John Lewis publishes its five-week trading update, revealing that the retailer saw both bricks and clicks break records. For the five weeks to 28 December 2013, total sales were £734m, 7.2 per cent up compared with last year, 6.9 ...
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The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published ANSI_ANSLG C78.901-2013 American National Standard for Electric Lamps—Single-Based Fluorescent Lamps—Dimensional and Electrical Characteristics. ANSI_ANSLG ...
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Last week, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the U.K. published its Forward Evidence Plan for 2014, outlining priorities for the coming year. The plan is meant to draw the attention of potential research funders and inform stakeholders. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Food Safety
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the findings of a new study utilizing a highly accelerated life-test method (called the ammer test intended to produce failures in SSL luminaires in a reasonable test period, with the goal ...
The European Commission has published a report on the possibility to extend mandatory origin labeling for all meat used as an ingredient. The report, based on an external study completed in July 2013, noted the feasibility of launching ...
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Philips Lighting blogger Monique Cousineau publishes an interesting Christmas lights trivia article on the lighting giant’s website. How many questions can you get right? Below is the full blog entry: Christmas light decorations. ...
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Solvay published quarterly unaudited restated financial information for the first nine months of 2013 and the full year 2012 taking into account European Chlorovinyls’ discontinued operations. On May 7th, 2013 Solvay and Ineos ...
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According to the latest market forecast, the actual land used for sourcing renewable feedstock for bioplastics will amount only to approximately 0.02% of the global agricultural area. This is the conclusion of the latest market forecast ...
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OPEC crude production continued its downward trend in November as a new series of output disruptions took hold in Libya and lower volumes from other member countries outpaced an increase of 192,000 b/d in Iraq, monthly estimates from the ...
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The SVHC Roadmap 2020 focuses on finding new potentially relevant substances of very high concern (SVHC) with CMR, sensitising, PBT/vPvB and/or endocrine disrupting properties. The best regulatory risk management option should then be ...
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API Director of Standards David Miller announced today the publication of a new oil and natural gas industry bulletin for well construction interface, the latest of several standards developed or strengthened as a result of post-Macondo ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy's CALiPER program has released a Snapshot Report on LED A lamps, which utilizes the LED Lighting Facts program's extensive product database to help industry stakeholders understand the current state and ...
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published NEMA BL 3-2013 Dimming Ballast Energy Performance. This standard provides a methodology for applying existing test methods for program start ballasts to fluorescent dimming ...
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The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published NEMA BL 3-2013 Dimming Ballast Energy Performance. This standard provides a methodology for applying existing test methods for program start ballasts to fluorescent dimming ...
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), with between 10 to 249 persons employed, are a driver of the European economy, creating jobs and contributing to economic growth. In 2011, of the 22 million enterprises in the EU28’s ...
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