Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) is lending its support to the first quantitative study for the reduction of plastic waste in Japan. Dow will provide financial assistance to study the impact of plastic waste and debris on the ...
Of 3.1 million tons of PET bottles and containers placed in Europe last year, a 59.8% (1.88 million tons) of them were collected and 1.77 million tons have been recycled, according to a survey by Petcore Europe. The survey revealed that ...
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South African specialist paper company Sappi has unveiled plans to expand its dissolving wood pulp (DWP) capacity by 2020. The company's plans include potential expansion at its Saiccor DWP Mill to increase the mill’s capacity by ...
Comexi, specialist in solutions for the flexible packaging industry, was awarded with an E-TECH Digital Award 2017 for its Comexi Cloud technology. These awards, given biannually by the Associació d’Empreses de Noves ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance for drug manufacturers to clarify when a gluten-containing ingredient has been used to make prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley ...
Food industry leaders have urged the UK and European Union (EU) policy makers to make swift progress on Brexit trade negotiations. FoodDrinkEurope and the UK Food and Drink Federation have issued a joint statement on the progress of ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released new guidance for drug makers on prescription drug promotion. FDA has released two Federal Register notices pertained to prescription drug promotion from the FDA Center for Drug ...
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The results of a controlled horticulture lighting study conducted by the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA have ...
Researchers from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and experts from industry and academia have developed software tools, which can predict the fiber orientation and length distribution of ...
Despite revolutionizing illumination, even top-of-the-line nitride LEDs are far from their maximum efficiency when operating at the high power needed for lighting applications. Logan Williams and Emmanouil Kioupakis at the University of ...
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Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced that it will roll out an electric vehicle under the Toyota brand in the Chinese market in 2020, and that the scope of a fuel-cell vehicle feasibility study will be expanded to cover commercial ...
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Topas Advanced Polymers and Polyplastics claim that discrete layers of cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) significantly improve the performance in three- and five-layer packaging film structures made of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE). ...
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Forum Research study has revealed that majority of people in Canada consider plain packaging for cigarettes is an unnecessary waste of government resources. Commissioned by JTI, the new research showed that eight out of ten Canadians ...
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Anheuser-Busch has released a new limited-edition 1933 Repeal Reserve, a Budweiser Amber Lager in celebration of prohibition's repeal. Budweiser 1933 Repeal Reserve is inspired by an amber lager created and brewed by Adolphus Busch that ...
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Polymer giant Covestro is leading a consortium of 14 partners to study how plastics can be produced from flue gas from the steel industry in an efficient and sustainable manner. The investigation anchored by the materials manufacturer ...
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