Known as the "Kingdom of Hand Tools," Taiwan has long been the world's major supplier of general hand tools, and now some makers on the island are taking aim at the high-end market. With the help of industry and government-backed ...
Tags: Garden Tool, Cutting-Edge Products
Food and beverage giant Nestlé has purchased a majority stake in Terrafertil, a South American organic food company that manufactures plant-based foods and snacks. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed by the ...
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TricorBraun has collaborated with Amfora Packaging to form a new joint venture (JV) company to serve customers in the South American region. The partnership has formed TricorBraun South America SAS, which is a 50-50 JV firm with ...
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PAC Machinery said that it has exceeded its goals for introducing new packaging equipment at the Pack Expo / PHARMA EXPO exhibit and symposium in Las Vegas, Nevada, US. Described as the year's most comprehensive packaging event, PACK EXPO ...
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Chilean fruit producer Hortifrut has agreed to take over the blueberry business of Talsa for $160m. In addition to the cash payment, Talsa will get a stake of 17.13% in the merged company alongside a result-based reward. Talsa, a ...
Self-adhesive label materials manufacturer UPM Raflatac said that it will open a new slitting and distribution terminal in Santiago, Chile in early 2018. This new terminal will allow UPM Raflatac to improve its service capabilities and ...
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Valmet will supply a Valmet Brown Stock quality analyzer (Valmet Kappa Q1) for CMPC Celulosa in Santa Fe, Chile for its fiber line 1 producing ECF (Elemental Chlorine Free) bleached eucalyptus pulp. To be installed in the blow line of the ...
Norway-based breeding firm AquaGen has agreed to acquire 51% stake in Denmark-based rainbow trout eggs supplier AquaSearch ova for an undisclosed sum. In 2016, the production of portion-size trout stood at 650,000 tonnes and its annual ...
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PET packaging firm Petainer is set to exhibit its petainerKeg portfolio at this year’s Drinktec event in Germany. The event will take place from 11 to 15 September in Munich. Petainer has partnered with its official distribution ...
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Bradman Lake has secured an order from Taiwanese ready-meal manufacturer JNY Food to supply cartoning machine for packing oriental prepared meal kits and pouches. JNY is said to have researched the market for a machine that could provide ...
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Flexible packaging solutions provider Scholle IPN has opened a new manufacturing facility in Santiago, Chile. The new facility will manufacture bag-in-box style flexible packaging for institutional and retail markets. It will also ...
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Coca-Cola and several of its bottlers in Latin America have acquired the AdeS soy-based beverage business from Unilever. The transaction was first announced on 1 June 2016. Founded in 1988 in Argentina, AdeS was the first major ...
China imported 398,568 mt of copper concentrate from Peru in January, up 27% year on year, latest data released over the weekend by the General Administration of Customs showed. Peru edged out Chile as China's top source of imported ...
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Chile became China's leading supplier of fresh fruits in 2016, overtaking Vietnam and even Thailand, local media reported on Wednesday. Chile exported 1.2 billion U.S. dollars of fresh fruit, mainly cherries, to China last year, the daily ...
Tags: Fresh Fruits, Cherries, Grapes
China plans to seal free trade agreements with 40 percent of the countries and regions along the Belt and Road Initiative in 2017, officials said on Tuesday. The nation had already established FTAs or is in talks with 25 countries and ...
Tags: FTA, Belt and Road