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Processing
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Highbury Canco, Kraft Heinz Canada renew agreement
Highbury Canco announced it has renewed its agreement with Kraft Heinz Canada to produce a range of Kraft Heinz products at its Leamington, Ont. facility. The multi-year agreement is worth approximately $1 billion, at retail value. Highbury Canco has a…
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A factory dedicated to manufacturing dog and cat food being built in Drummondville
Groupe Inovo, a family poultry business, and Groupe Legault, a family business that owns Mondou pet store chain, are uniting their expertise to create Jupiter, a state-of-the-art plant that will be located in Drummondville, Quebec and will manufacture dry dog and cat food. This…
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New trade show in São Paulo, Brazil
INTECHTRA is the new trade fair for the beverage, food and packaging industries in South America. INTECHTRA will make its debut next year, opening its doors for the very first time between March 31 and April 3, 2020, at the…
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New agrifood immigration pilot aims to help processors address labour shortage
Some Canadian food processors will be able to maintain foreign workers with more ease thanks to a new federally-funded pilot program that will allow foreign workers the opportunity to apply to become residents after one year of full-time employment. The…
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Exceldor Cooperative and Granny’s Poultry Cooperative Combine Operations
Exceldor and Granny’s Poultry cooperatives announced today that they are combining their operations and members in a “historic alliance.” The companies said in a release that the main objective of the merger is to create a large cooperative that will…
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Calgary-based Botaneco™ Inc. is the first to receive co-investment from Protein Industries Canada
Protein Industries Canada has announced that Calgary-based Botaneco Inc. is the first company to receive co-investment from the industry-led consortia that’s co-investing in Canadian innovation projects. A total of $8 million, comprised of $4 million of co-investment from Protein Industries Canada…
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Thermo Fisher Scientific latest metal detector
Minneapolis, Min. – Food manufacturers supplying packaged products to retailers can now use the latest metal detection technology from Thermo Fisher Scientific to meet the “gold standard” requirements set by Marks & Spencer, a leading U.K. retailer, one of the…
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Agri-Neo introduces Neo-Pure, a new food safety system
Agri-Neo introduced their new and improved organic, non-thermal Neo-Pure™ food safety system that pasteurizes nuts, seeds and grains and increases throughput, efficiency and cost-savings for food processors. Neo-Pure provides a validated five-log kill step for a wide range of low-moisture…
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Burcon to build $65 Million pea and canola protein production plant
Burcon NutraScience Corporation has announced that it has entered into a joint venture partnership with an investor group to build a new C$65 million pea-protein and canola-protein commercial production facility in Western Canada. The protein production facility, which is planned…
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Burcon introduces Nutratein® plant protein ingredients, blends of pea and canola proteins
Vancouver, B.C. – Burcon NutraScience Corporation has launched its new pea-protein and canola-protein blends: Nutratein-PS™ and Nutratein-TZ™. The company said in a release that its novel canola and pea proteins, when combined, “create unique, unparalleled plant-protein blends, with exceptional functional…
