Food and beverage firm Nestle Malaysia officially opened a new Plant-Based Meal Solutions plant in the Shah Alam Industrial Complex in Selangor, Malaysia, the company announced this week. The RM150 million (about $36 million) facility is the company’s first of its kind in the ASEAN region.
Featuring a capacity of 8,000 tn/yr, the 600-sq-m plant includes new food processing machinery and automated packaging lines. Nestle produces the Harvest Gourmet brand of plant-based at the Selangor plant for the out-of-home-market and the site will soon start to produce a commercial range of offerings for retail and eCommerce sale.
Here are some other developments in the food and beverage industry that captured headlines over the last week:
Representative image Officials said a 55-year-old man died during a March 27 incident at the meat processing firm’s facility in Greeley, CO.
A worker was fatally injured on March 27 the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, CO after his head was struck by a piece of a machine, a spokesperson for a union representing some of the facility’s staff told local news organizations.
Emergency personnel were sent to the plant at about 10:30 a.m. and determined that a worker fell upon arrival, fire officials said in a report by KDVR. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 1 said in the Fox News affiliate’s coverage that the worker was hit by equipment while he was above a pool of water.
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