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TURKEY- İmas, a publicly traded Turkish machinery manufacturer, has launched a new office in Levent, Istanbul to better cater to its growing demand for grain and feed milling machinery operations. The company, which has been on the Istanbul Stock Exchange since April 2022, has been growing with new investments. Currently based in Konya city, the company has a high capacity…
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TURKEY – Depart, Alapala Holding’s group company for milling spare part sales and after-sales services has partnered with Italian HBTS Packaging to expand its solutions to include vertical packaging. Under the agreement, Depart will manage the sales and marketing of HBTS’s vertical packaging machines in all of Africa, the Far East, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. The horizontal/flow-back packaging…
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TURKEY- Istanbul-based Şadanlar Pet, a producer of dry and wet pet food, has opened a new factory in the Ezine Gıda organized industrial zone, in the country’s western part, amid rising demand for its products. This Turkish company, having been in existence for almost four decades, produces pet food under the flagship Dr. Sacchi brand. Additionally, the company distributes various…
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TURKEY- According to a televised speech by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the Ukraine Black Sea grain deal has been extended for two more months, merely hours before Russia could have quit the pact over obstacles to its grain and fertilizer exports. The U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hails this as “good news for the world,” as the flow of ships through…
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TURKEY – The Turkish government has imposed a 130% import tariff on some grain imports, including wheat and corn, according to a presidential decision published in the Official Gazette as Reuters reported. This tariff is over 6 times higher than it was half a decade ago at 19.9% for wheat. Moreover, there was no import tax on wheat, barley, rye,…
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UKRAINE- Ukrainian officials said the Black Sea Grain Initiative was in danger of shutting down after Russia frustrated inspections of participating ships in Turkish waters, according to a report by Reuters. Ukraine’s restoration ministry said in a Facebook post headlined “Grain Initiative under threat of a shutdown” that this is the second time in 9 months of operation of the…
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TURKEY- Ankara-based equipment manufacturer, Erkaya, has introduced its Harinograph and Elastograph to measure essential parameters for the flour milling industry. Founded in 2001, Erkaya is a leading manufacturer of “far beyond the ordinary” wheat and flour analyzing instruments and improvers for flour mills and bakeries. Being ISO 9001:2000 certified, Erkaya exports its offerings worldwide, carrying out installations in different countries,…
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