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Moderna continues its Interpets heads to Osaka
sustainability mission The Japanese pet trade fair Inter- of food, housing, interior design

pets will head to Osaka for a new and accessories, IT, automobiles,
The Belgium-based manufacturer made from +98 per cent recycled
Moderna has been audited and plastic. show in 2023. The new edition, tourism, leisure and health care.
certified in its use of post-indus- “With this certification we which follows the Interpets Asia Messe Frankfurt, the organ-
Pacific fair in Tokyo, but with a re- iser of Interpets, aims to attract
trial and post-consumer recycled can guarantee to our custom-
gional twist, will be launched on approximately 150 exhibitors
material. The audit was organised ers that our products are made
in collaboration with Centexbel from +98 per cent, higher-qual- 16-18 June at Intex Osaka. The fair and 12 000 visitors over the
for the entire range of products ity recycled plastic,” states the will showcase pet-related prod- three-day period of the Osaka
company. Furthermore, ucts and services in the fields event.
all recycled products can
be traced back fully over Manna Pro Products is renamed
the entire production pro-
cess. On 1 March, the globally active quoted as saying. 15 acquisitions
company Manna Pro Products was have been completed in the last
Moderna in Belgium renamed Compana Pet Brands. ten years, and the company now
manufactures its products
from +98 per cent recycled “As Manna Pro, our company has has sales to the value of 600 mio
plastic. changed substantially in the last dollars.
ten years,” CEO John Howe is

Hunter opens new brand stores
United Petfood acquires
It has been announced that Hunter stores to 31. The sixth Hong Kong
opened two new stores last Au- store, on a 50 m² retail area, also Neodis Mornac
gust, bringing the number of brand features a 30 m² grooming unit. United Petfood has announced the been producing dry pet food for
A third store was opened in
Advertisement acquisition of the La Braconne fac- both dogs and cats since 1976. It
Belgium in Retinne, close to Lüt- tory of Neodis Group in Mornac, employs around 50 people. With
tich. This has a retail area of 400 France. “The acquisition of this the additional production plant in
m². Two other stores are located
Your animal and us!
Your animal and us!
A good team - for a lifetime.
A good team - for a lifetime. pet food factory offers us new France, United Petfood Group now
in Brussels and in Rhode-Saint- opportunities for growth and syn- operates out of 20 pet food facili-
Genèse.
ergy in a fast-moving market,” ties situated in 8 different Euro-
the company states in a press pean countries.
release. The Neodis factory has

The Neodis factory has been
operating since 1976 and
Retinne was the location for the opening of Hunter’s third brand store in employs around 50 people.
Belgium.

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