Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA, which manufactures multi-junction solar cells and panels for concentrated photovoltaic and spacecraft power systems, says it is the first company to produce 4 million gallium arsenide ...
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FDA finalises menu and vending machine calorie labeling rules The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalised two rules requiring that calorie information be listed on menus and menu boards in chain restaurants, similar retail ...
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Profitability for LED products is shrinking due to continual price drops along with increasing competition, and more than 100 relatively small China-based LED packaging service providers will be forced out of the market in 2014 and the ...
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Diversified packaging company Sonoco has developed plant-based plastic bottles for Ecover's new home care line. Ecover has launched its popular green brand in North America after joining Method in 2012. The new look is the celebration ...
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing an affordable and environment-friendly alternative for expanded polystyrene (EPS) from PLA bioplastic, which is derived from organic sources. This polystyrene alternative can be ...
The China & Asia textile forum and China Green textile summit will be held on February 2-3, 2015, at the Beijing Marriott Hotel Northeast, China. The events are co-hosted by ECV International, a leading consulting firm in China, and ...
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Driven by a large fall in the area planted to cotton, the production of white gold in Australia is forecast to fall by almost half in 2014-15, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES). ...
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Tukatech, US-based leading provider of fashion technology solutions has launched a cloud-based virtual 3D garment development solution, TUKA3D, to improve the digital communication in the field of development and approvals of fabric samples ...
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Guangdong Jinming Machinery and Xi’an Jiaotong University have signed a contract of development for a blown film line control system based on specialised chips. The partnership will see the two parties develop a highly ...
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Besides a 12 per cent fall in acreage, cotton output is expected to plunge 18 per cent in the Southern hemisphere, which covers countries like Brazil, Australia and Southern & Eastern Africa. According to ICAC’s latest report, ...
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Serbia and Macedonia should work jointly to promote the European textile sector, speakers concluded during meetings organized by the Agency for Foreign Investments and Export Promotion of the Republic of Macedonia, together with the Serbian ...
Israeli producer of specialised nylon 6.6 yarn, Nilit says fabric made from its Innergy yarn has been found to have greater radiation absorption then fabric made from conventional yarns. According to Nilit, the study proved that when ...
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Facebook’s has relaunched the standalone Slingshot media messaging app it hopes will ensnare some of the Snapchat crowd and bring them back underneath the company’s sizeable social umbrella. The firm began working on a new ...
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Everything we know about the iPad Pro Chatter of a potential iPad Pro release began way back in April 2013, albeit under the guise of an iPad/Macbook-hybrid patent filing. While such a lovechild is unlikely to land, it could be evidence ...
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The Nexus 6 has launched in the UK, and now giffgaff has become the latest network provider to offer the Android Lollipop loving device. With the 6-inch handset having been released through O2 earlier today, December 4, giffgaff has now ...
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