Michelin announced today a new breakdown service that covers more than just tires. ONCall 2.0 is an expansion of the company's previous roadside service program. Customers can now call for help if they've suffered mechanical breakdowns. ...
Tags: Michelin, tyre, tire, Auto Parts
Lextar Electronics Corp. launches a new omni-directional LED light tube featuring ultra high efficiency of 200 lumens per watt, distributing 360 degree of lighting area. This ultra efficient light tube, incorporating in-house flip chip, ...
Global snack manufacturer, Mondelez International, has chosen MetricStream to provide a comprehensive solution for quality audit and material traceability management. Deployed and managed from their audit headquarters in Munich, Germany, ...
Tags: Mondelez International, Material Traceability Management
UK-based rigid plastics packaging manufacturer RPC Group has selected clear polypropylene (PP) for sustainable packaging application for some of its products. The company uses PP for majority of its thermoformed, blow molded and thin ...
Tags: rigid plastics, Polypropylene
Cotton Australia and Cotton Incorporated announced a joint program to raise awareness of the responsible growing practices among cotton producers in Australia and the United States. Called Cotton LEADS, the program is aimed at textile ...
Tags: Cotton Initiative, Textile
Rather than automobiles, it is the construction industry that is more open to using innovative glass products, Saint-Gobain Glass India has found. So much so, the Indian subsidiary of the French multinational has started pitching some of ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
Beyond Meat, a leading developer of plant-based products that replicate the texture and taste of meat, today offered a facility transparency challenge to large-scale poultry processors, in light of the recent disclosure about salmonella in ...
Tags: Beyond Meat, Poultry Producers
An international research group has reviewed the state of the art of life cycle assessment (LCA) in the context of wastewater treatment (WWT). They report that methodologies need to be updated to account for future challenges in the water ...
CME Group, the Chicago-based derivatives exchange, plans to launch an aluminum contract that will compete with the London Metal Exchange's product. CME, the world's largest futures exchange, is responding to a "key need to execute with ...
Tags: steel, Construction
Biodiesel has faced a backlash in recent years, as critics charge the industry with razing land and pushing up food costs. But as its competitors struggle, one Hong Kong-based company is moving ahead with a US$165 million plant that turns ...
Tags: Biodiesel Plant, Energy
Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University has developed a method to improve the performance of zinc oxide (ZnO) transparent conductive oxide (TCO) as an electrode for short-wavelength nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) ...
Tags: zinc oxide, LEDs
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has informed all its members that with immediate effect, Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) staff seeking access to garment factories for monitoring visits should be accompanied by ...
Tags: BFC Monitoring, Apparel
US-based community-focused health insurer MVP Health Care (MVP) has decided to implement PaySpan's platform to automate reimbursements for providers and members across New York, Vermont and New Hampshire. The payment tool will streamline ...
Tags: Health Care, Automate Payments
According to a new report published by Transparency Market Research "Glass Packaging Market for Food and Beverage, Pharmaceuticals, Beer and Other Alcoholic Beverages - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, ...
Tags: Glass Packaging, Construction, Glass
GoGreen NYC's ‘The Future of Fashion’ session will be held on September 26 at the Cuny Graduate Centre. It will explore what's happening on the frontiers of a global movement to design, source, and manufacture responsible ...