm LanzaTech for bio-based butadiene, a chemical used in the production of various plastics. The companies will jointly work on projects to develop one-step and ...
Talenti Gelato, an ice cream producer based in Minnesota, US, has bought a former Kroger ice cream production plant in Marietta, Georgia, creating 100 new jobs. Talenti currently manufactures its products at its plant in Dallas, Texas. It ...
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Henkel has announced the acquisition of the pressure sensitive adhesives (PSA) product range from the US-based specialty chemicals company Cytec Industries, with effective from 1 August 2012. According to Henkel, both companies signed the ...
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Italian luxury carmaker Ferrari has signed EUR50m agreement with Fiat to develop and build new engines for its top models including Maserati, Alfa Romeo and Lancia. As per the agreement, Ferrari will produce two new engines including ...
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Tulip, a leading producer of processed food in Denmark, has improved the efficiency of its existing gas flushing system and lowered costs with the installation of new equipment from MAP specialist PBI-Dansensor. The company installed the ...
Tags: sausages, installed equipment, analyzer, gas mixer
US-owned warehouse retailer Costco will build its second Melbourne store at Ringwood, in the city's outer east. Around 400 people are expected to be employed at the store, which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2013. In ...
Plastic packaging producer in the US, Amcor Rigid Plastics is set to develop its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) wine bottles with both synthetic and natural corks. The addition of corks to the PET wine bottles makes them look like ...
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Heaven Hill Distilleries, a US-based spirits producer and marketer, is introducing its new super-premium Larceny Bourbon, the follow-up to the wheated Bourbons, part of the Fitzgerald franchise that Heaven Hill acquired in 1999. The ...
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Global company engaged in resealable solutions and equipment Zip-Pak is set to open a new manufacturing facility in São Paulo, Brazil. The plant will expand technical and consulting services to customers in Brazil, Argentina, and ...
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CHS,a US-based energy,grains and foods company,has announced that it will be the exclusive off-take company for the urea fertilizer produced by the Summit Texas Clean Energy Project,a plant at Penwell,Texas. CHS will also be a minor ...
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Flour Mills of Nigeria plans to seek approval from shareholders to purchase a 90% controlling stake in Rom Oil Mills, a vegetable and edible oil refining business based in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria. This move is part of the company's ...
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