According to a report Tuesday from the Lake Carriers' Association, for the second month in a row, shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes reached their highest level in six years.? The 7,242,492 tons loaded in August are the most since ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral
An Italian professor has created an artificial skylight that simulates a sunny blue sky. Lighting is the first UK magazine to speak to him about his astonishing invention If you have the opportunity in the next few weeks, make an ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Sky Light
Diode laser maker DILAS of Mainz, Germany has launched a higher-power fiber-coupled diode laser system for materials processing applications with output power of 2.5kW at 980nm. The SF2500/10 fiber-coupled system is based on ...
Tags: DILAS Diode laser, Electrical, Electronics
Loftware Enterprise labeling solutions, located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has won the prestigious Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) Case Study Competition 2014 for laser printing, organized by the Pennsylvania-based ...
Tags: Apparel, Label Printing
UK-based polythene bag manufacturer Duo UK will produce bags using a thermoplastic resin which is made entirely from sugarcane ethanol for international polymer distribution company Resin Trade. The mailing bags called Green PE have been ...
Tags: Mailing Bags, Eco-Friendly Bags
Croatia-based specialist packaging producers EcoCortec has created marine biodegradable film products to help tackle the plastic packaging waste polluting the oceans across the world. Biobased polymer technology has been used to create ...
Tags: Biodegradable Film, Bags, Packaging
The GMC Canyon entered a new generation back in 2012, but only for the rest of the world as a new model year hasn't appeared in the U.S. for a few years. The new generation small pickup truck has been given a release date of fall 2014, and ...
Sponsored by Turkishceramics, vPPR Architects have designed a spectacular pavilion from bubble foam for the Kitchen and Bathroom Hub 2014. Focusing on the theme of cleanliness, the use of white lather references luxurious bubble baths and ...
Tags: Bathroom Hub, Construction, Decoration
Smallholder cotton farmers in the developing world, where over 100 million smallholder farmers are responsible for 90 percent of the world’s cotton production, urgently need education and support in basic agricultural techniques to ...
Tags: cotton, agricultural techniques
Zuru has signed a global exclusive deal with Kickstarter hit Bunch O Balloons and will launch the product in spring 2015. The Kickstarter campaign raised close to $1 million dollars and the concept 'takes water balloon fights to the next ...
Tags: Zuru, Bunch O Balloons, Toys
A ‘Research and Education’ zone will feature the world’s first liquid ammonia processing technology for knitted fabrics at Interstoff Asia Essential – Autumn 2014, set to return to the Hong Kong Convention and ...
Tags: Liquid Ammonia Fabric, Interstoff
Lotte Liqor’s first beer, Kloud, burst onto the market with aplomb. “We expect to bring a change in the history of Korea’s beer industry, often reputed as ‘boring,’ with this kind of real beer,” the ...
Tags: Beer Market, Krones, Packaging
Truckers are making more frequent trips to U.S. coal-burning power plants because of a U.S.-wide rail bottleneck situation which has forced some of the plants to turn to trucks and barges for coal transportation. “We have been ...
Tags: Truckers, Coal-Transport Business
The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, a federally recognized Native American tribe located in northeastern Nebraska, and the Tribe’s Utilities Commission have reached a settlement with the United States to improve the Tribe’s drinking ...
Tags: EPA, certification