PepsiCo Foods Canada will receive $3m in investment from the government of Ontario to revamp its manufacturing plant in Cambridge. The investment will be used to upgrade the food processing facility to meet world-class food safety ...
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Chicken producer Scandi Standard has agreed to acquire Finnish food producer Huttulan Kukko for €10m. Huttulan, which started operations in a newly built facility last year, has developed a concept based on Finnish chicken which it ...
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Seaboard Foods and Triumph Foods have formed a joint venture to construct a new pork processing facility in Sioux City, Iowa. The site work is expected to begin this summer and construction wil be completed by July 2017. The plant is ...
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Al Safi Danone Iraq will receive around $18m in investment from World Bank Group member IFC to expand its dairy operations to enhance domestic food security. This is a part of World Bank Group's strategy to encourage South-South ...
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Canadian agricultural company Grober Group will build a $12m dairy plant in the Cayuga County Industrial Park in Aurelius, US. Last week Grober representatives met with the Cayuga County Industrial Development Agency board of directors to ...
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Colborne based food processing facility Ontario Agri-Food Venture Centre has received $225,000 to support the advancement of small batch food products grown in eastern Ontario, Canada. This funding will enable the firm to accommodate ...
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US-based Sran Family Orchards has selected RF Biocidics’ radio frequency equipment for its new almond processing facility located in Kerman. The new environmentally friendly and chemical-free APEX System, uses no additives, is easy ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany says that Taiwanese group Episil Semiconductor Wafer Inc has put into operation an AIX G5 WW (Warm-Wall) chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor for silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxy. ...
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US-based establishment Golden State Foods is planning to establish a new meat processing facility in Opelika, in the US state of Alabama. To be located in the Northeast Opelika Industrial Park, the proposed facility will see an ...
Turkey products manufacturer Butterball has acquired a processing facility in Raeford, North Carolina, in a move to cater to increasing demand for Butterball turkey products. The facility, which is spread over an area of around ...
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Beer producer Flying Dog has announced plans to launch a new farm brewery location Farmworks Brewery in Virginia. The move forms a part of the company's strategy to further capitalize on growth with entirely new brewery ventures, ...
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Clemens Food Group is planning to invest $255.7m in the construction of a new pork processing facility in Coldwater Township in Michigan. The proposed investment is expected to create 810 jobs in the region. Commenting on the ...
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White House Rural Council and six federal agencies have selected 26 communities to be part of a federal initiative called Local Foods, Local Places. This initiative aims to provide technical support to integrate local food systems into ...
Lamb Weston / Meijer, a joint venture between US-based ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston and Netherlands’ Meijer Frozen Food is set to invest around $150m to expand its frozen potato facility in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands. Adding a ...
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Del Monte Pacific will form a joint venture with Spanish fruit processor Nice Fruit and British investment firm Ferville to set up a food processing facility in the Philippines and market frozen fruits across the globe. The joint ...
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