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METEX says a review is underway of an incident that occurred at its amino acids production plant in Amiens, northern France.

PUNE, India, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Global demand for (WTE) Waste to Energy Market Size, in terms of revenue, was worth of USD 32.15 Billion in 2017 and is expected to reach USD 49.44

Agribusiness, Ceres Global, today announced to build a US$350m integrated canola processing facility in Saskatchewan, Canada, to help meet the current and growing global demand for canola products. The facility will have capacity to process 1.1 million metric tons of canola and refine over 500K metric tons of canola oil annually. Robert Day, CEO, Ceres, said the crushing facility would help meet the “unprecedented demand for oilseed crush”​ currently in North...

Cargill will return about US$2m to state of Iowa in tax credits after failing to hire as many employees for a facility in Cedar Rapids as originally pegged, according to local media outlet Des Moines Register. The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) board heard from Cargill last week that it would not be able to meeting commitments made on staffing levels the plant of one of its subsidiaries, animal nutrition supplier, Diamond V. The board approved the tax cre...

Nutreco’s aquaculture division, Skretting, is to buy Ridley’s extrusion facility in Westbury, Tasmania, in an effort to boost its production capacity in that market. Ridley said the sale is worth just under AUS$55m (US$42.7m). The facility, which only opened in July 2019, was underutilized, added Australia’s largest feed manufacturing company.   It said this divestment would allow it to “reset”​ its manufacturing cost base. Its share price jumped on th...

Swedish startup, Volta Greentech, which is focused on using seaweed to reduce methane emissions in cattle by up to 80%, has just closed a SEK 17 million (€1.7m) funding round to further expand its pilot production, and to prepare for the setting up of a large-scale factory. Participants in the latest funding round included investor, Claes Dinkelspiel, founder of internet bank Nordnet, Peter Carlsson, CEO at Swedish battery manufacturing company, Northvolt, along wi...

FrieslandCampina is divesting its young animal nutrition division. The 70 employees that work for its Nutrifeed business will join Denkavit, a Dutch company, based in Voorthuizen, in the Netherlands, and specialized in nutrition for calves, piglets, goats and sheep.

Air Products plc Decrease Font Air Products has been offering food grade gases (nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide) and technical expertise to the food industry in the UK for over 60 years. Our gas enabling equipment includes state of the art tunnel and batch freezers, liquid nitrogen injection systems and other bespoke engineering to facilitate crust freezing, IQF, mixing, forming and grinding. In addition to the Freshline® SafeChill™ system, an effective way to eliminate campylobacter in pou...

Scoular commissioning fishmeal plant in Myanmar US feedstuffs handler, Scoular, is establishing a ‘value-add’ fishmeal facility in Myanmar that it says will supply customers in Asia with consistent quality and just-in-time delivery. “We expect to commission the facility in July 2021,”​ a spokesperson for the Omaha, Nebraska headquartered company told us. In terms of the capacity the new fishmeal facility will have when operational, the Scoular representa...

ADM to expand soybean processing capabilities, reports solid first quarter crushing performance Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has announced plans to build a soybean crushing plant and refinery in North Dakota, in the US. It will meet the demands for soy from food, feed, industrial and biofuel customers, as well as producers of renewable diesel, said the agribusiness giant. The US$350m facility will use state-of-the-art automation technology and the capacity ...