Anderson Hardwood Flooring's newest line, the Urban Loft line, is a wire-brushed hickory floor that presents a striking appearance with an impressively soft-to-the-touch textured surface. The Urban Loft comes in four colors – ...
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Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is looking for "the next wave of innovative cleantech entrepreneurs" through its SD Tech Fund, which is open for applications starting now, August 28, through to October 16, 2013. The ...
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San Jose, California City Council is set to restrict the use of polystyrene foam packaging for serving food. The ordinance would ban the use of such packaging by restaurants and other local foodservice operators. The actions of the City ...
Darling International has completed the acquisition of Terra Renewal Services, a leading provider of environmental services focused on the collection, hauling, reprocessing, and recycling of waste cooking oil, for $120m in cash. Terra ...
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The news comes as Wrap reported the Home Improvement Sector Commitment (HISC) ?a voluntary agreement set up by Wrap] has met its original targets of reducing both waste to landfill and packaging in the DIY sector. Wrap shows that ...
Anglo–Dutch multinational consumer goods company Unilever has opened a EUR95m ice cream facility in Konya, Turkey. The Konya factory will produce leading brands such as Cornetto, Max and Twister and will initially employ 300 people. ...
Eco-friendly, made-in-the-U.S.A. apparel brand Dirtball will launch “The Green Jean”. The Green Jean is made from cotton and recycled water bottles which have been repurposed to create high-quality cotton/polyester denim. Each ...
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The California Product Stewardship Council has awarded Armstrong Commercial Flooring with the 2013 Infinity Award, in recognition for the company's outstanding Vinyl Composition Tile (VCT) Flooring Recycling Program. The award was presented ...
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Sales of scrubbers, absorbers, biofliters, and adsorbers will exceed $6.8 billion in 2014. This is the latest prediction in the McIlvaine report, Scrubber/Adsorber/Biofilter World Markets. Absorbers will lead the way with revenues of ...
Air conditioning is a most essential part of every house hold during summers. People use these systems to improve the quality of indoor air and maintain the room temperature. The use of these systems depends on the climatic conditions and ...
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Despite a desire to create open and flexible networks, network managers shouldn’t be fooled into thinking that the best way to achieve this is through building an open-source network from scratch, according to Den Sullivan, Head of ...
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The US Department of Energy has published a new report that examines lifetime and reliability of SSL products and makes it clear that current standards fall short of providing an accepted way of defining system life. The solid-state ...
Canada-based Maple Leaf Foods has entered into an agreement to sell Rothsay, its rendering and biodiesel business, to Darling International of Irving, Texas, for C645m ($614.11m). This move is a part of the Maple Leaf Foods' plan to focus ...
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Temple has expanded its recycling program to enable members of the university community to recycle mixed plastics, numbers one to seven. Newly accepted items will include yogurt cups, clamshell containers, straws, iced coffee beverage ...
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The WTO lawsuit is expected to reach a verdict at the end of this year. Members of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths (CSRE) and Association of Rare Earth Industry (ACREI) have expressed that China has a high chance of losing the lawsuit ...
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