The statement comes after the pulp and paper giant issued an announcement earlier this year (February) that it would stop using timber from Indonesia’s natural forests and only use trees from plantations. The firm has been regularly ...
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The 2013 Esquel Sustainability Symposium - Be Green and Innovative will be held from Monday, August 12 to Wednesday, August 14 in Gaoming, Guangdong, China. China has witnessed dramatic changes in the past three decades. The country is no ...
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AATCC’s Chemical Applications Interest Group is sponsoring a symposium October 16 and 17, 2013, titled Textile Wet Processing: The Way Forward. The symposium will be held at the Textile Technology Center in Belmont, N.C., USA, and ...
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The Foodservice Packaging Institute, Inc. (FPI) and QSR magazine announced the kick-off of the 2013 Foodservice Packaging Awards competition to honor industry innovation. This year's contest will mark the seventh time the trade association ...
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Rexam will produce new 330ml sleek aluminum can for India-based Silver Ice Beverages' RIO-Fusion Drinks, fruit flavored carbonated beverage. Rexam India is producing the can at its Taloja plant, where a new aluminum line was opened in ...
Global packaging company Sonoco has summarized sustainability progress in its latest 2012-2013 corporate responsibility report. Sonoco president and CEO Jack Sanders said the company is developing a new $75m biomass cogeneration system at ...
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The Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the global advocate for the automation industry, announced today that A3's president Jeff Burnstein has been selected to speak at the Congressional Robotics Caucus Briefing titled "Harnessing ...
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Today, more moms are taking steps toward a more eco-friendly lifestyle and are instilling those practices in their children. These "EcoAware Moms" strongly believe in leaving an eco-conscious legacy for their children to carry on. ...
The company says it pushes the boundaries of conventional packaging "by doing the difficult".? They firmly believe that packaging can be both stunning and environmentally friendly. "Packaging Innovations has been both successful and ...
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Certification systems for verifying the sources of biobased raw materials and their content in finished products are already operating in the agriculture and food sectors in Europe. Now they are beginning to be introduced into the ...
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Environmental regulations, rising consumer awareness regarding health and the environment, and focus on sustainability have driven the Asia-Pacific water-based coatings market. Higher domestic consumption and investments in infrastructure ...
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Packaging and disposables supplier Tri-Star Packaging is set to launch its range of eco-friendly food-to-go packaging and disposable tableware at Lunch! exhibition 2013 taking place at London’s Business Design Centre from 26-27 ...
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The Swiss yarn manufacturer Hermann Bühler AG is the very first company worldwide to receive a certificate for sustainable textile production in line with the certification system “Sustainable Textile Production (STeP) by ...
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A small increase in the number of carrier bags being used by supermarket shoppers across the UK reflects changing shopping trends and shouldn’t detract from areas where excellent progress has been made, the British Retail Consortium ...
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Fiber-based packaging supplier Evergreen Packaging has entered into an intellectual property license agreement with Smart Planet Technologies to explore the development of cupstock products using EarthCoating technology. EarthCoating ...