The Central Asian country of Tajikistan can increase production of organic cotton fibre and also find an industry that could process it, says Simon Ferrigno, International Trade Centre (ITC) international consultant on organic cotton, ...
Tags: Organic Cotton, Textile
Victoria University has a big act to follow. At last year’s IAPRI World Packaging Conference, a record 170 delegates from 24 countries were represented. There were 93 presentations for the oral and poster categories, produced by some ...
Tags: environmental performance of packaging, packaging ecodesign tool
British-Dutch multinational company Unilever has signed a deal to sell its meat snacks business to US beef jerky group Jack Link’s. The sale includes Bifi and Peperami sausage brands as well as a manufacturing unit in Ansbach, ...
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Airweave inc., Japan’s leading manufacturer of premium bedding toppers and pillows, announced that it has become an official supplier to multi-national Olympic delegations, which include the United States (U.S. Olympic Committee), ...
Tags: Airweave, Portable Bedding
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has seen a fast-moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while spewing out a record-breaking jet—the longest of any object in the Milky Way galaxy—of high-energy particles. The pulsar, a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Jet
Green Automotive Company, a state-ofthe- art niche vehicle design, engineering, manufacturing, and sales company, driving innovation in the use of cutting edge zero and low emission technologies, today announced that its UK subsidiary ...
Tags: Electric Cars, E-Care Program
Five out of six cement plants in Switzerland are expected to run out of limestone and marl over the next 10-15 years.As their existing quarries border areas with protected status as landscapes of national significance,they can not be ...
Tags: cement plants, cement, Raw Materials
After a continuous decline in 2013, sales of luxury goods have shown no signs of rebounding in China in the beginning of 2014, after a tightened campaign against corruption, the Beijing Morning Post reported on Feb. 12. Many luxury brands ...
Tags: Luxury Goods, Handbags, Jewels
Why does a mouse's heart beat about the same number of times in its lifetime as an elephant's, although the mouse lives about a year, while an elephant sees 70 winters come and go? Why do small plants and animals mature faster than large ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
A research consortium being coordinated at Saarland University is developing a novel sensor system for monitoring airborne contaminants that will provide high-quality indoor air without the energy losses typically associated with ...
Tags: Health&Medicine
Australia's busiest airport has today called on tenders for its retail duty free operations, which are currently provided by Nuance Australia. These duty free outlets measure 7,600 square metres of space across six outlets and include ...
Tags: retailer
Pump Solutions Group is pleased to announce that Ueli Thuerig, who was previously named President of PSG Europe in June 2013, has been named to the newly created position of President of PSG EMEA. In his new role, Thuerig will assume all ...
Tags: pump, internal gear pump, pelletizing system technologies
In addition to other European countries, Azelis can now also offer products in Evonik's Crosslinkers business line to customers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) for coatings, inks and other applications. This new co-operation ...
Tags: coatings
ABB says that it is receiving $2.1m of the $70m grant over five years from the Advanced Manufacturing Office within the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) that is funding the new Next ...
Tags: ABB, Power Electronics
Hiwin Technologies Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Eric Chuo announced at the company's Jan. 17 yearend banquet that the manufacturer of ballscrews will see sales of intelligent robots more than double this year over 2013 ...
Tags: ballscrews, robotic, precision-machinery, automation system