Biodiesel has faced a backlash in recent years, as critics charge the industry with razing land and pushing up food costs. But as its competitors struggle, one Hong Kong-based company is moving ahead with a US$165 million plant that turns ...
Tags: Biodiesel Plant, Energy
Agricultural product exports from Liaoning province were $3.31 billion in the first eight months of 2013, up 10 percent year-on-year, according to the local government. In the past eight months, the total export trade volume of marine ...
Tags: Agro Exports, Chemicals
Risk transfer is an accepted financing technique usually associated with purchasing insurance to transfer the risk to an insurance company. For the past several years, though, we have seen an increasing tendency amongst shippers to use ...
Tags: Transportation, insurance, Auto Parts
Airports are benefitting from the sustainable growth in the aerospace industry. They are increasingly developing into retail centers and will become even more closely integrated into urban areas in the future. At the same time, capacity ...
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US-based paperboard packaging firm Zumbiel Packaging has secured an ISO-based food safety certification, FSSC 22000. Zumbiel Packaging, in a bid to achieve industry certification for its facility, has successfully implemented all ...
Biofilms producer Innovia Films and Corbion Purac have jointly developed a range of transparent, biobased, temperature stable and heat resistant poly lactic acid (PLA) films. The new film is said to exhibit less shrinkage at high ...
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Sockeye Brewing and Crown Holdings' business unit CROWN Beverage Packaging North America has introduced Dagger Falls IPA beers in limited-edition pink color cans for cancer awareness. The new 12 oz cans, which will be available in ...
Tags: Sockeye Brewing, IPA Beers, Pink Cans
The Local Enterprise Authority (LEA), a statutory authority of the Government of Botswana, and a milk processing firm MilkAfric have inked a memorandum of understanding to empower young dairy entrepreneurs. As per the agreed terms, an ...
Tags: Dairy Entrepreneurs, Food
US-based Precision Spine has announced it will introduce several new and expanded product offerings at 28th annual North American Spine Society Meeting being held October 9-12 of this year in New Orleans, Louisiana. The company will ...
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Cytori Therapeutics has obtained approval from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore for the Celution system, designed for autologous re-implantation or re-infusion of a patient’s own adipose-derived regenerative cells ...
Tags: Celution System, Medicine
US-based biotechnology firm GeoVax Labs has received a notice of allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for patent that covers compositions, methods and uses of the company's DNA/MVA vaccine in eliciting cellular and ...
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ISTO Technologies has completed enrollment of its Phase II clinical trial of NuQu, a novel, cell-based therapy for the treatment of pain and disability associated with degenerated spinal discs. The company has completed enrollment of 44 ...
Tags: ISTO Technologies, Back Pain Study
InSite Vision Incorporated (INSV) has reported that the US District Court for the District of New Jersey upheld all four of the patents protecting AzaSite, an azithromycin 1% ophthalmic solution, in a patent infringement lawsuit against ...
US-based specialty pharmaceutical firm Par Pharmaceutical has received final approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for clonidine hydrochloride (HCl) extended-release (ER) ...
Tags: Par Pharmaceutical, Medicine
MAX BioPharma has exclusively licensed the small molecule oxysterols from University of California, Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University in the US. The pharmaceutical company has also received a Small Business Innovation Research ...