Nestle Zimbabwe has commissioned a milk powder plant following its $8m renovation in order to increase production capacity. The refurbishment has enhanced the plant's capacity from 900kg to 1,600kg for creamer and from 900kg to 1,500kg ...
Tags: Milk Powder, Nestle
ColaLife and Amcor Flexibles have developed a pouch which effectively delivers diarrhoea medicine to children in remote parts of Zambia. The lightweight Flexi-pack offers a measure for the water required to make up each of the four 200ml ...
Tags: Life-Saving Kit, Flexi-pack
Zambian agri-business company Zambeef is in talks with a third party to divest edible oil and soya meal producers Zamanita Limited. The move follows the publication of a cautionary announcement regarding the transaction on the Lusaka ...
Tags: edible oil, soya meal, Agriculture
The Cotton Board of Zambia has praised the Government’s policy of careful treading in adopting commercialization of biotech or genetically modified (GM) crops, reports Lusaka Times. Releasing a report on the global status of ...
Tags: Cotton Board, GM crops
KAPIRI Glass Factory is set to revive operations in July next year following the successful recapitalisation of the firm. The glass factory, which will operate under a new name called Kapiri Glass Manufacturing (KGM) Limited, is expected ...
Tags: glass, decoration
Zambeef Products, a Zambia-based meat products company, has opened a dairy processing plant in Chisamba. The $2.5m facility is set to raise the company's milk processing capacity from 35,000 liters per day to 100,000, while creating 1,000 ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Kapiri Glass Factory is set to reopen its operations in July next year under a new local investor Chimsoro Milling Company Limited. This follows the recapitalization and re-investment into latest machinery and technology at the once ...
Midnight Sun Mining Corp. (the "Company" or "Midnight Sun") (TSX VENTURE:MMA) announces the commencement of drilling on the Solwezi copper property in northwest Zambia. The initial drill program is contracted for 3,000 meters of reverse ...
Zambeef Products, a Zambia-based meat products company, is set to invest $250m to boost locally-sourced produce, as the country suspended beef and poultry imports from Europe over contamination concerns. The company plans to establish a ...
Tanzania’s MeTL Group is planning to set up a cotton ginnery in the Southern African country of Zambia to provide a ready market for small-scale cotton growers in the region. The MeTL Group intends to set up a ginnery with a ...
Tags: Cotton Ginnery, MeTL Group
Allied Bakeries' deal to supply bread to Co-op stores has helped the grocery division of its parent company Associated British Foods (ABF) achieve 7% growth in the third quarter of its financial year. ABF's grocery division posted third ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that its South African unit ArcelorMittal South Africa is supplying China's Sinohydro Corporation with reinforcing steel from its Newcastle plant for a number of hydroelectric projects across ...
Tags: rebar, longs, Zambia, Africa, ArcelorMittal, steelmaking, Istanbul
A mining company with a plan to do for emeralds what De Beers has done for diamonds has been delivered a blow by the government it is in partnership with. Seemingly out of the blue, the Zambia Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water ...
Coloured gemstones are now increasingly finding place in jewellery sets of the young and fashion conscious Indian consumers. Gone are those days a few years back when people in India used to wear coloured gemstone jewellery with ...
Tags: Gemstone, Gemstone Industry, Crafts
The Kenyan government has said that it has no intention of censoring what citizens do online or of closing access to social media networks in the country, despite facing challenges of identifying and tracking down people behind online hate ...