US-based agribusiness company Monsanto has announced to invest $975m over the next three years to expand its manufacturing site in Luling, Louisiana. The investment will also support the launch of Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System, a seed ...
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Stevia ingredient producer PureCircle is planning to invest $200m in India’s stevia infrastructure in the next five years. The company is planning to collaborate with thousands of Indian farmers to plant 5,000 hectares of stevia ...
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BOC has signed an agreement with ITM Power to provide infrastructure for ITM Power’s new electrolyser-based hydrogen refueling stations for passenger cars. The announcement underpins ITM Power's ongoing plans to build a network of ...
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Mondelez International has entered into a strategic partnership with Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba Group to expand its presence in China. The alliance enables Chinese consumers to lay hands on a complete range of Mondelez products, ...
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total US$3.49 trillion in 2016, a decline of 0.5% over 2015 spending of US$3.5 trillion, according to Gartner. This is down from last quarter's forecast of 0.5% growth. The change in the forecast is ...
Tags: device market, printers
Australian governments have spent unprecedented sums on transport infrastructure in the past decade, and while important projects have been built the overall investment has been poorly directed, according to a new Grattan Institute report. ...
Paul Zalai. On the 30th of March, 2016, at their Annual General Meeting, members of the Australian Peak Shippers Association (APSA) agreed unanimously to merge with Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA), Australia’s leading body for ...
Swedish car company Volvo announced that it will be testing its autonomous vehicles in China with local drivers and on public roads in every day driving conditions. For this experiment, Volvo will use 100 autonomous cars. In the ...
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X-Rite and its subsidiary Pantone expanded its PantoneLIVE cloud-based solution for digitally communicating color with a new service that helps printers and packaging converters manage color libraries. The new PantoneLIVE Rationalization ...
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Schaeffler, a German supplier of rolling element bearings to automotive and aerospace industry has unveiled a bio-hybrid powered personal mobility concept vehicle. The company says that increasing traffic and increasing emission levels in ...
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Fifty BEIBENTRUCK tractors were delivered to end-users in Burma with cooperation between BEIBENTRUCK Import & Export Co., Ltd. and its partners recently. Those customers who want to buy those tractors came to the KD plant of BEIBENTRUCK ...
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Britannia Garment Packaging has selected iomart to provide hosting for a new global ERP and CRM system for its ordering division. The software sits on a VMware platform in one of the two data centres iomart owns in the Midlands. Neil ...
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The United States is expected to be the most competitive manufacturing nation, moving China into the number two position by 2020, according to the 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index report from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited ...
BPI Sports, a sports nutrition company, has announced that it will no longer be utilizing the services of 3rd party distributors. BPI Sports will instead be utilizing their own current infrastructure to distribute straight to retail. This ...
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to make $100m equity investment in Egypt-based United Sugar Company (USC), which is also a subsidiary of Savola Group, to strengthen the agribusiness sector in the ...
Tags: EBRD, Investment, USC, United Sugar Company, Savola Group