An upgraded version of Agren's SoilCalculator has been released. This version allows providers to estimate soil erosion and associated economic cost. "Report outputs quantify the economics of lost production due to soil erosion under ...
Despite a sharp decline in oil prices, the world economic outlook is subdued, weighed down by underlying weakness elsewhere, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest update to the World Economic Outlook (WEO). Compared ...
Tags: oil prices, world economic outlook, Textile
Unilever Thailand will invest around THB8bn ($246m) in the country to expand its operations over the next three years. Of the total investment, around THB1.5bn ($46.1m) will be employed in the construction of an ice cream cold storage ...
Tags: Unilever, Operations, Food
Ternium Mexico signed an agreement Friday with the National Institute of Entrepreneurship (Inadem) to link together to micro, small and medium-sized Mexican companies in the value chain through the support of 40 million pesos (US$3.07 ...
Tags: Ternium Mexico, Agreement, Energy
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. engineers were at the University of Toledo in Ohio on June 12 to explore ways to apply space-age innovations to company projects involving the development of a coating for tire molds and RFID technology. Members ...
Tags: tire, tyre, auto parts, cooper
The year 2013 was a consolidation year not only for the textile industry, which faced quite adverse and uncertain market conditions, but also for EURATEX who continued to implement the new strategy aimed at profiling the industry, says ...
Florida Organic Aquaculture (FOA) has opened its new organic shrimp production and research facility in Fellsmere in Indian River County, a move which will create 512 jobs. The project was first announced in 2013, and is considered to be ...
Tags: Florida Organic Aquaculture, organic shrimp production
Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Sri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak officiated at the groundbreaking of an integrated aroma ingredients complex, set up by BASF and PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) via their joint venture company BASF ...
Tags: Basf, Construction, Decoration, Chemicals
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee chairman and ranking member have asked the Energy Information Administration to analyze the impact of lifting restrictions on US crude oil exports. "This is a complex puzzle that is best ...
Tags: Crude Export, EIA Study
European coatings companies have been hoping that this year would bring a revival in their domestic markets as the European Union economies, particularly those in the eurozone, started to show signs of recovery around mid-2013. But the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
The BRE National Solar Centre (NSC) has carried out a comprehensive survey of jobs in the solar sector in 2013, detailing both staffing numbers and site installation activities. Commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change ...
In Italy, a new tool developed by Rome’s La Sapienza University with support from Nestlé, enables food producers, growers, processors and marketeers to better understand how people feel about a particular product, culinary raw ...
Tags: Food Industry, Nestle, New Tool
Altatech Semiconductor S.A. of Montbonnot, near Grenoble, France (a subsidiary of Soitec since January 2012) has received an order from the University of Washington in Seattle for an AltaCVD chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system, whose ...
Tags: CVD System, Process Materials
Every year, a third of people over 65 living in the UK will experience a fall. This not only causes considerable emotional distress and physical harm, but also costs an already over-stretched health system over £1 billion each year. ...
Tags: Older Adult, BU research, Preventative Exercise, hospital admission
A world-wide consultation on street lighting has been launched by The Climate Group and Philips. Launched at the Future of Urban Development session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, it aims to find out more about the ...
Tags: LED, EU-wide, Climate Group