Asia Pacific
Asia Pacific: Cargill spends US$50M on Thai poultry factory
Cargill is investing US$50 million to expand poultry processing operations at its facility located in the Nakhon Ratchasima province in Thailand.
The expansion will...
Asia Pacific: The Coca-Cola Company refranchises bottling operations in China
The Coca-Cola Company and its three main bottling groups in China - Coca-Cola Bottling Investments Group China (BIG), COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages Limited and Swire Beverages Holdings Limited (Swire) commemorated the...
Asia Pacific: GNT appoints distributor in Taiwan
GNT Group has appointed Heng Yi Trading as its official service agent in Taiwan.
“In view of the rising skepticism towards additives among consumers in Taiwan,...
Asia Pacific: Lactose-free milk powders debuts in China’s e-commerce space
Finnish dairy pioneer Valio has started exporting lactose-free milk powders to China, being the first in the market to do so.
The milk powders...
Asia Pacific: Ingredion adds second facility in China
Ingredion has acquired Shandong Huanong Specialty Corn Development in China, thereby adding a second manufacturing facility to Ingredion's operations in China.
It will produce starch...
Asia Pacific: Fonterra gives run down on market preferences for dairy
While most established dairy markets have an already well-defined product mix, consumer preference is quickly moving in new directions off-shore as markets across wider...
Asia Pacific: Givaudan opens center in Singapore
Givaudan has expanded its Flavour Innovation Centre in Singapore with S$7 million (US$4.9 million).
The center is home to the Asia Pacific (APAC) campus of the...
Asia Pacific: Fonterra brings the dairy farm to Singapore
Delegates at the recent NIZO Protein Dairy Conference in Singapore donned virtual reality headsets to step briefly into the dairy farm virtual world, which...
Asia Pacific: Fonterra’s site named most energy-efficient in NZ
The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority has named Fonterra’s Edendale site as the most energy-efficient dairy manufacturing site in New Zealand.
The site has become...
Asia Pacific: SATO aims to be top in Thailand
SATO announced plans to become the number one auto-identification (Auto-ID) company in Thailand by 2018, through development of food safety and patient safety solutions...