News on Processing Equipment from Asia

February 09, 2012

BMA Nederland to install a second potato flake line for Merino Industries

BMA Nederland BV will install a second potato flake line for Merino. Merino Industries Ltd. is one of the most successful potato flake producers in India. The company is situated in Hapur near New Delhi.

December 04, 2011

Mediation in potato packing dispute Cyprus

The dispute between workers at the potato packaging factory in Vryssoules and their employers will be discussed at the Labour Ministry on Monday. The two sides met at the ministry yesterday and relayed their views to the mediation service. The ministr...

November 30, 2011

Potato packers in Cyprus on strike over plans for cheap labour

Approximately 100 Greek-Cypriot potato packers in Vrysoulles went on strike yesterday against their employer’s intention to sack them and replacing them with EU community workers from Eastern Europe. The strike was organised by workers’ unions SEK and...

November 16, 2011

New French fry line at Dogaseed successfully installed

Doga Seed and BMA successfully completed the installation of a new 3000 kg/h french fries production line in Nevsehir, Turkey.

November 02, 2011

Indian Packaging industry forecast to rise

The Indian packaging industry is set to rise by 15% every year due to growing consumption and demand for packaged products across the country, states the Indian Institute of Packaging in Hyderabad (IIP-H). The $13.5bn industry is expected to reach $18...

September 29, 2011

Bosch Packaging Technology expands in China

Bosch Packaging Technology, a leading supplier of process and packaging technology, is expanding its operations in China and enlarging its site in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

September 29, 2011

China is aiming to be the biggest packaging producer in the world by 2012

The report, Paper and Packaging Sector M&A Update, says that China intends to increase their packaging market share “aggressively,” over the next year. “Their stated aim is to become the world’s largest packaging producers by the end of 2012, whic...

July 26, 2011

Heat and Control acquires Flavorite Technologies

Heat and Control, a leading supplier of processing and packaging machinery to the global food processing industry, has acquired Flavorite Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

May 29, 2011

First BMA potato flake line in production in China

Chifeng City Linkage Food Co. in Inner Mongolia celebrated this grand official opening on 29 December 2010.

April 18, 2011

BMA will commission a 3.000 kg/hr French Fries installation at Doga Seed in Turkey in 2011.

Doga Seed has placed the order for the supply and installation of a complete 3000 kg/h High-tech Frozen French Fries installation, to be established in the Nev?ehir Province in Turkey. It has chosen BMA for its excellent reputation in French Fries ind...

January 30, 2011

Giant Agro Processing Limited to produce virus-free potato seeds for Bangladesh

iant Agro Processing Limited plans to produce some 1000 tonnes of virus- free potato seeds this year, which include breeder seeds, foundation-grade seeds and mini tubers, a top official said.

January 13, 2011

Pakistan installs first automated potato washer to meet Russian import requirements

Conceding to Russia’s terms of importing potatoes from Pakistan, a private sector company has installed the country’s first automated potato cleaning plant in Karachi.

December 14, 2010

Konya Şeker applies Key Technology's ADR®First solution to maximize potato strip quality and yield

Unlike other potato processors that use optical sorters to remove defects on their primary lines, Konya Seker relies on an ADR®5 Automatic Defect Removal System from Key Technology.

November 16, 2010

Growth rate of China's packaging sector at 37.2%

The prosperity index of equipment manufacturing industry from China Economic Monitoring Center indicated that after the seasonal adjustment, the growth rate of packaging equipments in Q3 reached 37.2 percent year on year.

October 16, 2010

New ways to use packaging to connect to consumers

What do you get when you combine a consumer society that is increasingly mobile, global, and “linked in,” one that demands the delivery of data to their fingertips 24/7, with packaged goods producers clamoring to differentiate themselves on and off the shelf?

October 11, 2010

Bosch packaging technology builds new plant in India

Bosch Packaging Technology, one of the leading suppliers for total solutions in packaging and process technology, has acquired 33,000 square meters of land in the Verna Industrial Estate to build up its new plant.

October 10, 2010

Bangladesh: higher incentives for potato export and support for potato processors urged

Bangladesh Cold Storage Association (BCSA) on Saturday urged the government to double the cash incentive from its current level of 10 percent to boost exports of the vegetable stored in 313 cold storages across the country.

August 29, 2010

Ishida Welcomes New President

For only the fourth time in its 117 year history, Ishida Co., Ltd. has a new company president – Mr. Takahide Ishida.Takahide assumes leadership of Ishida’s worldwide operations from his father, Ryuichi, who held the position for over 42 years and who,...