Constellium has opened a new plant in White, Georgia, which will produce advanced aluminium automotive structural components and crash management systems. The 135,000 sq. ft. facility is strategically located to supply automakers in the ...
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Moosehead Breweries, which is considered to be Canada's oldest independent beer firm, is celebrating its 150 years of family brewing. When Susannah Oland opened the Army and Navy Brewery in 1867, she hoped to create a business that could ...
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Loews has agreed to acquire US-based rigid plastic packaging manufacturer Consolidated Container Company (CCC) from Bain Capital Private Equity for about $1.2bn. Based in Atlanta of Georgia, CCC offers packaging solutions to stable end ...
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Inventure Foods has agreed to divest Fresh Frozen Foods to The Pictsweet Company for nearly $23.7m in an all-cash deal. The strategic sale by Inventure Foods was announced during an ongoing company review process aimed at improving ...
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Honda has invested about $150m to start US production of new 10-speed automatic transmission. Honda launched global production of a new, state-of-the-art 10-speed automatic transmission at Honda Precision Parts of Georgia, LLC (HPPG) in ...
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Graphic Packaging International, Inc., announced the appointment of Spencer Maurer as senior vice president, Supply Chain In this expanded role he is accountable for the global supply network, overall quality processes and Lean and Six ...
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Private equity firm Kohlberg & Company has agreed to acquire Pexco, a North American specialty plastics manufacturer, from Odyssey Investment Partners. Upon completion of the deal closes, Pexco will merge with Kolhberg portfolio company ...
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Pork Rinds & Snacks is recalling approximately 7,629 pounds of pork skin products that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. The ready-to-eat ...
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to provide €18.5m of loan to Global Beer Georgia (GBG) to construct and operate a greenfield brewery in Georgia. It will be a syndicated loan package which will ...
China plans to seal free trade agreements with 40 percent of the countries and regions along the Belt and Road Initiative in 2017, officials said on Tuesday. The nation had already established FTAs or is in talks with 25 countries and ...
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ConAgra Grocery Products, a subsidiary of ConAgra, has agreed to pay a fine $11.2m to resolve a decade long peanut butter case related to a countrywide outbreak of salmonella in the US. The company has pleaded guilty of shipping ...
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Inocucor Technologies announced that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has registered its first two specialty ag biological products for use by Canadian farmers and greenhouse growers. Synergro is a live-cell formulation for ...
Publix Super Markets is issuing a voluntary recall for certain Publix Premium Pancake and Waffle Mixes after being informed by the supplier that milk powder used as an ingredient may contain Salmonella. The mixes were sold at Publix ...
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Permitting continues for the proposed Elba Liquefaction Project, which consists of 10 small-scale liquefaction units to be purchased from Shell. They will be integrated with the existing Elba Island facility and enable rapid construction ...
Inocucor Technologies’ microbial crop accelerator for farmers and greenhouse growers has been approved for use in California. Registration by the California Department of Food and Agriculture also includes certification for the ...
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