The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has agreed to help Autogrill in reducing food waste and losses. The three-year deal will see FAO provide Autogrill with tools to track and cut food losses and waste throughout its ...
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German automotive major BMW Group, which had joined forces with Scherm group, has pressed 100% electric trucks into service in Munich, Germany. With this, the carmaker has earned the distinction of being the maiden automaker in Europe to ...
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Baler and recycling engineering firm Middleton Engineering has installed a new swan neck conveyor at Biffa Polymers’ Wilton International Petrochemical Complex in Redcar, UK. Biffa is an integrated waste management business that is ...
Kumara Mangalam Birla led Aditya Birla Chemicals (ABCIL) and a company of the Aditya Birla Group said it has received shareholders’ approval for merging the company with Grasim Industries. “The merger between the two companies ...
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You’ve been warned: Helldorado may be blonde in color, but if you take it lightly, you’ll get gunned downed by a blast of barrel-aged flavor at an ABV of 12 percent. Indeed, after years as an occasional draft rarity, Firestone ...
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Vietnam Meat Industries (Vissan) has opened a new food processing plant in Tien Son Industrial Zone in the northern province of Bac Ninh. The move is in line with the company's strategy to improve food supply capacity in Vietnam and in ...
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Double Bond Chemical, a manufacturer of photoinitiators and oligomers, recently increased its annual output in photoinitiator production from 4,500 tons to 9,000 tons, and its annual output in oligomers production increased to 10,000 tons. ...
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Vietnam’s textile and garment industry attracted a majority of the biggest foreign direct investment (FDI) projects approved in the first six months of this year though many provinces had earlier announced they would keep away from ...
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Food storage technology provider Blumberg Grain is planning to invest over $250m during the next five years to expand its presence in India. As part of the expansion, the company will build a plant to manufacture components for scientific ...
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 ...
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International cotton prices may remain stable in 2015/16, though this will depend in part on changes in world cotton stocks. “In 2014/15, world ending stocks are forecast up 9 per cent to 21.9 million tons, reflecting a stock-to-use ...
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According to a CEPEA Brazil report, Brazilian cotton prices were recovering in early June, driven by the need to purchase in the short-term and expectation of delay in availability of cotton in the new season. “Purchasers with needs ...
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The New York City administration has begun implementing ban on expanded polystyrene (EPS) foams used for making cups, bowls, plates, takeout containers, and trays for being non-recyclable. Announced by the New York administration in ...
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China based Swellfun, the subsidiary of Diageo, has terminated its CNY2.3bn ($370m) Chinese liquor brand industrial park project owing to the recent anti-graft campaign in the country. As cited in Guangzhou's Time Weekly, the project was ...
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Thailand Minister of Industry ChakramontPasukavanich said that Thailand government is proposing to support building of rubber process factories, and they have invited some overseas investors in the end of 2014, and now there are eight China ...
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