I joined GreenBlue last fall as the new executive director and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) director. Now that a year has passed, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some key industry milestones in 2013 and talk ...
Bostik has promoted Scott Banda to director of marketing for its Consumer and Construction Business Unit. In this new role, he will direct the product management, marketing communication and strategic partnership efforts for the business ...
Tags: Bostick, Scott Banda, promotion, appointment
Since 2010 the government began reducing corporation tax in stages, falling from 28% to 23%. This will be cut to 21% from April 2014 and will reach 20% in 2015. The small profits rate has also been cut to 20%. While the government ...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reached an interim agreement that will shield public stockpiling programs for food security in developing countries from the usual limitations on governments buying food from domestic farmers at ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
ABS Consulting recently completed design review services for an approval in principle of the design of Hyundai Heavy Industries' (HHI) Modular Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Storage Tanks. ABS Consulting reviewed the system design for HHI's ...
Tags: ABS Consulting, Hyundai Heavy Industries, design review, LNG, storage
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell maker Neo Solar Power and solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers Green Energy Technology (GET), Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) and Gigastorage saw November consolidated revenues ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Crystalline Silicon
Hershey India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hershey, is set to introduce Jolly Rancher, a North American sweets brand, in India. The launch is part of Hershey's global growth vision to achieve $10bn in annual revenue by 2017. With this ...
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A new wool and rice straw blended upholstery fabric, which has been developed by a Wellington company, goes into commercial production next year with the potential to create significant demand for New Zealand crossbred wool, while helping ...
Tags: Formary, upholstery fabric, crossbred wool
As part of an AiF research project (AiF no. N 17407), scientists from the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim (Germany) have, for the first time, developed a textile finishing with both an antiviral and an antibacterial function. ...
Tags: Textile Finishing
Sherwin-Williams announces MIL-PRF-22750G Type III, Grade A Seafoam Green High Solids Epoxy, which meets the military specification for direct-to-metal (DTM) applications. The new product is one of the first DTM high solids epoxies to earn ...
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) co-hosted with the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Automotive Industry Committee (CCPIT-Auto) a major one day conference on ...
China's hunger for natural gas has pushed its shipbuilding and energy industries to build more liquefied natural gas carriers and import terminals, to give the nation an edge over other countries. "China will need more than 35 LNG ...
Tags: Energy Industries, LNG
If you're going to spend the necessary money in making sure the process of constructing a new building is environmentally-friendly, you might as well get the most for your dollar by using the Green Globes ratings system. That was the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Building
"The glass component of recycling is long overdue," says City Councilor Miguel Silva, chairman of the South Central Solid Waste Authority (SCSWA) board. "This will be a community effort and it will be up to the community to make it a ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Glass Recycling, Glass
The just-concluded 18th Congress of Chinese Communist Party explicitly called for implementation of "Biological Civilization" strategy. The move restored confidence into offshore wind power and green energy industry which are still in ...