2 Sisters Food, England-based chicken meat processing company, is set to close its chicken-processing plant at Haughley Park, Suffolk on 15 November, leaving 600 jobs at risk. The decision follows consultations with staff and unions to ...
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Suffolk-based Spectra Packaging has introduced an "environmentally friendly biopolymer" to its range of products. According to the company, it can now offer its customers plastic packaging made from ethanol from sugarcane as opposed to ...
Construction has now started on one of the UK's largest (32MWp )solar farms at the site of a former World War II airfield in Suffolk. Lark Energy developed the project, working closely with landowner, Navigator Land LLP. The solar farm ...
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Pioneer Pump Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Electric Co., recently announced that it has completed the purchase of the assets of Performance Pump and Equipment Company Limited of Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK. Performance Pump ...
It is just over one week until Lighting and the AJ host a panel discussion on the subject of office lighting (Designing the workspace of the future) and the final part of the speaker line-up has been confirmed. Andrew Bissell, lighting ...
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UK-based 2 Sisters Food has announced that it is evaluating the closure of a roast chicken plant at Haughley Park, Suffolk, England, a move which will result in about 630 job losses. This announcement comes after the company publicly ...
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Following completion of Lark Energy's first phase of large scale solar projects, totalling 60MWp, the company has recently secured planning permission for a further 100MWp of solar farms. Projects include two former airfields in Suffolk: ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar
A three-wheeled wheelchair was built in 1655 or 1680 by a disabled German man, Stephan Farffler, who wanted to be able to maintain his mobility. Since he was a watch-maker, he was able to create a vehicle that was powered by hand cranks. ...
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Turkey processor Bernard Matthews has blamed the pressure of rising commodity prices for putting 55 jobs under threat at its cooked meats site in Great Witchingham, Norfolk. Rising input prices have put 55 jobs under threat at Bernard ...
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Governments routinely use the internet to spy on people and organisations, and to steal sensitive and classified information - and we'd all better get used to it. That is the message from Chinese' networking company Huawei's head of ...
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PepsiCo and its independent bottlers Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV) and the Honickman Group's Pepsi-Cola Bottling (PCNY) have announced their intent to transfer certain franchise ownerships in New York, North Carolina, Idaho and Vermont. ...
There is no denying that given the current state of our society, there is a definite need for fine-tuned waste management services. The onus lies with the governments as well as the citizens to save the environmental from getting ...
Nowadays, there is an increasing need to keep the society protected from all the contaminants emanated by industries. In order to make the milieu protected and habitable, it is crucial to take care of the surroundings in an end-to-end ...
At Cantifix we love to use the skills of our in-house development teams to improve and add to our ever-evolving product range – and this enormous, curved, sliding glass roof, which is currently being fitted in Suffolk has given us the ...
UK-based Premier Foods has completed the sale of its sweet pickles and table sauces business to Japanese food firm Mizkan for pound 92.5m in cash. The companies had entered into an agreement over the deal on 30 October 2012. This move is ...
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