The Natural Stone Council (NSC) and NSF International have developed the first sustainability assessment standard for stone – 'NSC 373 Sustainability Assessment for Natural Dimension Stone.' The standard defines criteria for the ...
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Miguel Galvez of NBD Nanotechnologies is recipient of 2013 Emerging Leaders Achievement Award. The International Desalination Association has announced the recipients of the Best Papers and Emerging Leaders Achievement Awards ths month's ...
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Mannington Commercial has been awarded Gold and Silver honors for product design in the 2013 Nightingale Awards. Sponsored by Contract Magazine, The Center for Health Design and Healthcare Design 2013, the awards showcase the best in ...
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It is no secret that laminate flooring is inherently green. It has been touted as such for years by the industry, but what is so environmentally friendly about laminate? Well, just about everything. Laminate is a fascinating product ...
As a leading supplier in the wire and rod industry, Mid American Steel and Wire knows that water used in the cooling process of steel manufacturing becomes contaminated and must be recycled or disposed of. Although Mid American has always ...
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The rest of the consumer product company’s sites in the UK and Ireland are at 94.4% recycling in overall tonnage. The FMCG giant set environmental targets in 2011 to reduce its packaging by 20% (per consumer use) by 2020 compared ...
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Based in Fargo, ND, CSM is a full-service packaging and labeling company that specializes in supplying investigational medicines, including cancer drugs and supplies for clinical trials. CSM's licensed pharmacists and pharmacy technicians ...
General Motors and Detroit Renewable Energy today announced a renewable energy project to turn solid municipal waste from Metro Detroit into process steam that will be used to heat and cool portions of GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck assembly ...
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Textile chemicals have symbiotic relationship with the textile industry, hence growth in textiles market coupled with growing textile trade is anticipated to positively influence the textile chemicals market in India. For the production of ...
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Pentair announced that it received an Aquatech Innovation Award for the Memthane Anaerobic Membrane Bio-Reactor (MBR), a joint innovation between Pentair and Veolia Biothane. Aquatech Amsterdam is the world s top trade exhibition for ...
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One of the success stories of beer brewing in Latin America, Compaa Cervecera de Nicaragua (CCN), is embarking on an environmental initiative that will see it harvest green energy from waste water to replace fossil fuels while achieving ...
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Global packaging services provider MeadWestvaco (MWV) has announced a 4% decrease in carbon emissions since 2010 in its corporate responsibility report for 2012. MWV has also reduced water usage by 5% and half of its global manufacturing ...
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Resilient flooring has grown from 13% to over 20% of the flooring market on a square footage basis over the last decade. In the last five years, it has been the fastest growing category, fueled in part by its frequent specification in ...
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By launching JL Renew, Jersey Lomellina has chosen to offer a range of sustainable fabrics, all produced with a 100% recycled polyamide, deriving from post-consumer materials: fishing nets, rigid tulle, carpet fluff etc... saved from the ...
Sabormex doubles environmental and profitability benefits with GWE clean water and green energy technology A global exporter of diversified food and beverage products, Sabormex, is capitalising on the benefits of its high-efficiency waste ...