Healthy Food Ingredients (HFI) has acquired Minnesota-based purple-coloured corn maker Suntava Corporation. The acquisition will mean that the Suntava team will function as a unit of Healthy Foods Ingredients, which produces ...
Tags: HFI, natural colorants, purple corn
Despite smaller plantings, U.S. farmers will harvest the second-largest soybean crop and third-largest corn crops this fall, the Agriculture Department projected, with high demand whittling down the corn stockpile by 8 percent but soybean ...
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Polish biodiesel production jumped almost 11% on the year to 184,684 mt in the third quarter of 2013, the Energy Regulatory Office (URE) said Thursday. A local market source attributed the rise to strong downstream diesel demand bolstering ...
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A 20% drop in the price of distiller dried grains, or DDG, after top consumer China turned away two shipments that may contain unapproved genetically modified corn strains are "clearly a negative" for US ethanol producers which rely on the ...
Louis Dreyfus, a French multinational conglomerate, has signed an agreement with Brooklyn Kiev to establish a joint venture for the development of a grain terminal in Odessa, Ukraine. Scheduled to commence the first phase of its operation ...
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The profitability of turning corn crops into ethanol in Europe surged to seven-month highs this week following a jump in the spot price of the biofuel, according to data compiled by Platts. The corn-to-ethanol crush margin, an indication ...
Tags: Crush Margin, Chemicals
UK food ingredients group Tate & Lyle plc has said its first-half profits remained flat year-on-year, with growth expected to pick up in the second half. "Overall, we expect to report adjusted operating profit for the group for the first ...
Tags: food, bulk ingredients, liquid sweeteners, ethanol, corn crops