New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra has inaugurated its new facility at Heerenveen in Netherlands, which is its first wholly owned and operated ingredients plant in Europe. The firm has formed a partnership with Dutch cheese ...
Tags: dairy products, animal husbandry, milk, dairy Processing
Global woes drag crude prices, as demand continues to decline in China Retail fuel prices will be lowered slightly from Wednesday to better reflect the global fall in crude prices and the glut in the market, the nation's top economic ...
Tags: Gasoline Price, Crude Prices
President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov of Turkmenistan has said that the main purpose of restructuring in the textile industry is to increase the manufacturing of competitive products and attract investments, according to the country’s ...
Tags: textile manufacture, knitwear, garments, casual wear
Flokser Group, a producer of leather and suede fabrics has developed an innovative artificial leather fabric using bio based materials from DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products and BioAmber. A BioAmber press release informed that Flokser ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has agreed to supply its PV modules to power the ...
Tags: Solar Modules, PV Project
Australian entrepreneur Justin Dowel has responded to the retail sector's growing demand for shelf-ready cartons containing smaller quantities with the investment in a compact end-of-line solution for Natures Organics. The cartonising ...
Tags: Shelf-Ready Cartons, Packaging
Oman Food Investment Holding Company (OFIC) is planning to invest $620m to set up dairy, poultry and red meat factories in the country to boost food security. Of the total proposed investment, around 70% is derived from state-owned ...
Chicken legs from the US have made a comeback in Jordan after the latter scrapped a packaging norm. The rule that restricted the weight of chicken leg packs to 2.5kg, has been relaxed to allow up to 15kg. The Middle Eastern country ...
Tags: Packaging Rule, Chicken Legs
A newly published study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that improving the uniformity of lighting in parking lots can increase the sense of safety and security, as well as provide up to an ...
Tags: Uniform Lighting, HID lighting, LED
Wacker Chemie AG has started up a new specialty monomer plant with a yearly capacity of 3,800 metric tons at its Burghausen facility in Germany. "The specialty monomers; vinyl neodecanoate and vinyl laurate are key raw materials in the ...
Tags: Textile
The National Development and Reform Commission, the nation's top economic planner, said on Monday that retail prices of gasoline would be cut by 110 yuan ($17.78) a metric ton, or 0.08 yuan a liter from Tuesday, while diesel prices would ...
PlantBottle packaging "pushes the boundaries on sustainable innovation by using groundbreaking technology to create a fully recyclable plastic bottle made from renewable plant materials," said the soft drinks giant. The current version of ...
Tags: Plantbottle, Packaging
Agricultural processing firm Sunwin Stevia International has completed construction on a new manufacturing plant in China which will increase the company's stevia production capacity. The new facility is equipped with advanced production ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Chinese Plant
The Coca-Cola Company has unveiled a plastic bottle made entirely from renewable plant material. The US beverage giant claims the bottle is fully recyclable and the first to use PET plastic (a common type of polyester) that is entirely ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, Packaging, plastic bottle, renewable bottle
In addition to its current extensive portfolio of inorganic pigment products, specialty chemicals company LANXESS will promote its line of new red shades at the Eastern Coatings Show in Atlantic City, New Jersey from June 1 – 4. ...