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KENYA- AIT East Africa, a supplier of ingredient solutions for the wheat-flour-bread sector has conducted a successful milling and bakery workshop to offer insights into how millers and bakers can optimize their processes to produce high-quality products at the least cost possible. The workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, held on 9th March 2023, brought together key industry players from the country…
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BELGIUM – Puratos Group, a Belgium-based ingredient company that supplies bakers, patissiers and chocolatiers, has announced that it is switching to more sustainable packaging in a sustainability drive. The company said it is making changes that mean all its packaging will become 100% recycle-ready, with some packaging getting additional improvements such as paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)…
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USA- Thomas Coyle has stepped down as an independent director of the board of directors at Ceres Global Ag Corp. and will take on a bigger role as a consultant to the company. Ceres appointed Coyle to the board as an independent director effective 1st October 2022. In addition to this role, he also led the board’s oversight of Ceres’…
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NETHERLANDS- Chicago-based ADM has entered into a joint venture agreement with Marel, a leading provider of advanced food processing solutions, to build an innovation center to enhance the production of alternative proteins. The innovation center will be at the heart of the Netherlands food valley at the Wageningen Campus and is set to open in the second half of 2024,…
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SWITZERLAND- The global purpose-led science-based company, Royal DSM, confirms that it is resuming its Rovimix Vitamin A production in Sisseln, Switzerland. In November 2022, the company announced the temporary cessation of Vitamin A production at its site in Switzerland and a possible reduction of its Vitamin E production. During the announcement, the company cited a challenging cost environment in Europe,…
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USA – US-based Cargill, one of the world’s biggest ship charterers, is considering wind power for cargo ships as the agricultural commodities giant moves to cut emissions from its chartered fleet. With about 90% of world trade transported by sea, shipping accounts for nearly 3% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Consequently, according to environmental campaigners, regulatory efforts by the sector…
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UAE- Saudi Arabian agriculture technology startup RedSea has started operations at its first greenhouse facility in Abu Dhabi, UAE to promote food and fodder production. Red Sea Farms is one of the most funded agritech firms in Saudi Arabia and has a mission to resolve the global agriculture and food crisis sustainably. In April 2022 the company raised its most…
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SPAIN- Cargill and Spanish food tech company Cubiq Foods have product co-development and commercial go-to-market agreements in place to develop and market Cubiq’s plant-based fats. Cargill will add Cubiq’s plant-based “smarter fats”, including its Go! Drop emulsion of vegetable oils and water, to its ingredients and plant-based formulation offerings. Cubiq CEO Andrés Montefeltro stated that having a market-ready product for…
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SINGAPORE- Barry Callebaut Group’s board of directors has appointed Vamsi Mohan Thati as president of their Asia Pacific business, headquartered in Singapore, effective April 1, 2023. Founded in 1996, the Barry Callebaut Group is the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, with an average annual production of 2.3 million tonnes of cocoa & chocolate, with the APAC…
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USA- Gavilon has finally rebranded as Viterra across its business in the United States and Mexico, following Viterra Ltd.’s purchase of the grains origination and storage and food ingredients business of Gavilon Agriculture Investment Inc. in 2022. Gavilon has been storing and distributing grains, oilseeds, and feed and food ingredients, to domestic and global markets, and will now be doing…
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