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hectoliter

[′hek·tə‚lēd·ər]
(mechanics)
A metric unit of volume equal to 100 liters or to 0.1 cubic meter. Abbreviated hl.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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SMB has capacity to produce 16.8 million hectoliters of beverage in the Philippines yearly.
volume demand, bringing output to about 17 million hectoliters.
Brito said revenue per hectoliter grew by 4.9% in the full year.
As elsewhere in France, the heat and lack of rain led to a much smaller crop, with some 800,000 hectoliters being harvested from the region's 12 appellations, down about 40%.
AB InBev reduced its energy use per hectoliter of production by 3.7 percent in 2010, from 133.6 to 128.7 MJ/hl, and more than 14 percent from the 2007 level of 150.7 MJ/hl.
Final numbers haven't been crunched, but the overall harvest for Spain should be well down from 2000's record of 44 million hectoliters at about 35 million hectoliters, still an above average crop.
breweries have helped lead the way in our water conservation goals by achieving a combined 3.60 hectoliters of water for each hectoliter of production in 2010, and have reduced their water use by 34 percent over the past three years," said Pete Kraemer, vice president of Supply for A-B InBev's North American Zone.
When Heineken NV and Asia Pacific bought a 21% stake in 12th-ranked Kingway Brewery Holdings last year, they paid about $122 per hectoliter. Heineken is currently seeking to up its stake in Kingway, but may have to compete with other international firms to do it.
The volume of beer sales in the second quarter of 2019 grew by 4.3% to 338 thousand hectoliters. In total, the volume of beer sales over the first six months is 750 thousand hectoliters, or 75 million liters.
Beer giant San Miguel Brewery plans to expand its footprint in Vietnam by building a brand-new beer brewery with an annual production capacity of at least two million hectoliters in Ho Chi Minh, this country's most populous city.
Ang said that, "if we are putting up a new plant, it will have a capacity of at least 2 million hectoliters with an investment of about $70 million."
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