Packaging company Huhtamaki Molded Fiber Europe has expanded its Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody (CoC) certification to include its complete operations in Europe. To confirm conformance to the FSC Reclaimed Standard ...
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According to Statistics Canada, contractors took out $6.0 billion worth of building permits in March, down 3.0 percent from February. The March decline followed an 11.3 percent decrease the previous month. Construction intentions in the ...
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Inspired by the Los Angeles street lighting upgrade, where many of the city's 140,000 high-pressure sodium (HPS) street lights were converted to Cree LED luminaires, San Luis Obispo in California has selected LED chip, lamp and lighting ...
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Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania has agreed to supply up to 200 trucks Amsa, a provider of street cleaning and waste management services in Italy. Scania won the contract following a public tender in Milan, Italy. Amsa, ...
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Redline Communications Extends High Speed Wireless to Vehicles, Ships and Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 Redline Communications (www.rdlcom.com) Group Inc. (TSX: RDL), a leading provider of mission-critical wireless ...
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The Government of Saskatchewan has approved new trucking regulations that combine rules between Saskatchewan, Alberta and BC through a New West Partnership. "These changes will enable industry to increase efficiency through reduced ...
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The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), representing over 90% of North America's post-consumer plastic recycling capacity, is encouraging municipal recycling programs to promote 'the Caps On Bottles' to take advantage of ...
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The Mexican state of Chihuahua leads in production of cotton in the country during last year with 652,340 bales, with an average yield of 7.72 bales per hectare, as per the data released by the Ministry of the Rural Development of the ...
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The recycling of rigid plastics excluding bottles rose to nearly 1.02 billion pounds in 2012, an increase of 10 percent over 2011 and triple the amount recycled in 2007 when the industry first began tracking rigid plastics recycling. The ...
Tetra Pak, the world leader in food processing and packaging solutions, today announces that the company made strong progress in 2013 towards its 2020 environmental targets, focusing on developing sustainable products, reducing ...
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We're in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another, while powerful yet relatively cheap computers analyze all that data for ways to improve lives. Toothbrushes tell your mirror to ...
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People have long known there is energy in wastewater; extracting it economically is the problem. Startup Cambrian Innovation claims its technology can do it and a brewery and a winery are now using it to clean their wastewater while ...
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Pump sales in China will reach$8.5 billion in 2014.This is the latest forecast in the McIlvaine Pumps World Market report. Over$3 billion will be spent by municipalities for wastewater and drinking water plants.The continuing population ...
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(Phys.org) —A team of researches with members from several European countries has concluded that it would be far more cost effective for most coastal area economies to employ flood prevention strategies rather than simply pay to clean ...
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Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced that it has signed an agreement to divest the Water Treatment business in Africa to AECI, domiciled in South Africa. The total consideration of the sale amounts to CHF 34 million in ...
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