Avery Dennison Corporation, a global leader in labeling and packaging materials and solutions published its new sustainability report. Avery Dennison's sustainability report for 2011-2012 charts the company's progress and new opportunities. ...
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CSL calls on international shipping organisations to define, defend and promote short sea shipping Tuesday, Sep 24, 2013 MONTREAL, Sept. 20, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - According to a new report commissioned by The CSL Group, the dynamics and ...
Tags: Sea Shipping, Transportation
Suffolk-based Spectra Packaging has introduced an "environmentally friendly biopolymer" to its range of products. According to the company, it can now offer its customers plastic packaging made from ethanol from sugarcane as opposed to ...
Chinese drivers will have to pay more in fuel prices amid the country's drive to reduce air pollution through upgraded fuel quality. In the next two years, the prices of motor gasoline and diesel which meet the national 'fourth-phase' ...
Tags: Pricing Policy, Greener Fuel
France is to use profits from nuclear power plants along with a new carbon tax to help fund growth in renewable power and energy efficiency, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayraut said Saturday. In a speech in Paris marking the end of France's ...
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China said Monday that consumers will need to bear some of the costs of tighter fuel standards, opening the door to higher prices at fuel pumps as the nation balances growing public concern over the environment with worries about inflation. ...
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The propane industry has set its sights on that symbol of American middle-class achievement: the lawn mower. Blame it in part on the natural-gas drilling boom, which has left distributors scrambling to find new ways to increase demand for ...
Tags: Lawn Mowers, Tools, Hardware, propane
Why can't we turn bio-residues into something constructive?? Extensive environmental damage and ever-increasing consumption rate of fossil fuels force the humankind to dig up substitute non-conventional sources of energy. Non-renewable ...
Tags: Bio-Fuel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
American electric drive system technology developer Balqon has signed a Joint Development Agreement with Polar Power to produce series plug in hybrid system for its line of heavy duty electric trucks and buses. As part of the agreement, ...
Tags: Electric Trucks, Trucks, Auto, Transportation
Dirtball Fashion LLC, Hickory, N.C., has introduced a 100-percent recycled cotton/polyester, Made-in-USA men's apparel line. The company notes that recycling pre-consumer cotton reduces labor and land needs for cotton cultivation, and ...
Crosspoint Kinetics, a subsidiary of Cummins Crosspoint, has developed a second-generation parallel-electric hybrid system that can be used in package delivery applications. The Crosspoint Kinetics S3000 hybrid offers improved durability ...
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American government organization Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded $66m for 33 energy projects under two programs to provide sustainable technologies in the US. The first program, Modern Electro/Thermochemical ...
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Established in 1978 by a group of Hampshire farmers, Hampshire Grain is a major supplier to local flour mills, national maltsters and the export trade based in Southampton. Hampshire grain has a storage and process capacity of up to 60,000 ...
Researchers in France have developed a monolithic metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) process for growing indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with a multiple quantum well (MQW) light converter [Benjamin ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Canadian automobile manufacturer Ford Motor is set to invest C$700m ($681.7m) at its Oakville assembly plant to expand its manufacturing capability . This investment is a part of the company's effort to meet the demand in North America ...