US-based KBR has been awarded contract to provide maintenance, planning and industrial services for renewable packaging and paper products producer International Paper (IP). Under the four-year contract, KBR will be responsible for ...
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Mississippi-based poultry processor Sanderson Farms has established a new processing plant and wastewater treatment facility with an investment of $155m in North Carolina. The new 180,000ft2 poultry plant located in St. Pauls will ...
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Stora Enso is set to invest around €9m into its consumer board mills in Finland and Sweden, as part of its efforts to commercialise microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) in paperboard packaging. The firm will invest in consumer board ...
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UK’s workable cup recycling scheme Simply Cups and Smart Planet Technologies (SPT) have partnered to recover and recycle the ‘reCUP’ hot beverage paper cup. The reCUP, which is designed by Smart Planet in California, can ...
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After a comprehensive rebuild supplied by Toscotec, the rebuilt PM10 at Lucart Laval sur Vologne mill in France has been started. The rebuild will boost the machine speed from the current 1300 mpm to 1600 mpm for the production of ...
Kvadrat Soft Cells, one of the leading Danish producers of high performance acoustic solutions, has recently acquired the British acoustic manufacturer Fabric Systems. The move will create a powerful textile acoustics entity, which will be ...
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Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has announced plans to expand its production capacity of sweeteners and starches at its facilities in Turkey and Bulgaria to meet regional and global demand. The American global food processing company ...
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A slowdown in China is the greatest threat to the global economy, Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff told BBC in a curious interview in late September. "The [Chinese] economy is slowing down much more than the official figures show." As the ...
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Own sourced copper production was down 3% to 1,502,200 tonnes in 2015, reflecting the suspension of processing operations at Katanga and a significant curtailment at Mopani. These volume reductions were partly offset by increases at ...
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Russian meat producer Cherkizovo Group has started construction of a new $90m meat processing plant in the Moscow region. Expected to be the largest in the meat processing category in Europe once completed, the plant is located in Kashira ...
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Jiangsu Shagang Group, the largest ferrous scrap user in China, on Saturday cut its buying price of heavy melting scrap 6 millimeters and above thick of Yuan 30 to Yuan 1,770/mt, including 17% value-added tax, delivered to Zhangjiagang, ...
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Sonoco, one of the diversified global packaging companies, reported financial results for its third quarter, ending 2 October 2016. Third Quarter Highlights Third quarter 2016 GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.64, compared with ...
According a new report from Smithers Pira, corrugated board packaging market to reach $269bn in 2021, though the annual growth rate is expected to decrease to 3.6%. Growth in demand for corrugated board packaging is showing signs of a ...
Parrish and Heimbecker has secured a funding of $10m from the Canadian government to build a new wheat flour milling plant at Hamilton. The Canadian grain company’s new plant is expected to increase production capacity of wheat ...
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New York based New Mill Capital Holdings and Tiger Capital Group, through their joint venture, have acquired a manufacturing plant in Indiana operated by General Mills. However, the financial details to purchase the dough-products ...