Japanese carmaker Toyota is planning to build a new $495m engine manufacturing facility in Porto Feliz, São Paulo in Brazil for producing engines for the Etios and Corolla sedans. The new 870,000m2 facility, which is aimed at ...
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Sweden-based food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak is all set to unveil new smart milk cartons that will change colour when left out of the fridge for too long. The cartons serve as an example of improvements in the $400bn ...
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The active, smart, and sustainable packaging in BRIC countries valued $3.9bn, $2.9bn, $3.3bn and $27.7bn in 2011 are expected to record a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.80%, 7.14%, 10% and 5.69%, respectively during 2012–16, ...
German carmaker BMW is planning to build a new assembly plant in Brazil, marking its entry into Latin America's luxury car market. BMW's move follows uncertainity after the Brazilian federal government begun imposing additional barriers ...
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Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics (CEPEA) reported that after increasing for little more than one month, cotton prices resumed dropping in the second week of September, mainly because of the wider gap between export parity ...
Brazil's steel distributors association, Inda, has disclosed that its members' steel sales rose 8.1% year on year to 401,200 tonne in October, increasing by 13.4% as compared to September. In the January to October period of the current ...
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A new poultry production complex is set to be established in Chad,a development which is expected to boost industrial meat production and improve food security in the country. The project is supported by US food and nutrition company ...
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The Brazilian textile and apparel industry – among the top five in the world is reeling under the impact of two challenges – large scale imports and high labour and energy costs. These have created a cascading effect in the form ...
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In 2010, The National Cotton Council (NCC) expressed appreciation for the efforts of the Administration to conclude a framework agreement with Brazil in the WTO dispute involving the export credit guarantee programs and certain provisions ...
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Brazilian food company BRF Brasil Foods and Irish ingredients firm Carbery have formed a 50/50 whey processing joint venture in Brazil,with a proposed investment of$50m. The new joint venture will use Carbery's technology to process whey ...
On the occasion of this year's textile exhibition Febratex in Blumenau/Brazil, August 14 - 17, innovative fashion and functional coatings had been the centre of interest at the joint stand of Rudolf Soft and Rudolf Sizing. Novelties ranging ...
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According to the latest data released by the Brazilian Institute of Non ferrous Metals, the country's nickel production, which was 3,641 tonne in October last year, amounted to 6,104 tonne in October this year, up 20.5 percent compared to ...
Paper and packaging company in the US, International Paper (IP) has signed an agreement with Brazilian corrugated packaging producer Jari Celulose, Embalagens e Papel in a bid to expand its global corrugated packaging platform in Brazil. ...
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The Brazilian government plans to invest$2bn by 2014 to double the fish production to about 2 million tons per year. This program is a part of the government's plan to boost the competitiveness of the fishing industry and the income of ...
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Brazil plans to provide$96m loan facility to improve small-scale and rural farming in Ghana,in order to boost food production in the country,according to Brazilian Ambassador to Ghana,Irene Vida Gala. The loan facility will be used to ...
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