Arla Foods Ingredients has unveiled its new €120m lactose manufacturing plant in Jutland, Denmark. The move is in line with the company's strategy to cater to the growing demand for quality lactose in the infant nutrition sector. ...
Tags: new?20m lactose, infant formula, Agriculture
This 450-tonne dump truck is claimed to be the world’s largest, with a steerable axle and body components made from high-strength steel. It earned its maker Belaz a finalist place in the 2014 Swedish Steel Prize. The Swedish Steel ...
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US-based Catalyst Paper Corporation will acquire the Biron paper mill and the Rumford pulp and paper mill for around $74m. The company has entered an asset purchase agreement with NewPage Corporation, NewPage Wisconsin System and Rumford ...
Europe-based corrugated packaging provider DS Smith will be acquiring Spanish corrugated board producer, Andopack for about £35m. DS Smith said that with this strategic investment, the company would get a direct access to Spain's ...
Tags: Spain's Andropack, corrugated board producer, Agriculture
The analyst presentation that De Beers published this week on behalf of Anglo American was as revealing as the company’s much publicized Diamond Insight Report. Whether this was a once-off publication or not, the presentation was ...
Price slumps in the global commodity market continued to allow China to spend less while importing more, helping China save on enormous import bills, latest customs data showed. In the first ten months of this year, China imported 252.6 ...
Tags: commodity market, crude oil
Crown Equipment Corporation, one of the world’s largest material handling companies, recently earned a Most Valuable Pollution Prevention (MVP2) Award from the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR) in the USA. This ...
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According to a statement released by Argentina, China will China to open sorghum market to Argentina. It will create mpetition for the US farmers who have been the main beneficiaries so far of a surge in Chinese demand for the grain ...
US-based food processing company Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has temporarily halted cocoa roasting operations at its Schokinag processing plant in Germany due to fire at the plant. Early on 24 October, fire broke out in the roasting ...
Tags: cocoa roasting, food processing
Vision Paper and Board, a paper and board supplier for the packaging industries, has entered into a partnership with high-quality packaging grade Tamfold. Tamfold, which is a part of the Stora Enso group, offers its products to companies ...
The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) is financing energy efficiency improvements at the Royal Brackla Distillery, run by John Dewar & Sons, in Nairn, Scotland. The funds will be utilized, among others, for the installation of a biomass ...
Tags: UK, Green Investment Bank, Food
PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials began shipments of front-side and back-side PV silver pastes in 2013 and expects to ship 240 tonnes of the PV materials in 2014, seven times the volume of 2013 and accounting for about 20% of ...
Tags: conductive paste, Solar Materials
Swiss food giant Nestle has unveiled a new dairy farming institute in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, amid the current oversupply of dairy products in the country. The dairy farming institute includes several classrooms and three ...
ThyssenKrupp Stahl-Service-Center has invested in a blanking line, enabling the company to produce very small blanks. With the new machine, ThyssenKrupp will be able to cut slit strips measuring 0.4 to 3 millimeter thick and lengths ...
Tags: Thyssenkrupp, Blanking Line, Printing
Sri Lanka has lifted the temporary ban on Fonterra's Anchor milk powder sales after local investigation found the products to be safe for consumption and not an agent for triggering illness in children. A ban was imposed by the government ...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Milk Powder, Food