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Coveris pursues expansion Ban on pet sales hanging
over New York pet stores
The European packaging com- not only expand the company’s
pany Coveris continues to expand product offering but also in- New York State in the USA has The legislation has been con-
and has announced its successful crease production capacity. In
taken a step closer to its aim of sidered in Albany before, but has
acquisition of Four04. Based in addition, its market presence in
banning the sale of cats, dogs and always stalled.
Norwich in Great Britain, the fam- Great Britain, an important mar- rabbits in pet stores. Following a
ily-owned firm specialises in ship- ket in this field, will be strength- vote by the state’s senate in favour
ping bags and in packaging for ened, according to Coveris. With of the move last summer, the state
fruit and vegetables, fresh foods headquarters in Vienna, Coveris legislature’s agriculture commit-
and baked goods. operates 28 subsidiaries em-
tees, which oversee pet dealers,
The integration of Four04 ploying a total of 4 100 staff in have also voted for it, according to
into the Coveris network will the EMEA region.
a report in the Democrat & Chron-
icle daily. If the full chamber were
to approve the draft bill, it would
Tomra Food publishes new e-book hit the 80 or so pet stores regis-
tered in New York hard.
Tomra Food has published an global demand for high-quality Animal welfare organisations
e-book to help pet food proces- pet food increases as pet own- and a host of politicians have
sors and ingredient suppliers ers in developing nations begin protested for years that the vast
counteract the threats posed by to earn more disposable income majority of animals for sale in pet
aflatoxin, foreign materials and and shoppers in developed na- stores come from puppy mills.
cross-contamination. The six-page These are “places of unimagina-
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publication explains how many ble cruelty,” assemblywoman
businesses could be doing more Linda Rosenthal, the bill’s spon- In the USA, the sale of pets in pet
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to ensure their production stand- sor, told the local press. stores has been heavily criticised.
ards, protect their customers’ rep- ... natural healthy!
utations, and safeguard their cus-
tomers’ beloved pets. tions drive the premiumisation of Nestlé invests in China pet food
In addition to the need to pet food containing near-human- market
ensure food safety, flawless grade ingredients.
product quality is also impera- https://food.tomra. In the last 11 months, Nestlé has phase of the company’s expan-
tive. The e-book spotlights how com/petfood-ebook invested over 1 bn yuan (approx. sion plan aims to ramp up the fac-
129 mio euros) in expanding its tory’s production of veterinary pet
pet food manufacturing in Tianjin, food using high-end prescription
China. This is according to a report grain production facilities. It will
by the online industry magazine be the company’s first such plant
PetfoodIndustry.com. in China, Oceania and Africa and
The company recently topped its fourth in the world, Nestlé said.
up its over 730 mio yuan (ap- Production should start by the
prox. 94.17 mio euros) invest- end of 2021. The second phase,
ment made in May 2020 with happening in the first quarter of
230 million yuan (29.67 mio eu- 2023, will see the construction of
ros) to support a two-phase im- a new pet food canning line that
provement to its pet food plant in will produce customised, high-
the Tianjin Economic-Technolog- end wet canned products for the
ical Development Area. The first local Chinese pet market.

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