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manage the 184-year-old company,
Fribourg succeeds Donald L.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Staheli, chairman and CEO, who
Ghana has received a loan from retired on March 31. Staheli will
Saudi Arabia for development of the remain as chairman until June 30
supply, erection and commissioning and will continue to serve on the
of 250-tonne capacity grain storage board of Continental Grain and
silos at eight locations in Ghana.
ContiFinancial Corp.
The loan is also to be used to
Continental Grain also announced
supply all civil works and related that James J. Bigham had been
services. The Saudi government has elected to the newly created position
released an invitation to tender for of vice-chairman. He will continue
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of the facilities.
In early April, Bunge Corp.
The Port of Dalian Harbor announced that it has acquired an
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supplied by Simon-Carves Ltd., milling operations.
Cheadle Hulme, England. The
La Espiga currently operates
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a $9.7 million (£6 million) contract. The larger of the two, in Industrial
Simon-Carves, a part of the Simon Vallej, has a daily capacity of 700
Engineering Group, Stockport, tonnes, making it the largest mill in
England, provided two 750-tph Mexico City and the third largest in
Simporter twin belt shipunloaders, the country.
two 1,000-tph Simveyor and
La Espiga has been owned and
Simlofter systems and four fully- managed by two generations of
automatic rail wagon weighing and the Gil family and is currently
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managed by Ignacio Gil Sanchez,
These facilities can unload ocean- general manager, and his brother,
going vessels up to 80,000 dwt and Antonio Gil Sanchez, operations
continuously load individually manager.
weighed batches into rail wagons for
onward transportation to North East
Goodman Fielder, the largest
China. The total annual capacity of ÀRXU PLOOHU DQG EUHDG EDNHU LQ
the equipment is 3.5 million tonnes. Australia and New Zealand, has
sold Meneba B.V., its European
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capital group CVC Capital Partners
Continental Grain Co. announced BV for $235.3 million.
in early April that Paul J. Fribourg,
The March 7 announcement by
president
and Goodman Fielder came on the same
chief operating day it disclosed an agreement to
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est bread baker in New Zealand.
Together with Goodman Fielder
and Allied Mills, the three companies
are believed to have up to 85% of the
New Zealand milling market.

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Bartlett Milling Co., Kansas City,
Missouri, U.S., announced in April
that it has acquired the Wilson's
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Carolina, U.S.-based Midstate
Mills, Inc. Bartlett began operating
the mill on April 16.
The 476-tonne per 24-hour mill
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capacity to 1,642 tonnes. Opened
in 2000, the Wilson's Mills facility
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mills. According to Bartlett, the
mill "incorporates state-of-theart milling and product handling
technology."
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600,000 bushels of grain storage
and will be Bartlett's second mill in
North Carolina.

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ConAgra Mills, a unit of ConAgra
Foods, Inc., is expanding capacity at
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In a project set to begin later this
spring, ConAgra will increase daily
milling capacity at Saginaw to 667
tonnes from the current 285 tonnes.
"We view Texas as an excellent
growth market," said Paul Maass,
vice-president and general manager
of ConAgra Mills.
The Kazakh national holding
company KazAgro plans to build
a grain terminal near the board
with China, KazAgro Chairman
Alikhan Smalov said at a Kazakh
Agriculture Ministry board session
on April 19. The project will cost an
estimated $10 million.
KazAgro also plans to build grain
terminals at the Georgian seaport
of Poti and the Iranian port of
Amirabad, Smailov said.

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