Mars Chocolate North America has secured LEED Gold certification for its new manufacturing plant in Topeka, Kansas. Spread over an area of around 500,000ft2, the Topeka plant produces M&M'S brand candies and Snickers bars. The plant has ...
Taiwan government announces ambitious goal for the 3D printing industry.Taiwan's?Premier Jiang Yi-huah has announced the goal of helping Taiwan's 3D-printing industry boost production capacity to capture?30% of global market for 3D printers ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has named the recipients of the 2013 LEED for Homes Awards, recognizing projects, developers and homebuilders that have demonstrated outstanding leadership in residential green building. The award ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has named the recipients of the 2013 LEED for Homes Awards, recognizing projects, developers and homebuilders that have demonstrated outstanding leadership in residential green building. The award ...
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The seven-seat Volkswagen CrossBlue SUV will make the transition from concept to production when it launches in North America in 2016. Production confirmation of Volkswagen’s largest SUV has been expected since the CrossBlue concept ...
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A Renewable Energy Village has taken root in farmland contaminated by radiation fallout from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster. The project's vision of combining solar panels with growing crops aims to inspire Japanese ...
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"Where are the robots?" That was what many people were asking when events at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant spiraled out of control in March 2011. With deadly levels of radiation collecting inside the damaged reactors, attempting to ...
The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Group announced a framework for prioritising the phase out of hazardous chemical substances used in the apparel and footwear supply chain, completing another milestone of the Joint Roadmap, ...
The high level 2nd Euratex Convention takes place on 4 & 5 November at Deutsche Bank, Berlin. The event is organized and run by Gesamtverband textil+mode. Representatives from banks, institutes, associations and companies are looking into ...
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Microsoft is pursuing the ideal of OS platforms: a unified code base that runs from smartphones to servers, giving users a consistent experience across devices at home and at work, and developers a common tool set for building applications. ...
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NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them and it wants your help doing it. The space agency today issued an asteroid-focused Grand Challenge, calling on scientists and citizen scientists ...
US-based chemical company DuPont has opened a seed production facility in Poltava oblast, Ukraine, with an investment of $40m, a move which will help Ukrainian farmers increase their productivity. The production facility is operational ...
For many consumer goods and beverage companies, labels allowing customers to effectively interact with their brand, are considered the Holy Grail. Similarly, they are seeking solutions to allow their boxed products to communicate with the ...
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Cisco Systems posted higher revenue and profit in its fiscal second quarter as Chairman and CEO John Chambers reiterated the company's ambitious goal to become the biggest company in IT. For the quarter ended Jan. 26, Cisco posted revenue ...
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With the release of the first service pack for Microsoft System Center 2012, Microsoft is taking another step in its ambitious goal of helping customers manage their on-premises IT and Microsoft Azure cloud services with a single set of IT ...
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