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British Sugar sees 11% rise in 2013 sugar output
2014-01-20 07:38:57| Sugar Industry News
British Sugar expects to see a 11% rise in sugar production in 2013 up to 1.28m tonnes as it looks for a stronger UK sugar industry after European Union quotas are abolished in 2017.
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Googles next project: Smart contact lenses that measure blood sugar levels
2014-01-17 15:28:50| Extremetech
Google X, the secretive research lab famed for its work on Glass and Google's self-driving cars, has unveiled its next product: Smart contact lenses. The first smart contact lens, aimed at diabetics, takes a glucose level reading every second from the tears that wash over your eye when you blink, and transmits that data wirelessly to a nearby device. Google doesn't say what device, but presumably a smartphone or Google Glass. Yes, if Google X has its way, we will soon all look like cyborgs, our bodies becoming networks of implants and augmentations.
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Nigeria consumes less sugar than South Africa Clark
2014-01-16 08:26:02| Sugar Industry News
Graham Clark is the new Group Managing Director of Dangote Sugar Refinery. In this interview, Clark, an Australian born in Zimbabwe, said although production of sugar worldwide has been static, leading to its price rising, Nigerians will continue to have a fair price deal. Excerpts;
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Pan-Caribbean Sugar to pump US$200m in Monymusk and Frome upgrading
2014-01-16 08:26:02| Sugar Industry News
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) Chinese outfit Pan-Caribbean Limited, operators of the Monymusk and Frome sugar factories, has announced plans to pump between US$180 million and US$200 million into enhancing the plants, and upgrading equipment at the two facilities
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Gov't support for sugar industry urged
2014-01-16 08:26:02| Sugar Industry News
There should be more government support for the sugar industry, especially with the scheduled drop of tariffs on imported sugar entering the country to a nominal 5 percent next year, Negros Occidental Gov. Alfredo Maraon Jr. said yesterday.
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