Global speciality chemicals distributor Azelis has expanded its African operations by opening a new office in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The new office forms part of Azelis’ commitment to invest in Africa. The company established its ...
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French dairy giant The Lactalis Group has offered its Italian subsidiary Parmalat a buyout offer of €637m for the 12.26% stake it doesn’t hold. The move from the Lactalis is to take 100% control of Parmalat in order to delist ...
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Canadian industrial technology firm EnWave has bagged a contract from Bonduelle to increase the productivity of the latter’s 120kW Radiant Energy Vacuum (REV) machinery. Bonduelle is a French based global processor of frozen ...
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As they drift off for their one- or two-day vacations shortly, will Apple's senior executives be patting themselves on the back? Or will they be slapping themselves on the forehead? Apple's 2016 was garlanded with the usual hype, but not ...
UK-based packaging firm DS Smith has designed a new biodegradable and recyclable carton to pack French champagne brand Veuve Clicquot’s products. The new eco-friendly packaging solution was designed following completion of ...
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French biscuit company Poult has secured an investment of €25m from CM-CIC Investissement to support its growth plans in France as well as entire Europe. With the investment, CM-CIC Investissement has joined a pool of investors led ...
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Spanish food company Ebro Foods has announced the merger of its three US rice and pasta companies in a bid to become a major player in the two segments in the country. The companies to be merged, with effective from 1 January 2017, are ...
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PSA Group and STAFIM have signed a letter of intent to assemble and sell a Peugeot brand Pick-up truck in Tunisia. This planned assembly plant will start operations in mid-2018, producing 1,200 units annually to meet the demand in the ...
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French yeast maker Lesaffre has acquired two companies to expand its presence in sourdoughs and baking ingredients market in Western Europe. The acquisitions include LFI Tollblend in United Kingdom and Tecno Bakery in Spain. Lesaffre ...
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Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser commented: “We continue to make good progress with our strategy; improving our competitive performance, delivering a new wave of production growth, and maturing the next ...
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The GM-ES-1 well is being drilled in a water depth of over 2,000 meters and to date has drilled to a depth of 5,711 meters. The well has encountered over 70-meters of net oil pay in two objectives. The joint venture plans to drill ahead to ...
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Early in May, Luxlite, Epistar's sole distributor in China, has sent out an announcement of price adjustment, listing a number of reasons for price increase, including continuingly increased raw materials and manpower costs. Chinese LED ...
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French alcoholic beverage firm Remy Cointreau has reported a 2.5% increase in its net sales to €513.4m for the first half of this year, compared to €500.7m for the same period in 2015. Operating profits surged 15.9% to ...
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Norway's Tomra Sorting Food has introduced two new sorting machines, Tomra 5A and Tomra 5B, designed to provide reduced product waste and maximum uptime. The Tomra 5A is designed to sort whole unpeeled and peeled process potatoes while ...
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US based Key Technology has launched a new digital sorter line to improve quality of potato strips and specialty potato products by maximizing removal of foreign material and defects. Branded as VERYX, the digital sorter and intelligent ...
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