Brewing major Anheuser-Busch will invest $170m to expand its Metal Container Corporation (MCC) facility in Jacksonville, in the US state of Florida. The proposed expansion will ramp up Budweiser and Bud Light aluminum bottles ...
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UK-based brewing company Morrow Brothers has opened a new bottling plant in Buckshaw Village, near Chorley in Lancashire. The new plant has received a £23,750 grant from Chorley Council for the purchase of bottling equipment, ...
AkzoNobel plans to invest more than €1.3 million to build a pilot plant for coating resins at its Performance Coatings site located in Felling, UK. The state-of-the-art facility - which will create three new jobs and safeguard a ...
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New York State governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that GE Global Research Center of Niskayuna, NY, USA will expand its New York global operations to the Mohawk Valley, serving as the anchor tenant of the Computer Chip Commercialization ...
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BASF inaugurated its new resin and electrocoat plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) in Shanghai. In line with BASF’s approach to stay close to customers worldwide, this new plant will further strengthen BASF’s ...
Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative will build a $62m turkey processing facility in Hinton, a move that creates new jobs. The expansion will increase the company's poultry production by over 45% to cater to the increasing consumer demand ...
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Haiti’s apparel sector has just got a shot in the arm. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has decided to invest $4 million to help The Willbes Haitian S.A., a subsidiary of South Korea-based ...
Tags: apparel manufacture, IFC, knits, sweaters, woven products, microfibers
Canned vegetable products manufacturer McCall Farms is planning to open a new production facility in Effingham, South Carolina. When operational this month, the facility will expand the company's existing Florence County operations, while ...
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Huon Aquaculture has opened a new Smokehouse and Product Innovation Centre in Parramatta Creek, in the north of Tasmania, creating 70 new jobs. The move is in line with the company's controlled growth strategy to invest close to $160m in ...
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US-based Niagara Bottling has chosen a site at Seguin in Texas to construct its new water bottling factory. Construction of the 557,000 ft2 facility is scheduled to commence in near future and be completed by early 2016. The factory ...
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Dreams will open its first store in the North-east in Portrack Lane, Stockton-on-Tees, on Friday. The first of six new store openings in the region, including a forthcoming unit in Gateshead, the launch of the Stockton-on-Tees store has ...
Swiss food major Nestle is reportedly planning to invest around $120m in a new production plant in Dubai, the UAE. Expected to become operational by the end of this year, the plant will produce coffee and culinary products. The proposed ...
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C North America today announced it is investing $22 million in its Dothan facility in order to increase the production of its high-performance light truck and SUV passenger tires. Michelin said the investment will create about 40 new jobs ...
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Australian-based Beston Global Food Company has revealed it has acquired milk producer United Dairy Power from the receivers. The South Australian based United Dairy Power which was an aggregator of milk suppliers across Victoria and ...
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Net profit at Spain based Inditex Group, the biggest global apparel marketer soared 28 per cent year on year in the first fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2015. In the three months to April 30, 2015, an Inditex Group press release, said its ...
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