This Special Issue of Desalination brings together 15 papers on radioactive decontamination of water, including individual studies as well as comprehensive reviews of the latest technology developments in this field. This Special Issue on ...
Tags: Processing Machinery, water
Minnetonka, Minn.-based NatureWorks LLC — developer of Ingeo? lactides and biopolymers derived from 100-percent annually renewable resources including agricultural feedstocks — and Menlo Park, Calif.-based Calysta Energy Inc. ...
Tags: Textile
Biopac has announced its role in ECLIPSE, an international consortium, which has bagged a €5m funding in a bid to develop new packaging using natural materials. According to the UK-based developer and supplier of packaging and ...
Tags: Biopac, Packaging Project
In a first for the carton packaging industry, Tetra Pak announced on June 26 that it plans to sign an agreement with Braskem, the largest thermoplastic resins producer in the Americas, for the supply of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) made ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, carton packaging industry, carton packaging
Biopolymers supplier NatureWorks has named PTT Polymer Marketing (PTTPM) as its Ingeo distributor in Thailand and Vietnam. PTTPM, the marketing arm of PTT Global Chemical, will bring Ingeo to its broad base of thermoformers, film ...
Tags: PTT Polymer, Polymer Marketing
Over the last decade, nanotechnology has found its way into almost all sectors. Nanolayers are finding applications in wind turbines to improve the aerodynamics and prevent surface icing. Moreover, microelectronics these days are largely ...
Tags: Techtextil, Textile
Chemical Marketing and Economics (CM&E), the business and investment group of the American Chemical Society’s New York Section (ACS NY), has awarded Marcelo Odebrecht, president and CEO of Odebrecht S.A., has been honored with the ...
Tags: CM&E Group, Construction
This Canadian study investigates a recently identified group of disinfection by-products, halo-benzoquinones, including formation and treatment in bench-scale coagulation of three source waters. Halo-benzoquinones (HBQs) are a recently ...
Tags: Halo-Benzoquinone, bench-scale coagulation, source waters
Bioscience company Metabolix has announced a distribution agreement with the Tianjin GreenBio Materials in China. According to the agreement terms, GreenBio's SoGreen heat shrink film will be distributed by Metabolix in Europe, which will ...
I may be barking up, or rather hugging, the wrong tree but I wouldn’t be surprised were the bioplastics industry to be looking to sever its no longer so comfortable links with the environmentalist lobby. Having fuelled the booster ...
NatureWorks, the world's leading supplier of biopolymers, with Ingeo fibers and plastics made from plants, not oil, announced today that the company has located its first Asia Pacific (A/P) regional headquarters in Bangkok and has expanded ...
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Biopolymers supplier NatureWorks has announced the location of its first Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Bangkok. NatureWorks president and CEO Marc Verbruggen said in many parts of Asia, especially China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, ...
Following on from a busy 2012 in which two new showrooms were opened (first Helsinki, then Madrid) and many events - involving top level international partnerships - were organized which allowed us to reach new heights, C.L.A.S.S. ...
Tags: C.L.A.S.S., Eco-Library, Munich Fabric Start
New data from Malvern Instruments demonstrate how rheological methods can be used to investigate the speed at which biopolymers, such as polylactic acid (PLA), whose low environmental impact is a defining feature, will biodegrade and ...
Tags: Malvern Instruments, rheological methods, PLA, polymer biodegradability
This was the title of the paper given to approximately 280 attendees at the third Cooperation Forum Biopolymers in Straubing by Dr. Haio Harms, CEO of Kelheim Fibres GmbH. The paper illustrated impressively the versatility of viscose fibres ...