OFD Foods, a supplier of freeze-dried food for the US Military, has started construction on a $25m, nearly 50,000ft2 facility in the Town of Henrietta, Monroe County in New York State. The facility, which will be operating by the end of ...
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Dold Foods, the Hormel Foods' manufacturing plant in Wichita, Kansas, revealed its plans to add a 156,000 square-foot expansion to its location. The planned expansion will be to add more production lines for the Hormel Foods bacon items ...
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American Packaging has broken ground on a new 350,000ft2 manufacturing facility in Monroe County, New York. The company is investing around $170m to develop the facility, which will allow to create up to 260 permanent jobs, in addition to ...
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2 Sisters Food Group is closing its Smethwick poultry plant in the West Midlands, UK, which will result in the loss of several jobs. The 2 Sisters Food Group, which is owned by food tycoon Ranjit Boparan, revealed that the poultry factory ...
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Spotify is preparing to enter the hardware game, judging by job opportunities recently posted online. The firm is seeking a senior hardware product manager that could “deliver hardware directly from Spotify to existing and new ...
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2 Sisters Food Group is planning to close its Smethwick poultry processing facility in the West Midlands, which could impact 630 jobs. The ageing poultry factory located at Bevan Way in the Alpha Business Park has considerable challenges ...
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Impossible Foods has launched its first large-scale production facility, which could allow the company to make about 1 million pounds of meat a month, directly from plants, when fully ramped up. The goal for the East Oakland site is to ...
Mississippi-based poultry processor Sanderson Farms has established a new processing plant and wastewater treatment facility with an investment of $155m in North Carolina. The new 180,000ft2 poultry plant located in St. Pauls will ...
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Indian dairy firm Verka has commenced operations at its new dairy and ice cream plant built with an investment of INR320m ($4.7m) in Punjab state. Dubbed as the Verka Bathinda Dairy and located in Bathinda, the dairy and ice cream unit ...
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Potato processing firm Lamb Weston/Meijer has opened a new €120m production plant in the Netherlands. Apart from the new line, the company renovated the entire production location including the existing production line. The company ...
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Most of the people in Central and Eastern Europe have a positive view towards the Chinese economy, according to the Chinese Enterprises Global Image Survey Report (2016, Central and Eastern Europe Edition) released at a related forum in ...
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The employment market continues to grow in the transport, logistics and supply chain sector, according to the Labourforce Impex September 2016 Job Index. Specialist transport, logistics and supply chain recruitment company Labourforce ...
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A partnership between Cargill Animal Nutrition and Heifer International is enabling the expansion of 450 women-led, family-owned poultry farms in Qingshen, China. These farms will receive chicks, business training and access to nutrition ...
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Two new courses, designed to help furniture companies identify suitable job opportunities for the less able, have been developed following a two-year international project. Supported in the UK by British Furniture Manufacturers (BFM), the ...
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Efforts to reduce China's steel production overcapacity are forging ahead according to plan, the top economic planner said Wednesday. In a medium-term roundup of the drive, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said, in an ...
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