Hilton Food Group will invest nearly NZ$54m ($38.7m) to build a new meat processing facility in South Auckland, New Zealand. The UK-based meat processing company will exclusively supply the meat products from the new facility to New ...
Tags: Hilton Food, meat processing
Freska Produce International is expanding its avocado reach with its purchase of California avocado packer, Harvest Time Produce. Freska, already a global leader in Mangos, with this entry into the prestigious California Avocado program ...
Tags: Freska Produce, avocado packer, Agriculture
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra has opened a new $37m blending and packing plant in Indonesia. Said to be Fonterra's first manufacturing facility in the country, the plant uses the company's manufacturing design standards and technology. ...
Tags: Fonterra, Packing Plant
Russia’s veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog has banned the import of meat and dairy products from eight Belarussian companies. The banned companies include Agrokombinat Skidelsky, Vitebsk Broiler Poultry Plant, Servolux Agro, ...
Tags: Meat, dairy imports, Agriculture
Nutricia, a subsidiary of France-based yoghurt maker Danone, has agreed to acquire Gardians spray dryer and blending, packing and can-forming activities of the Sutton Group in Auckland as well as the spray dryer of Gardians, located near ...
Tags: Milk Drying, Packing Assets
Fonterra has started construction of IDR357bn ($31.3m) dairy blending and packing plant in West Java, Indonesia, which will be its first manufacturing facility in the country. The investment is said to be the largest for the company in ...
National Beef Packing Company announced today that they will be closing their beef processing facility in Brawley, California in early April. The closure is the result of tight margins due to declining cattle numbers. The plant employs ...
Tags: Packing plant, beef
Australian honey manufacturer Capilano Honey has launched a new range of flavour-infused honey, called Honeyfusions. Available in four flavour varieties, 'Honey and Maple Syrup', 'Honey and Vanilla', 'Honey and Lemon' and 'Honey and ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Honey
A Monday evening fire at Cargill's beef packing plant in Dodge City caused a temporary shutdown of operations. The plant is expected to resume operations in full on Monday. USDA says there were 445 million pounds of beef in cold storage ...
Tags: Cattle, Agriculture, Food
Hail Cement Co, whose plant began full operations in May this year, has announced that its production line is to be closed for more than two weeks for scheduled maintenance. The firm closed the line on Saturday (26 October) and said that ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
First Milk, a UK-based dairy producer, has unveiled plans to close its cheese packing plant in Marchwiel, Wrexham, while putting 231 jobs at risk. The plant is scheduled to shut in May 2014, and this move comes as the company lost a ...
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PT Semen Indonesia (Pesero) Tbk is establishing a packing plant in Banjarmasin, Indonesia. The company has reported that the facility was 90% complete as of August 2013. It is expected to begin operating in 4Q13. Rp120 billion has been ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, cement, Construction
The TBC installation includes a C Series Sack Placer, with a multi-pile sack magazine. Using a vacuum system, the sack placer automatically lifts individual bags from a stack and places them onto the sack clamp. Pasta Foods also opted for ...
India-Orient Cement Ltd, has placed an order with FLSmidth worth more than DKK200 million for a 6000 tpd greenfield plant in Karnataka. FLSmidth will provide engineering and supply of all main equipment, from the limestone crusher to the ...
Tags: Construction, Cement
Grupo Abayak AKOGA Cemento cc. has awarded FLSmidth a contract for the supply of a 3000 tpd greenfield cement plant. The plant will be built in Akoga on the mainland of Equatorial Guinea. The contract, which is worth around EUR68 million, ...
Tags: FLSmidth, Cement Plant, Equatorial Guinea