Swedish food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak has launched a new extrusion line for the production of ice cream sticks and sandwiches. The new line is capable of producing close to 43,200 pieces per hour at lowest operational ...
Tags: food packaging, Tetra Pak, packaging
The Hohenstein Institute has developed a model specifically for predicting the lifespan and period of use for cotton textiles, so that uniform providers can work out their costs for replacing worn out materials. “The weakness of ...
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The Mafatlal brand of Mafatlal Industries has been awarded India’s No.1 Brand in 2014 under India’s Best Textile Company category by the No.1 Brand Awards Council. The award was presented recently at a ceremony in Mumbai. ...
A newly published study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that improving the uniformity of lighting in parking lots can increase the sense of safety and security, as well as provide up to an ...
Tags: Uniform Lighting, HID lighting, LED
Pakistan's National Assembly standing committee on textile industry has recommended 2 per cent uniform rate of sales tax, against the proposed 5 per cent by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), on five leading export-oriented sectors - ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that Xiamen Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, China has purchased multiple TurboDisc EPIK 700 gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapor ...
Tags: LED, MOCVD Systems
TA1 texture analyser (available from Bestech Australia) is used by the Scottish Agricultural College for shear force measurements to measure the eating quality of meat. Uniformity and enhancement of meat eating quality is seen as an ...
Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc., the parent of Trotters and SoftWalk, reported first-quarter sales grew 16.7 percent to to $6.7 million from $5.7 million a year ago. The company saw growth in both its Trotters and Softwalk brands during the ...
Tags: Phoenix Footwear, Footwear
Cintas Canada released a new white paper titled ‘Should I Rent or Purchase Flame Resistant Clothing? Strategies for building a safer and more cost effective protective apparel programme.’ According to a Cintas press ...
Tags: FR clothing, Apparel
LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced WaveMax Technology as a waveguide platform featuring a combination of control, uniformity and efficiency to deliver solid-state lighting in new form factors that ...
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Cintas Corporation, an apparel uniforms program provider said that has recycled 19.5 million PET bottles and diverted them from landfills to manufacture apparel. Cintas uses plant-based ingredients and plastic bottles to create fibres ...
Tags: Cintas, Pet Bottles, apparel uniforms
The US Fashion Industry Association (USFIA) and the Foreign Trade Association (FTA) have reiterated the importance of concluding Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations as the ninth round of talks got underway in ...
Tags: Fashion Industry, fashion sector
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the UK's University of Cambridge has ordered its Propel Power gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Power Electronics, LEDs
Rust-Oleum launches 11 new game-changing products for exterior wood care category. Rust-Oleum Corporation introduces an enhanced line of deck coatings under the Rust-Oleum Restore brand. The new products simplify the deck refinishing ...
Tags: Deck Coatings, Exterior Wood Care
Making a case against plain cigarette packaging in the Commercial Court, Japan Tobacco International (JTI) Ireland, a distributor of well-known tobacco brands, has argued that being a member of the European Union (EU), Ireland can not ...