Tyson Foods has announced that it will invest $14m to expand its chicken processing facility in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Tyson Foods spokesman Worth Sparkman revealed that the company is looking to make capital improvements to the ...
The UK Government is investing £35m in an expanded automotive business zone in Whitley, near Coventry. The move is expectd to create about 3,000 engineering and advanced manufacturing jobs. The investment will also improve ...
The profit of Royal FrieslandCampina decreased by 16.7 percent over the first half-year 2016 to 160 million euros compared to the same period in the previous financial year. Due to the significant increase in the member dairy ...
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Pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso is investing €6.6m in the corrugated packaging business in Sweden in a bid to increase competitiveness. The investment is also part of the company’s efforts to improve printing quality and ...
Farmers face the risk of major yield loss from corn diseases in any given season, but they will have a new defense in 2017 with the debut of DEKALB Disease Shield corn products. Six new DEKALB Disease Shield products are being introduced ...
Hammer Packaging has recently installed a Speedmaster XL 106-8+L from Heidelberg to increase capacity and improve productivity. The new peak performance press replaced an older competitive press, and will run alongside two existing ...
CSafe Global, a manufacturer of temperature-controlled air-freight containers for the biopharmaceutical industry, has acquired France-based temperature-controlled packaging solutions supplier Kalibox. Established in 2001, Kalibox has two ...
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EpiGaN nv of Hasselt, near Antwerp, Belgium, which supplies commercial-grade 150mm- and 200mm-diameter gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) epitaxial wafers for 600V high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) power and RF devices, says that ...
LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has unveiled FreshFocus Technology (for showcasing fruit and vegetable produce in its freshest state) as part of its LUXEON Stylist Series of LEDs (designed to provide the lighting environment to sell ...
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UK based printed packaging films producer TCL Packaging has purchased new automatic core cutting machine from Universal Converting Equipment in order to increase reel core production capacity in Suffolk. The new machine is planned to be ...
Pork processor Moon Ridge Foods has opened its new pork processing plant in Pleasant Hope in the US state of Missouri. Operations in the pork processing plant are scheduled to start in mid-September this year. The plant will be Moon ...
Rigid plastic container manufacturer Plastipak Packaging, a subsidiary of Plastipak Holdings, is planning to invest $10.4m to add two manufacturing lines to its Birmingham area facility in Jefferson County, Alabama, US. Plastipak ...
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The Greater Richmond Partnership announces that Niagara Bottling, the private label bottled water supplier in the US, will build a $95m 450,000 square-foot facility in Chesterfield County’s Meadowville Technology Park, employing 76 ...
Honda of South Carolina (HSC) is investing $45m in an expansion project which the company says will create 250 additional jobs at the facility in Timmonsville. The investment will add about 115,000 ft2 of space which will help the ...
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The net turnover of the Ebro Group grew by 16.1% year on year in 2015, rising to €2462m (€2.4bn). The EBITDA, or gross operating profit, was considerably better than year-end projections, closing at €314.8 million, up 9.6% ...
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