India’s FMCG start-up Global Consumer Products is set to enter the country’s chocolate business with a new brand. The start-up plans to launch its own brand initially in the four southern states early next year, Business Line ...
BASF broke ground on a new Innovation Campus in Navi Mumbai, India. The company will invest approximately €50 million via BASF Chemicals India Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE. The facility will accommodate around ...
Tags: BASF, Innovation Campus, Construction
The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has found that around a quarter of purified drinking water in the country is contaminated with excessive levels of bacteria. The Shanghai Daily newspaper reported that bacteria was found ...
Tags: Purified Drinking Water, CFDA
According to the data from National Statistics, China's cereal output of this year reaches 607.099 million tons, 5.16 millions more than 2013, up 0.9%. The grain output was 557.269 million tons, up 0.8% on 2013. Cereal output has achieved ...
Deep Eddy Vodka has expanded its line of vodkas made from real, premium ingredients with the introduction of Lemon, a zesty lemon-infused vodka made with quality, all-natural flavors including real lemon juice and Texas aquifer water. ...
Tags: lemon juice, aquifer water, Agriculture
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the cumulative results from the first two quarters of its year-long survey of campylobacter on fresh chickens, which showed that 70 per cent of chicken sold in UK supermarkets were ...
Tags: Chicken, Campylobacter Bacteria
The greenhouse gas that is twenty times more harmful than carbon dioxide, methane, may become the feedstock for a material that helps reduce our dependency on plastic in its current form. Methane, as you know, is generated by the natural ...
Tags: methane, carbon dioxide, Packaging
Grohe AG, one of world-leading suppliers of sanitary faucets and fittings, is among the top three winners of the 2014 German Sustainability Award. Due to its commitment to the responsible use of water and energy, GROHE was one of three ...
Tags: sanitary faucets, fittings, Furniture
British agribusiness Sundrop Farms has secured $100m in investment from private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co ( KKR ) to ramp up vegetable production. The investment will be used in the expansion of Sundrop Farms' greenhouse ...
Tags: vegetable, Agriculture
Organisers of ISPO, Messe München have announced dates for the first ISPO Shanghai, which will run from July 2-4, 2015 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, China. “This is Messe München response to mounting ...
Tags: ISPO, seasonal sports, Apparel
Live Oak Brewing in the US has broken ground on a new brewery in Austin, Texas, a move that will ramp up the company's production capacity. The proposed brewery will include a custom German-built brewhouse, millroom, lab, cold storage and ...
Tags: Brewery, cold storage, Agriculture
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing an affordable and environment-friendly alternative for expanded polystyrene (EPS) from PLA bioplastic, which is derived from organic sources. This polystyrene alternative can be ...
Driven by a large fall in the area planted to cotton, the production of white gold in Australia is forecast to fall by almost half in 2014-15, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES). ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton
Munich-based chemical company Wacker is expanding its product range of functional silanes with a new arylalkoxysilane monomer. Marketed as Geniosil XL 70, this additive is designed as a water scavenger for silane-curing adhesive and sealant ...
Tags: arylalkoxysilane monomer, chemical company, Construction
Methanex, the world’s largest producer and supplier of methanol to major international markets, has decreased its regional contract price for the Asia-Pacific and North American regions for December contracts. For the Asia-Pacific ...