Italy is all set become the second European country after France to pass a law to reduce food waste by encouraging supermarkets to donate unsold food to charities. Food waste which costs the Italian economy €12bn (£9.4bn) ...
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Kona Brewery has broken ground on a new $20m facility in Hawaii near its current facility. Located on 2.6 acres leased from the Queen Liliuokalani Trust, will produce 100,000 barrels annually once it becomes operational. The ...
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Tekscan announce the release of the new Nip Pressure Alignment Tool (NPAT). This tool is used to capture nip footprints and relative pressure distribution between nip rollers in the printing, paper, and packaging industries. This tool ...
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Sebastian Herkner’s O-Light at the Light + Building Fair Buschfeld presented the O-Light for the first time at the Light + Building Fair 2016. Designed by Sebastian Herkner, O-Light is the world’s first OLED light (30 cm ...
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Future food labelling and product safety laws could be scrapped if legal pressure from multinational companies increases as a result of clauses within the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. Consumer advocacy group Choice has ...
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Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), unveiled new capabilities connecting to Amazon’s Alexa. Using the prompt, “Alexa, ask Fitbit how I’m doing today,” along with several other supported health and fitness prompts, the voice response ...
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If there’s one thing meteorologists Dan Hicks and Dale Mohler agree on, it’s the fact that soil is warming up early this year, but it still needs a little time to dry out. However, growers can rest easy knowing soil won’t ...
Navitas Semiconductor Inc of El Segundo, CA, USA has launched its first products, which are claimed to be the industry's first gallium nitride (GaN) power ICs. Navitas was founded in 2013, and in 2014 investment firm MalibuIQ licensed the ...
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Machine vision uses machines to measure and judge instead of human eyes. Typical machine vision systems can be divided into PCB machine vision system and embedded machine vision system (smart cameras). In 2015, the global machine vision ...
LEMA opens a new flagship store in Taiwan Lema continues its expansion into the Far East Market with a second store opening in Taiwan. After last year’s opening in Taichung, Lema has now opened a new flagship store in Taipei, ...
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Power management company Eaton today announced that the home field of the Vanderbilt University men’s baseball team, Hawkins Field in Nashville, Tennessee, has installed an advanced light-emitting diode (LED) system designed to ...
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Grundfos says its DSS uses an intelligent drive and microprocessor controller to ensure that each dose is performed precisely and with low pulsation, even with chemicals of high-viscosity or off-gassing properties. Packaged skid systems ...
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Somma Food Group has launched a partnership with the New York City Public School System in offering Chickentopiatm Drumstix in over 1,700 of their schools. First served in December, Chickentopiatm Drumstix are served to New York City's ...
Videojet launched new Corner Wrap applicator for its 9550 Print & Apply Labeling system. This applicator option provides substantial improvements in production throughput for applications that require labeling on two sides of the case so ...
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Mazda North American Operations has announced the pricing of its all new three-row crossover SUV 2016 Mazda CX-9. Offering a premium experience, fun-to-drive handling dynamics and bold KODO -- Soul of Motion design, CX-9 represents a ...
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