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Swedish ketchup producer Orkla brings PET bottle blow molding in-house to reduce its environmental footprint, allow for cold filling, and increase its production line efficiency. Orkla Foods Sweden is one of 10 businesses belonging to Orkla Foods, the parent company of which is one of Norway’s leading suppliers of branded consumer goods. At its plant

Dangote Group, owned by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, opened this month, a tomato-processing factory near Nigeria’s northern city of Kano aimed at vying for the local market with imports from China. “We have fully started operations today and the target is 1,200 metric tons per day,” Abdulkareem Kaita, managing director of Dangote Farms Ltd.,

Kagome is setting up a research and development center in Portugal to examine tomato cultivation techniques and develop improved varieties of tomato plants. As one of the world’s leading makers of ketchup and canned tomato products, the Japanese agribusiness company wants to establish mass cultivation technologies geared toward different climates and geologies around the world.

THE Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDZ) has allocated $9 million towards the establishment of tomato processing plants in Esigodini and Norton through a partnership with Schweppes Limited. The project will see the rural development authority putting into use a multi-million dollar tomato processing equipment that has been lying idle for several years. ARDA board

Erisco Foods Limited, with a capacity to produce 450,000 tonnes of tomato paste, is Africa’s largest and fourth in the world, according to its owners. It will locally produce tomatoes as raw material and promises to create thousands of jobs for Nigerians as long as the Federal Government supports and protects the $150 million plant.

Deal not signed, but company says it wants to increase order of Canadian-grown tomatoes. It appears The French’s Food Company’s expansion into ketchup production is a hit with consumers. The company is looking to increase its order of tomato paste at Highbury Canco to about three million kilograms, three and a half times more than

ALSAT has recently approved a new investment for 2.016 season targeting two main objectives: – The installation of a pre-evaporator with MRS (Mechanical Re-compression of the Steam). This new equipment will allow the production of low concentrated products as well as to improve the efficiency of the existing evaporators, reducing the energy consumption and CO2