Africa: Coca-Cola fills beverages with fruit with KHS lines
Coca-Cola Canners in South Africa has opted for a high-performance hot filling line from KHS for its juice and sports beverages.
It was decided to...
World: Beam Suntory buys 50% of South African company
Beam Suntory has acquired a 50% equity stake in ABV Brands Proprietary Ltd., an independent distributor of premium spirits in South Africa, from Cyprus-based...
Africa: Biolabex opens lab in Mauritius
Biolabex, a Mauritius-based research and development (R&D) laboratory, launches development and manufacturing activities in BioPark Mauritius.
Recently accredited as the first good manufacturing practice or...
Africa: Pentair, partners open solar-powered community site
Pentair joins The Coca-Cola Company, Ericsson, Medshare, Phillips, Solarkiosk and TIGO Rwanda to open the flagship solar-powered Ekocenter in Ruhunda, Rwanda.
The site was designed...
Africas: Symrise, partners join Save the Children program
Vanilla supplier Symrise, Unilever, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit join Save the Children to help improve the livelihoods of vanilla farming communities in...
Europe: Mettler Toledo gives five-year generator warranty for machine range
Mettler-Toledo is offering an industry first, five-year generator warranty for all new x-ray inspection systems within the X-Series range, purchased with either a Standard...
Africa: Malawi gets US$22.6M for malnutrition among children, disease prevention causes
The World Bank has granted Malawi US$22.6 million just over half of which will be used to help curb acute malnutrition in under-five children...
Africa: Health authority uses green system to pasteurize milk
South Africa's Department of Health has endorsed ongoing studies of the use of SurePure's ultra-violet (UV) photopurification as an alternative to pasteurization for the...
World: Food insecurity spreads in Pacific, Caribbean states
Drought linked to El Niño and civil conflict have pushed the number of countries currently in need of external food assistance up to 37...
Africas: FOGA Gum to digital processes with Chemometric Brain solutions
FOGA Gum enters into an agreement to use Chemometric Brain solutions to digitize quality control, facilitating sample analysis and validating quality, homogeneity and traceability...