Siegwerk, a provider of printing inks for packaging applications and labels, has expanded its digital ink footprint by opening a new production facility for inkjet inks in France. The firm has expanded its technical center in Annemasse, ...
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ExxonMobil Chemical has started production on new polyethylene line at its Mont Belvieu plastics plant in Texas. The firm commenced production of the first of two new 650,000 tons-per-year high-performance polyethylene lines at the plant. ...
Lamb Weston has completed a $200m expansion project at an existing potato facility in Richland, Washington (WA) to increase its processing capacity for manufacturing frozen French fries. The Richland facility, which was built in 1972, was ...
Songwon has commissioned a second thermoplastic urethane (TPU) production line, to become operational in the fourth quarter of 2017, as part of its global expansion strategy The company’s plant in Suwon, South Korea will be extended ...
Chilean fruit producer Hortifrut has agreed to take over the blueberry business of Talsa for $160m. In addition to the cash payment, Talsa will get a stake of 17.13% in the merged company alongside a result-based reward. Talsa, a ...
US global private equity firm, The Riverside Company, has agreed to acquire Texas-based food ingredients company Parker Products for an undisclosed price. Parker Products serves the baking, dairy, beverage, confectionery, RTE and snack, ...
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Valmet will supply a Valmet Brown Stock quality analyzer (Valmet Kappa Q1) for CMPC Celulosa in Santa Fe, Chile for its fiber line 1 producing ECF (Elemental Chlorine Free) bleached eucalyptus pulp. To be installed in the blow line of the ...
Belgium-based label printer Femalabel has invested in two Xeikon CX3 digital label presses, in a bid to enhance its production capacity. The installation of Xeikon aka Cheetah presses will allow Femalabel to expand the production of ...
US-based poultry producer Simmons Prepared Foods has announced an investment of $300m to build a new chicken operation facility in Benton County, Arkansas. Operations at the new chicken processing plant, located between Decatur and ...
Hong Kong-based pork supplying giant WH Group said that its subsidiary Smithfield Foods will acquire 100% stake of two Romanian packaged meats manufacturers Elit and Vericom for an undisclosed price. The acquisition will further expand ...
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Source Photonics Inc of West Hills, CA, USA (which provides broadband access optical components and modules) and the Jintan Economic Development Zone have announced the establishment of a new optical laser production plant in Jintan, China. ...
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Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to expand its facilities for producing high-quality-grade silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers for power devices - which have already been marketed under the trade name High-Grade Epi (HGE) - ...
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The Label Makers, known as Labmak, has invested in Durst’s new eight-colour Tau 330 RSC label press, in a bid to enhance its production operations. Durs said The Label Makers is the first UK beta site customer for the new digital ...
Kingsmoor Packaging has installed Atlas Copco’s GA90 VSD compressor in an effort to accelerate the production capacity and enhance energy efficiency. Somerton-based Kingsmoor has been into designing and manufacturing of thermoformed ...
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Kingsmoor Packaging, a Somerset-based thermoforming company, has developed food grade packaging solutions for Irish food company Greencore’s grab and go lunch options. Kingsmoor has provided around four packaging solutions for 11of ...
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