Early in 2013, a research group led by Biome Bioplastics was awarded a grant by the UK's innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to investigate pulp and paper by-product, lignin, as a new source of organic chemicals for ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Bioplastic bag
Cargill has launched a soybean oil made from identity-preserved (IdP), conventionally-bred (non-GM) soybeans. The oil is refined in a process certified by SGS, in Cargill's Des Moines, Iowa plant. Cargill food ingredients commercial ...
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In a development that sounds as if it was lifted from the storyline of a vampire melodrama, a British research consortium has announced that it is well on its way to producing human blood on a scale that makes transfusions into real people ...
A team of MIT researchers has used a novel material that's just a few atoms thick to create devices that can harness or emit light. This proof-of-concept could lead to ultrathin, lightweight, and flexible photovoltaic cells, light emitting ...
Tags: light emitting diodes, tungsten diselenide, new material
The Bosch Group has laid the foundation stone for its new plant in Russia: from 2015, Bosch automotive technology will also be rolling off the assembly line in Samara. The site itself covers a total surface area of some 200,000 square ...
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In studying a material that prevents marine life from sticking to the bottom of ships, researchers led by chemist Joseph DeSimone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a surprising replacement for the only ...
Tags: UNC, PFPE, Ion Battery, team
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has loaned Austrian textile company Lezning AG €100 million to help finance research and development (R&D) activities and investment in Tencel fibre production. Lenzing, which specializes in making ...
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The Mint of Finland has chosen Beneq's patented nSILVER invisible protective coating to prevent tarnishing of its special numbered series of EUR 20 coins to honor Tove Jansson, the Finnish creator of the Moomin books for children. The ...
Tags: Protective Coating, Jansson coin
TOKYO, Jan 29, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) --- JSR Corporation is pleased to announce that JM Energy Corporation, a 100% JSR subsidiary focusing on lithium ion capacitors technology (LICLithium Ion Capacitor.), has decided to expand its existing ...
Tags: Lithium Ion, JM Energy
Campaign hopes to raise $35,000 to make 'Woody' widely and economically available to all' The makers of My Wooden Horse, a traditional wooden push along toy, have taken to Kickstarter in the hope of bringing it to shelves. The product, ...
Tags: Wooden Horse, Toys
It wasn’t that long ago that low-E glass was considered exotic, an added expense that was at times hard to justify. But low-E glass went on to become commonplace within the glass industry, a product so usual that there’s little ...
Tags: Smart Glass, Low-E Glass
Both partners will be working on further developing solutions for use in efficient organic light-emitting diode(OLEDs)production,aiming to jointly exploit the opportunities offered by the future market for OLED technologies. Within the ...
Netherlands-based Micreos has received generally recognized as safe (GRAS) food processing aid against Salmonella status for its SALMONELEX from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). ...
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Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, announced that together with DONG Energy (Denmark) it has demonstrated the combined fermentation of C6 and C5 sugars from wheat straw on an industrial scale. The combined ...
The dynamic glass market sits on the precipice of major growth, with a ready market and proven technology. However, demand for the advanced glass product remains low, View Inc. CEO Rao Mulpuri explained during a Dec. 11 Forbes profile. The ...
Tags: Dynamic Glass, Glass, Construction, Decoration