Engineered specifically to eliminate the void created by using standard corrugated boxes to pack products destined for individual consumers, Packsize International’s (Booth 2344) compact iQ FUSION corrugated converting machine ...
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USAgain, a for-profit textile recycling company, announced that it diverted nearly 58 million pounds of unwanted clothing and shoes last year that would have otherwise been thrown into the trash and ultimately buried in landfills. In ...
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Shanghai,China–Future Lighting Solutions,along with Creative Technology Hong Kong Limited,completed the successful design of new multi-functional emergency flashlights using LUXEON LEDs,for Vortex. The lights,utilizing LUXEON Rebel ...
When the blades started spinning on SC Johnson's two new wind turbines, the company's Waxdale manufacturing facility began to further minimize its dependence on fossil fuels. The addition of the turbines means that products made and ...
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It goes without saying that China has proven it is a true heavyweight global contender. The herculean growth achieved by China over the past two decades is unprecedented in the annals of human history. China has overtaken Japan to become ...
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European regulations aimed specifically at limiting emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from coatings have been mainly confined to decorative paints and the manufacture of the coatings themselves. The last piece of major ...
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US-based Clearly Clean Products has introduced its new recyclable modified atmosphere package (MAP) tray for meat, poultry, entrées and kebobs. Simple for the processors to seal and easy for consumers to use, the FDA-compliant tray ...
Green data centres may have gone out of fashion as a topic of conversation, but rising energy costs, increasing demand for computing power, environmental concerns, and economic pressures are continuing to drive the market. The data centre ...
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BWA Water Additives has been a major supplier of water treatment additives for almost 40 years. The company’s antiscalant additives are now playing a vital role in keeping reverse osmosis systems working efficiently in desalination ...
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Tokyo-based Solar Frontier K.K. (a subsidiary of Japanese energy business Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.) – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – says that its ...
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ASTM International has launched a new initiative as a Program Operator for Product Category Rules(PCRs)and Environmental Product Declarations(EPDs),which it says will be used to better track the environmental impact of products.According to ...
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ASTM International announced its new initiative as a program operator for Product Category Rules and Environmental Product Declarations.The goal of the program is to assist product manufacturers in developing PCRs and verifying EPDs.Also ...
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European directive ErP(Energy related Products-2009/125/EC)defines a general legislative framework concerning the consumptions of"devices that consume energy"to which all manufacturers must conform. Thus manufacturers will have to ...
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Green office supplies (my Hub page on the topic) are the topic of the day on this Earth Day. I’m not a huge fan of multi-billion dollar government-run programs to subsidize things or thrust such burdens on us as consumers or business ...
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International Flavors & Fragrances has opened a plant in Singapore that the US firm hopes will help it tap into growing demand in Asia. The company opened the liquid flavours and fragrances facility in Jurong in Singapore yesterday (17 ...
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