As You Sow, a shareholder advocacy organization, has asked Mondelēz International to phase out unrecyclable packaging from its products and assess the environmental and operational risks associated with it. The move is a part of As ...
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, international mining group Rio Tinto and Australian solar energy firm Ingenero have announced an agreement for the development of the Weipa ...
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EPA and New Hampshire Dept. of Environmental Services will hold a Public Informational Meeting at Berlin City Hall in Berlin, N.H. on May 29. The meeting, which is open to all, will give community residents an update on environmental site ...
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GNP’s natural chicken brand Gold'n Plump has added two new flavors to its existing Original flavor of Chicken Patties lineup. The new flavors, which include Bacon & Cheddar and Mushroom & Swiss, are made by using chicken thighs. ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy's CALiPER program has released Report 21.1, which is part of a series of investigations on linear LED lamps. Report 21.1 focuses on the performance of 31 types of linear LED lamps operated in a typical 2x4 ...
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BASF has doubled capacity of its non-phthalate plasticizer Hexamoll DINCH from 100,000 metric tons to 200,000 metric tons per year at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. With a second Hexamoll DINCH plant BASF will satisfy growing customer ...
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China's latest five-year plan promises to shift the economy from its dependence on exports toward domestic consumption as an engine of growth. The key to achieving this will be for the nation to enhance the ability of its economy to ...
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Researchers based in USA and South Korea have developed a gate stack for III-V quantum well metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (QW MOSFETs) based on a bilayer dielectric of beryllium oxide (BeO) and hafnium dioxide (HfO2) ...
Tags: InGaAs MOSFETs QW MOSFETs InGaAs ALD, Electrical, Electronics
If you're not ready for a higher cattle market for a while, you better settle in and get ready for it, because it's going to continue for "multiple years" into the future, one expert says. Record beef prices at the consumer meat case ...
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BASF has doubled capacity of its non-phthalate plasticizer Hexamoll® DINCH® from 100,000 metric tons to 200,000 metric tons per year at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. With a second Hexamoll DINCH plant BASF will satisfy growing ...
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element14 has announced the addition of four new polymer capacitors from Panasonic to its range. The SP-Cap, POSCAP, OS-CON and Polymer Hybrid capacitors provide high efficiency and low ESRLow Equivalent Series ResistanceLow Equivalent ...
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Avery Dennison Foundation announced a $200,000 grant to the Rainforest Alliance to foster best practices in forestry management, create jobs and increase access to sustainably-managed forest products. Workers in Brus Laguna, Honduras ...
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Liquor retailing is growing, and sheltered from supermarket price wars Much has been reported on the battle for consumers' hearts, minds and money by Australia's two biggest supermarket groups, and liquor retailing may yet play a key role ...
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An explosion Wednesday at Williams' 1.5-Bcf/d Opal Processing Plant in Wyoming was continuing to significantly cut into Rockies flows Thursday and helped lift Western spot gas and forwards prices. Prior to the incident, Opal plant ...
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EPA Region 7 is announcing nine new collegiate members of EPA's Food Recovery Challenge (FRC), a national initiative aimed at encouraging businesses, organizations and institutions to actively participate in food waste prevention, surplus ...
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