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Image courtesy of Cargill The joint venture’s will produce 65,000 mt/yr of the biointermediate in a new facility in Iowa. American agribusiness Cargill and German chemicals marketer HELM have formed a new joint venture, Qore, to produce bio-based intermediates that can be used in lieu of fossil-based chemistries, the two firms announced in a release Tuesday. The joint venture plans to invest $300 million to open the first commercial-scale production facility for 1,4-...

Image courtesy of Dow Dows Freeport, TX site. The opening of the Freeport, TX site will enable the firm to supply an additional 30% of product to its customers. American chemicals and materials giant Dow revealed plans Wednesday to construct a new integrated MDI distillation and prepolymers facility at its manufacturing site in Freeport, TX. The asset will replace its existing North American capacity in La Porte, TX and will allow the firm to increase its supply of the...

Delta T Optimizer Source: Drying Technology, Inc. Powde/Bulk Solids 2000: The company is offering the Delta T Optimizer as an option on their Delta T Dryer Control System. Powder/Bulk Solids 2000: The company is offering the Delta T Optimizer as an option on their Delta T Dryer Control System. The Optimizer is a unique, on-line method for automatically adjusting the exhaust dampers on dryers, ovens, etc. The result is that energy stack losses are minimized while the production rate...

Image courtesy of Swift Prepared Foods The Missouri plant will produce ready-to-eat, fully cooked bacon and create about 200 new jobs in the region. JBS USA subsidiary Swift Prepared Foods announced the opening of its new $68 million bacon production site in Moberly, MO in a release Tuesday. The site will manufacture ready-to-eat fully cooked bacon products for customers across the Midwest. “With the opening of its facility here in Moberly and the recent announcement...

Image courtesy of Pixabay Representative image Powder & Bulk Solids examines the current status of America’s cannabis processing and infused products manufacturing businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a number of industries strengths and weaknesses as the world’s manufacturers faced supply chain interruptions, staffing issues, shutdowns, transportation issues and more. In many ways, the crisis has offered the cannabis industry to demonstrate its resiliency...

Image courtesy of POET The acquisition of the assets will boost the South Dakota-based firm’s production capacity for bioethanol by 40%. The world’s biggest biofuels producer, POET, has acquired six bioethanol processing sites in Iowa and Nebraska and two terminals in Texas and Georgia as part of its purchase of Flint Hills Resources’ bioethanol business, a company release announced Tuesday. Poet said the assets will expand its production capacity for the product...

At the show, the company displayed the new ZSK 50 MEGAcompounder and a focus on their complete turnkey services- from a single line to a complete...

Image courtesy of Flickr user symic A new special report by Powder & Bulk Solids and Packaging Digest offers a look at the scale of Americas cannabis manufacturing industry. Traditionally there were only three types of cannabis products available to most consumers on the black market: Flower, hash, and homemade edibles. While flower remains the top-selling product category in today’s legal market, production of concentrates and infused foods and beverages has become ...

Local news reports said a fire broke out Sunday evening in a soybean storage site in Stuttgart, AR.

Pasta meals switch from bags to cartons Modern Table Meals switched to new gabled cartons (L) in the move from plastic bags (R). Modern Table Meals eliminates plastic bags in a move to recyclable paperboard packaging using uniquely gabled cartons that boast a new-look graphics design. Modern Table Meals, Walnut Creek, CA, reformulated its line of protein-packed pastas and meal kits in conjunction with a packaging change from flat-bottom plastic bags to “peaked” gable-top, stand-up paperboar...