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Byline: Tom Henderson Two large manufacturing operations in St. Clair County, one in the city of St. Clair and the other in Marysville, have embarked on large, capital-intensive expansion projects. [...]

Cargill has outlined its plan to eliminate deforestation from its cocoa supply chain.According to a media release, the Protect Our Planet plan provides concrete actions the company is taking to [...]

GLOBAL demand for protein is rising rapidly, challenging farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses to feed a growing population while protecting the planet. Across the food and agriculture industry, there is a [...]

Joe Khawaja is the new chief financial officer for Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity in St. Paul, Minn. He had served as director of finance, strategy and operations support for [...]

The growing consumption of biodiesel fuel is creating a glut of glycerol (glycerin, 1,2,3-trihydropxypropane). Manufacturing fatty acid esters for biodiesel from triglycerides from plant oils or animal fats is generating [...]

Cargill Adds to Ethanol Capacity BLAIR, NE - Cargill plans a new 110-million-gal/yr ethanol plant at the Blair corn-processing complex. The new plant will more than double the facility's ethanol [...]

Big grain processing and food producer Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, MN) plans to invest in a new 200,000 metric ton-per-year biodiesel facility in Mainz, Germany. Rapeseed or other vegetable oil raw [...]

* Cargill Inc. plans to idle its corn processing facility in Dimmitt, TX, citing poor returns in the high fructose corn syrup business. Local customers will be supplied using existing [...]

Atchison, KS-based MGP Ingredients, Inc. and Cargill announced a business alliance for the production and marketing of a new resistant starch product called Fibersym HA that is derived from high [...]

Senators Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are considering legislation to prevent Cargill's plans to import Brazilian ethanol via El Salvador. But, Cargill is still considering duty-free ethanol imports [...]

* Cargill Inc. plans to announce it discovered genetic markers in cattle that make for good-tasting meat. This summer, the company intends to introduce a prototype blood test in its [...]

Cargill is preparing a push into nutrition additives, starting with a prototype dubbed 'Bone Appetite'--a raspberry tea to strengthen bones. Intended to appeal to women, the raspberry tea contains AdvantaSoy, [...]

California's request for a waiver from the federal reformulated gasoline requirement has started an increased demand for ethanol. California is now required to replace methyl-tertiary-butyl-ether (MTBE) as an oxygenating agent [...]

Groundwork has begun for a new $14 million concrete elevator and farm service centre near Clavet. The elevator will have storage capacity of 21,000 tonnes and a 112-car railway spot [...]

Cargill Foods announced at IFT plans for a three-year, multi-phase expansion of its food starch operation located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The first phase will be completed in October and [...]

Cargill Inc. is still looking for a new operator for Terminal 86, the Port of Seattle's 107,000-metric-ton grain terminal. Minneapolis-based Cargill must sell the terminal as part of an antitrust [...]

MOREE, AUSTRALIA -- Cargill Inc. has announced plans to reduce cottonseed oil processing operations at its cottonseed plant in Moree due to a decrease in the availability of seed, that [...]

CARGILL'S SALT division plans to open a salt processing, packaging, warehousing and bulk operation in the Port of Tampa, Fla. The company says the new facility will help it to [...]

Food Processing magazine's annual report on the 100 top companies in the food industry shows a slight improvement in sales for 1983 over l982. General Foods was number one in sales followed by Beatrice Foods Co. Several food companies, including CPC International, Anheuser-Busch and Stouffer Foods, plan expansions in 1984. Important acquisitions in 1983 include Quaker Oats takeover of Stokely-Van Camp and Esmark purchase of Norton Simon Inc.

CARGILL Inc. said last week its meat processing business, which is the largest beef and fourth-largest pork processor in the U.S., plans to build a meat research and development facility [...]

MARFRIG Alimentos S.A. announced last week plans to build a new poultry complex in Mato Grosso state in Brazil that will have a capacity of 200,000 chickens per day, increasing [...]

Brazilian meat processor Marfrig Alimentos S.A. plans to raise 1.4 billion reals ($793 million) through a public offering to finance its recent acquisition of Seara Alimentos Ltd., according to an [...]

CARGILL, Minneapolis, has announced plans to commercialize a proprietary process for using glycerin--an abundant, low-cost co-product of biodiesel production--as feedstock for a platform of bio-based products, beginning with renewable propylene [...]