BASF has inaugurated its new production plant for concrete admixtures in Lagos, Nigeria. The production site is BASF’s answer to the increasing demand for construction chemicals in western Africa. BASF produces standard and ...
On September 25 the U.S. local time, and during President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the U.S., Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng and the responsible of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Alfonso ...
Tags: United States Agency for International Development, agriculture
US-based food manufacturer Kellogg Co is creating a joint venture with the African unit of Singapore's Tolaram Group, as part of its strategy to drive future growth in the West African market and advance its breakfast and snack food ...
Tags: Kellogg, Tolaram, breakfast, snack food
Arla has floated two joint ventures in Nigeria and Senegal in Africa, as part of its strategy to extend its network outside the European Union. The company has tied up with local partners - Tolaram in Nigeria and Attieh Group in Senegal - ...
Tags: Arla, Dairy Products, powdered milk products
The National Union of Textiles Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) and the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture ( NACCIMA) have rejected the lifting of import ban on textile products ...
Tags: Textiles Garment, import ban, textiles products, textile
Nigeria’s textiles traders are a worried lot over the increasing Chinese footprint in the country. While the proliferation of Chinese-made textiles is a boon for low income consumers, traders in Kano, northern Nigeria’s biggest ...
Tags: textile market, textiles
Abdu Bulama, minister of science and technology in the Nigerian government spoke about creating a strong partnership between his ministry and Mosanto, a producer of Bt cotton seeds. This will help in reviving the declining cotton industry ...
The quotations for the CIF Bremen Cotton Index fluctuated within a small range in the current week, compared to the previous week. The corresponding prices in Euro experienced only a marginal change as well, while the US dollar remained ...
Lebanon’s natural mineral water bottlers and distributors Tannourine Water will increase its production capacity with the installation of a Sidel Matrix Combi water line. The new Sidel water line has a capacity of producing ...
Lebanese mineral water bottler Tannourine Water will install Sidel Matrix Combi line to increase its production. Developed by beverage packaging provider Sidel, the Matrix Combi water line has a capacity to produce 31,500 bottles every ...
Tags: Sidel Matrix Combi line, Lebanese mineral water, Agriculture
While, New York cotton futures for the November trading month tended to be firm, the CIF Bremen Index remained almost unchanged in the current week. According to reports, various reasons were said to contribute to the strong December NY ...
New York cotton futures dropped precipitously this week, as December lost 346 points to close at 59.73 cents/lb, while March fell 353 points to close at 58.75 cents/lb. “The narrow five-week sideways trend ended abruptly on Monday ...
Tags: cotton futures, market report, Textile
The CIF Bremen Cotton Index remained overall firm and business stayed stable in the current week. “Cotton contracts were mainly focused on long and extra-long staple range and prompt delivery up to the end of the current ...
Tags: CIF Bremen Cotton Index, Cotton contracts, Agriculture
East Africa is undergoing a major transformation to become a new world-class player on the energy market. By 2025, east Africa is expected to experience an incremental production growth of nearly one million barrels per day (b/d), led by ...
Tags: energy market, Hydrocarbon
Hundreds of members of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and leaders from the global cocoa sector have convened in Copenhagen, Denmark to take further crucial steps toward implementing a comprehensive strategy, called CocoaAction, to sustain ...