Nestle is planning to invest more than UAH100m ($4.5m) in the development of its facility in Ukraine this year. The investment will entail installation of a production line at Torchyn factory. The company recently has also installed ...
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Russian food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzo has imposed a temporary ban on meat product imports from ten processing plants in Brazil. The agency said that the processing plants in Brazil have failed to comply with phytosanitary measures, ...
French dairy major Danone has objected to Russian agriculture minister's charges of adulteration of its dairy products. Russian Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov said that Danone and Wimm-Bill Dann, which is controlled by PepsiCo, ...
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Russian authorities have imposed a ban on imports of dairy products into the country from six Ukrainian factories. Trade relations between the two countries were deteriorating since Russia annexed Crimea last month. The Russian consumer ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will take protective measures if Ukraine liberalizes customs regulations with the European Union (EU), as reported by the Interfax-Ukraine ...
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Ukraine has agreed a protocol on duty-free supplies of steel pipes to Russia amounting to 120,000 mt in the first half of 2013, as reported by Interfax-Ukraine. The protocol amends the agreement on the regulation of supplies of some types ...
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Russia is set to impose ban on the imports of meat and meat products beginning 11 February over the concerns that they may contain ractopamine, a drug used in animal feed to promote leanness in cattle and hogs. Russia's animal and plant ...
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Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises have continued the upgrading of blast furnaces by installing coal injection facilities amid gas price hikes and tough competition on the domestic and foreign markets in 2012. Mr Anatoliy Starovoit ...
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Interfax reported that Russian gas giant OJSC Gazprom plans to invest RUR 700 million in the gasification of the Leningrad Region in 2013. The company's deputy CEO Valery Golubev told journalists that Gazprom invest RUR 1.9 billion in ...
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INTERFAX-CHINA reported that construction began on Sichuan Province's first large-scale gas-fired power station last week, but analysts warned that the high price of feedstock gas means the USD 800 million project may struggle to turn a ...
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Interfax reported that Russian Aluminum or Rusal and OJSC Rosenergoatom have signed a two year agreement on the supply of electric power at a price of three cents per kWh. A joint statement issued by the companies said that the contract ...
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INTERFAX-CHINA reported that Royal Dutch Shell plc remains committed to spending at least USD 1 billion per year in China’s upstream oil and gas sectors, as part of an aggressive move to expand its footprint in the Chinese energy ...
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Interfax-Ukraine newswire, citing CEO Mr Igor Syry, reported that Metinvest, Ukraine’s biggest steelmaker, will remove from operation a sinter facility at its Azovstal plant The plant will shift its sinter production to Mariupolsky ...
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Interfax reported that state owned China National Petroleum Corp. has broken ground on a spur of the China-Myanmar gas pipeline in the landlocked Chinese province of Yunnan that will cost more than USD 700 million. Source - Interfax ...
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Interfax cited Mr Valery Golubev deputy CEO of Gazprom as saying that the gasification level in the Krasnodar territory is 80%. The Krasnodar territory is 80% gasified whereas for Russia as a whole it's 63%. Mr Golubev said that over the ...
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