Danone to invest US$65M to establish new bottle production line in Florida, US

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Shane Grant, Group Deputy CEO, North Americas said: “This investment will allow us to capitalize on consumer demand in key beverage categories including coffee creamers, plant-based creamers, and ready-to-drink coffee, while also supporting our long-term growth agenda.

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USA – Food and beverage company Danone North America has announced that it will invest up to US$65 million over the next two years to create a new bottle production line in Jacksonville, Florida.

The investment will support Danone North America’s long-term growth strategy and will deliver key benefits across the U.S. business, including advancing operational excellence, enabling flexibility in bottle design, accelerating the company’s

“It will also help us keep our products on our customers’ shelves and give more American consumers the Danone products they love.”

According to Danone, the expansion will create up to 40 new full-time jobs with competitive wages and benefits.

New employees will be eligible for Danone North America’s parental bonding leave policy, enabling all manufacturing employees with one year of tenure to take up to 18 weeks of paid time off after the birth or adoption of a child.

Danone North America is

EGYPT – Egypt’s agrifood group

Haj Arafa has announced plans to build a US$4 million date packaging unit next year in the Siwa oasis, west of Egypt.

The project will be implemented in collaboration with date producers in the region who will supply it with raw materials.

According to Al Attar, the new facility will provide, among other things, fruit sorting, cleaning and packing services.

The facility is expected to have a thermoforming packaging machine that allows dates to be packed in flexible film or rigid film, automatically.

The firm says that the production of the factory will be mainly reserved for the African and Asian markets. It should contribute to supporting the ambitions displayed by the local industry, which wishes to increase its export revenues to US$100 million by 2024 against an envelope of around US$40 million in 2021.

The new packaging facility comes as a boost in date production in the country. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report, Egypt’s annual production of dates surpasses 1.7 million tonnes.

Despite being among the top producers of dates, the country remains largely behind the international fruit trade due to the importance of its domestic consumption, which absorbs more than 80% of the local supply.