The US House of Representatives has voted 300-131 for repealing a law that mandates country-of-origin labels (COOL) for beef, pork and poultry. The voting follows threats of trade measures from Canada and Mexico, which have been opposing ...
Tags: Meat Labeling Law, Packaging
Axalta Coating Systems has expanded its powder supply capabilities in the Southern California region. Axalta's new local delivery service provides daily deliveries expanding as far north as Oxnard, California and as far south as Fontana, ...
Tags: Powder Coatings
Government's push of e-commerce in rural areas will stimulate online fresh food sales A government-backed drive toward e-commerce can help open up the agricultural sector and generate a rapid increase in incomes for farmers. At a ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Farming, Agricultural
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
Clothing made from tropical fabrics such as piña and banana are usually used only during weddings, baptisms, burials and other special occasions in the Philippines. But the Philippine textile research institute of the department of ...
Tags: Clothing, tropical fabrics
BASF has opened a new Agricultural Research Station in Loni Kand, Pune, India. This new research and development (R&D) center will focus on global agricultural research on herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, as well as on solutions ...
Plastic packaging and coatings company Coveris Holdings has acquired Elldex Packaging Solutions, a division of Hellaby Holdings, with packaging businesses in New Zealand and Australia. Elldex manufactures and imports HDPE and LDPE ...
Tags: Hellaby's Packaging, Packaging
The Taiwan Cabinet plans to roll out the Taiwanese version of “Industry 4.0 Plan” this June just shortly after such plan had been publicized on TV to be part of China's official program, with the aim to help the island's ...
Spanish design company Forward Thinking Architecture has developed an automated offshore floating farming alternative to increase food production. The multi-layered Smart Floating Farms (SFF) project combines solar energy, ...
Speakers at a seminar organised by the Bangladesh’s Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) in Rajshahi said there should be emphasis on promoting more silk export from the region for making its economy vibrant. They also said boosting ...
Tags: silk export, Silk
The total volume of Egyptian cotton exports rose by a whopping 94.3 per cent year-on-year during the second quarter of the 2014-2015 agricultural season, to reach 246,000 metric quintals, a leading Egyptian newspaper reported quoting a ...
French agricultural co-operative Terrena and oilseed investment firm Sofiproteol are in talks to acquire a controlling stake in poultry exporter Doux. If these talks succeed, Terrena will acquire 52.5% stake in Doux from D&P ...
Tags: Poultry Exporter, Doux, food service
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has rejected appeal from the US regarding the country-of-origin labeling (COOL) on meat dispute between the US, Canada and Mexico. WTO said that labels carrying information about where meat is raised ...
Tags: Origin Labeling, labeling
TA1 texture analyser (available from Bestech Australia) is used by the Scottish Agricultural College for shear force measurements to measure the eating quality of meat. Uniformity and enhancement of meat eating quality is seen as an ...
China's State Council has unveiled a ten-year national plan, Made in China 2025, designed to transform China from a manufacturing giant into a world manufacturing power. The plan, endorsed by Premier Li Keqiang, is the country's first ...