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The agribusiness said the project is in response to an uptick in global demand for canola products. American agribusiness Cargill is preparing to launch a $350 million project to construct a new canola processing plant in Regina, SK to help meet rising demand for canola products around the world, the company announced Thursday. The firm said it also intends to update and modernize two other canola plants in the province. “We are confident that the continued growth and competitiveness of...

The Eat Beyond Global Holdings-owned company recently commissioned its first manufacturing line at the Vancouver, BC plant. Investment issuer Eat Beyond Global Holdings announced Tuesday that its portfolio firm The Very Good Food Company completed the commissioning of its first production line and “butchered its first bean” at its newly upgraded Vancouver, BC plant-based meat alternatives manufacturing plant. “The 45,000-sq-ft facility will significantly boost Very Good’s product...

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The $33 million deal enables SunOpta to expand its presence in the niche market of plant-based beverages. Natural and organic products firm Hain Celestial Group Inc. closed the sale of its plant-based WestSoy and Dream brands to SunOpta Inc. this week, the companies announced in separate releases. The transaction was valued at $33 million. “With today’s announcement and the strategic sale of our North American non-dairy beverages to SunOpta, we provide the market with the latest exam...

American agribusiness Cargill is preparing to start a $25 million expansion project at its soybean crush plant near Fayetteville, NC, local economic development officials announced in a release Monday. “Our plant in Cumberland County is an important link in the supply chain for North Carolina farmers and livestock producers, and these investments will help us serve customers more efficiently,” Don Camden, who serves as vice president, Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain North America, said in...

Representative image 1 person was killed and 8 others were injured during the incident at the Columbus, OH manufacturing site. Chemical safety agency The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Identification Board (CSB) announced that it is dispatching personnel to Yenkin-Majestic Paints manufacturing plant in Columbus, OH after an explosion and fire killed one person and injured eight others in the early hours of Thursday morning. “According to initial reports, an explosion and two-alarm fire...

The plant-based meat alternative opened its first end-to-end manufacturing plant outside the US outside of Shanghai. Plant-based protein firm Beyond Meat announced this week that its first end-to-end manufacturing plant for outside the United States has officially opened in the Jiaxing Economic & Technological Zone (JXEDZ) near Shanghai. The facility enables the plant-based meat alternatives maker to expand the scale and boost the speed of production and distribution of its products in th...

Johannes Lottermann, Chief Business Development Officer, Explosion Safety for REMBE. Lottermann tells Powder & Bulk Solids what it’s like to work as Chief Business Development Officer Explosion Safety for explosion safety and pressure relief solutions firm REMBE. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Lottermann joined the noted explosion safety and pressure relief solutions firm REMBE GmbH Safety+Control more than a decade ago as the head of its Projects and Expansion Department and Senior Consultant, Expl...

From non-psychoactive CBD to THC, the global cannabis market is projected to grow to a value of $85 billion by 2028 as more areas of the world begin to legalize cannabis for medical or recreational uses. As companies enter this growing industry, many cannabis processing operations are encountering a shortage of material-specific technical knowledge and few industry-specific equipment solutions. While the cannabis industry is in a state of professionalization and working to develop best pra...

Officials said that electrical equipment was involved in the massive blaze at the facility.