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WORLD NEWS
INDIA
GLOBAL
GOOD 2013 OuTLOOK FLAT YEAR
W
ith customers across the
globe, New Era
Machines, a leading
manufacturer of
automated production lines for the
biscuit industry capable of executing
turn key projects for biscuits and
cookie production, sees 2013 as an
opoortunity to offer more.
With 2012 being ‘a great year’,
the company has already doubled the
size of production with an extension
of the production floor and factory is
under construction while a new head
office will be built for a staff of 100.
New Era’s standards have become
a measuring stick customer
satisfaction with the build quality of
lines and the most advanced
technology delivered at competitive
pricing for fully-customised products
that match the customers’ demands.
In house design, research &
evelopment, hi-tech manufacturing
facilities with skilled engineers and a
fully mechanised manufacturing
process as well as after sales support
allows NEM to outdo its competitors.
New Era Machines does not
depend on any third party for
manufacturing and has equipment
running round the clock across North
America, the European Union, Africa
and the Far East.
A recent contract was a plant set
up in India with a 100-meter oven
capable of producing 10,000 biscuits
in an hour. The line is controlled via
touch panels, installed at regular
intervals for ease of operations. The
oven uses direct force convection
technology.
oyal DSM has reported a
broadly flat sales performance
for 4Q12 and for the full year.
Operating profit, however, fell
by 28 per cent in the quarter and 27
per cent for the year, with gains in
nutrition more than offset by
reductions in the company’s polymer
intermediates business. Net profit was
down 75 per cent for the quarter, and
65 per cent for the year.
The company described its
performance as ‘solid’, and said that it
was positioned for strong EBITDA
growth.
“In the context of challenging
macro-economic conditions, DSM
delivered growth across all clusters in
2012, excluding caprolactam,” said
Feike Sijbesma, CEO/chairman of the
DSM Managing Board.
R
DENMARK
RECORD FINANCIAL YEAR FOR ARLA
ergers, acquisitions and
strong brands were
behind the significant
rise in Arla’s turnover in
2012, according to the company.
Despite what it described as
significant price pressure on the
global market in the first half of the
year, Arla delivered results in line
with expectations.
Turnover rose 15 per cent to DKK
63.1 billion (against DKK 54.9 billion
in 2011). As expected, consolidated
net profit amounted to three per cent
of turnover and totalled DKK 1.9
billion in 2012 (DKK 1.4 billion in
2011).
2012 saw strategic developments
in Arla’s growth markets and historic
expansion in Europe. This w \\