The BASF TOTAL Petrochemicals LCC (BTP) joint venture (60 percent BASF, 40 percent Total) announced the startup of a 10th furnace at its steam cracker facility in Port Arthur, Texas. The additional furnace improves feedstock flexibility, ...
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Fonterra, a New Zealand-based dairy co-operative, is set to expand slice-on-slice cheese capacity at its site in Eltham, Taranaki, with an investment of NZ$32m. The slice-on-slice cheese is primarily used in quick service restaurants for ...
VALLETTA,Jan 23(Xinhua)--Malta International Airport ended 2013 with a total of 4.03 million passengers and forecast a 2 percent growth in passenger numbers this year,local media reported Thursday. Aircraft movements went up by 9.1 ...
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Bayer MaterialScience has increased it investment in its production sites for polyether polyols in South Charleston, West Virginia, and Channelview, Texas. Both sites produce polyether polyols - a key component in the development of ...
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Brewing major SAB Miller has posted group revenues of $17.56bn in its first half (H1) ended September 2013, compared to $17.47bn in the corresponding period last year. These revenues were driven by lager volume growth of 1% on an ...
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Carr's Milling Industries is eyeing acquisitions in the UK and overseas for all of its divisions, including its food business, which supplies flour to bakers and baked good manufacturers. Carr's Milling opened its Kirkcaldy flour mill for ...
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Trafigura AG, a leader in international commodities trading and logistics today announced it has signed a pipeline agreement with Energy Transfer Partners (NYSE: ETP) for crude oil and condensate transportation capacity. The 82-mile ...
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Synseals Global Glass division can now toughen twice the glass at its K2 plant in Blackburn, all faster, to a better quality and save energy thanks to an advanced new furnace there. The Tamglass ProConvection unit is both 40% bigger ...
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UltraTape Industries, a division of Delphon and leading manufacturer of cleanroom tape and label products, announced the acquisition of the assets of a Silicon Valley label business as part of the company’s ongoing expansion of its ...
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SPX, a US-based manufacturing and industrial equipment supplier, has secured a $26m contract from multinational conglomerate Lotte to provide dairy processing systems for expansion of the latter's manufacturing facility in Japan. As per ...
The presses allow the two businesses to offer increased capacity, and greater manufacturing efficiency and flexibility to their existing blue-chip customer base as well as allowing additional customers to take advantage of top quality ...
Klockner Pentaplast has announced plans to invest €45.6m as part of its 2013–2014 expansion plans. which include facilities in Cotia, Brazil; Suzhou, China; Newport/Crumlin, Great Britain; and Santo Tirso, Portugal. The company ...
US agribusiness company Cargill plans to invest $48m in a new automated distribution system at its beef processing facility in Dodge City, Kansas. Cargill noted that new system will allow the company to better support its customers and ...
Sims Metal Management expects tight ferrous scrap flows and US scrap processing overcapacity, two major headwinds impacting margins, to improve in its current fiscal year that ends June 30, 2014. The global scrap firm notes an improvement ...
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FTR Associates' Shippers Conditions Index (SCI) dropped slightly in June. That change, FTR said, is reflective of a relatively weak freight environment offsetting increased capacity constraints. It also doesn't reflect the new ...
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