A new wool and rice straw blended upholstery fabric, which has been developed by a Wellington company, goes into commercial production next year with the potential to create significant demand for New Zealand crossbred wool, while helping ...
Tags: Formary, upholstery fabric, crossbred wool
Grundfos is partner in a development project, which, in time, can lead to recycling of the scarce and essential resource, phosphorus. Lack of phosphorus might turn out to be one of the largest challenges of the future. As a nutrient, it ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Waste Water Processing Machinery
What are the 50 greatest inventions since the wheel? If you ballpark the wheel's innovation at 6,000 B.C., then what are the most significant discoveries that follow? A reasonable list should be agriculture-heavy, and in its "50 Greatest ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
Tags: imagining, post-antibiotics, future
Engineers from Bosch Rexroth said “Open Core Engineering”, a software which connects automated machinery and IT, is “generation 4.0” in food production technology. The tool, accessible from iPhones, Google Androids ...
Tags: VIDEO, Bosch, debut, phone, trigger, software, Europack
HJ Heinz, a US-based food manufacturer, plans a $28m expansion project at its frozen food production facility in Masillon, Ohio, which would add 249 jobs. The project comes on the heels of the company's announcement last week to close ...
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While Digital Lumens focused its SIL Europe presentation on adaptive controls as expected, it was surprising to hear both Dialight and Xicato make lighting networks and controls a central theme of their Investor Forum presentations. ...
Tags: SSL controls, Strategies in Light Europe, Investor Forum
I keep hearing, even among some in the alternative media, that the overpopulation of humans on our planet is a myth because "all the people in the world could fit in the state of Texas." Sure they can, but then where would they pee? ...
Tags: overpopulation, MYTH
Chicken and oc may seem like an obvious pairing to culinary enthusiasts, but at least one Pennsylvania farm is demonstrating its extraordinary health benefits in food production as well. For three years or so, chickens at Bell & Evans have ...
Tags: chicken, farmer, oregano oil, cinnamon, antibiotics
As China continues to rise as the new Asian powerhouse, there has been a steady stream of reports which have detailed the country's staggering lack of standards when it comes to producing manufactured goods, so it was only mildly shocking ...
Tags: pharmaceutical, manufacturer, gutter oil, antibiotics
More and more consumers and corporations are touting the benefits of "local" foods, often described as "sustainable," "healthy," or "natural." According to the trade publication, Sustainable Food News, "local" as a marketing claim, has ...
Tags: local food, organic food, farming
Poultry processors struggling to screen accurately for Sulphonamide antibiotics could improve their quality control by testing for each specific compound. Research undertaken by leading test manufacturer Randox Food Diagnostics has ...
Tags: Food Processors, Specific Tests
What happens if US loses California food production? Cotton growers huddle to glean variety info for 2014 Is the wine shortage a false alarm? One of the fascinating and little-promoted aspects of agriculture is the amount of natural ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Nestlé has inaugurated a new CHF73m ($80.7m) manufacturing facility in Vyazniki, Vladimir, Russia, to produce and distribute Maggi products across the nation and other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. With ...
Tags: Maggi Production, Nestle
Esker, a worldwide leader in document process automation solutions, announced today that it has reached an agreement with a leading food production company. The U.S. division of the multinational manufacturer has chosen Esker's ...
Tags: Esker, food production