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Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, has announced plans to open a new Packaging Design Studio in Milan in summer 2026.

Primo Brands has energised a 13-megawatt DC on-site solar project at its Poland Spring bottling facility in Hollis, Maine, in partnership with Onyx Renewables and PowerFlex.

Coca-Cola Canada Bottling has announced a CAD 141 million (approx. $102.9 million) investment to expand its manufacturing and distribution facility in Brampton, Ontario.

Soufflet Malt has today announced plans to build a tech-driven, AI-integrated malting facility in South Rajasthan, India, as part of an INR 1,200 crore (approx. €100 million) investment.

US-based Tilray Brands has entered into a exclusive brewing and licensing agreement with Danish brewer Carlsberg, starting 1 January 2027.

In this interview, Tetra Pak's Rafael Barros explains how Bioreactors.net strengthens the company’s New Food fermentation capabilities and helps customers scale production from lab to industrial level.

Smithfield Foods has announced plans to build a new packaged meat and fresh pork processing facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US.

MicroHarvest has chosen Industriepark Leuna in Saxony-Anhalt as the site for a planned industrial-scale production facility for protein ingredients made via biomass fermentation.

Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses has officially opened a new, integrated Cheese Campus in Lancashire, two years after a fire destroyed its Longridge office and packing site.

Bakeit, the owner of cereal bar brand Boka, has expanded its breakfast portfolio by opening a £3 million British granola manufacturing facility in Winchester, Hampshire.

US agribusiness giant Cargill will permanently close its beef processing facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, eliminating 221 jobs.

Soufflet Malt has officially broken ground on a €100 million malting facility in Midvaal, Gauteng.