Paper-based packaging company Smurfit Kappa has introduced the 'Shelf-Facer' that can increase the visibility of products on shelves by about 50%. According to the company, tests have confirmed the advantages of Shelf-Facer that can pull ...
Tags: Paper-based packaging, Packaging
BASF has announced the commercial launch of PremAir NXT, a next-generation direct ozone reduction (DOR) catalytic coating technology that can help automakers meet new U.S. Tier 3 and California LEV III emissions reduction requirements. ...
Tags: catalytic coating technology, ozone conversion performance, Construction
At the 11th China International Forum on Solid State Lighting (SSL CHINA 2014) in Guangzhou (6-8 November), deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has launched its next-generation metal-organic chemical vapor deposition ...
Crop tours and yield estimates are all the rage this time of year, with the corn and soybean crops rounding the corner toward harvest, one many say could yield record crop output. But, no yield projection this early is perfect. Rarely ...
Tags: New Tool, Crop, Agriculture
The United States Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced it has unveiled a new, free, online search tool consumers can use to find out if a vehicle is directly impacted by a ...
Tags: NHTSA, Recall, Auto Parts
RLM Apparel Software Systems Inc., solutions provider to the fashion industry’s most important brands, has launched an easily accessible Financial Statement Report Designer for its leading FashionManager enterprise software solution. ...
Tags: RLM Apparel Software Systems, Report Designer, Textile
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new tool today to help communities prepare for, deal with and recover from floods. The Flood Resilience Checklist offers strategies that communities can consider, such as conserving ...
Tags: Service, EPA, Certification
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a new investment fund to facilitate private equity investments in agriculture-related businesses. The new Rural Business Investment (RBIC) will help USDA in providing ...
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has launched HubCab - a transportation tracking tool, in collaboration with German automaker Audi and GE. HubCab is transportation tracking tool that uses real time urban data to develop ...
Tags: tools, car technologies, taxi system
Flawed but colorful diamonds are among the most sensitive detectors of magnetic fields known today, allowing physicists to explore the minuscule magnetic fields in metals, exotic materials and even human tissue. University of California, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Electronics, Colored Diamonds
The Automotive Distribution Network says that as part of the evolving technology of its Network WebShop ecommerce solution, it has introduced a new feature that allows users to search for a vehicle by license-plate number and the state ...
A computerized safety checklist that automatically pulls information from patients' electronic medical records was associated with a threefold drop in rates of one serious type of hospital-acquired infection, according to a study by ...
Tags: Checklist, Threefold Drop, Hospital-Acquired Infection, LCD
Wind turbines, like any machine with moving parts, can fail. They have a useful life span, after which the loading on the various pieces including turbine blades and tower could cause decreases in efficiency or, in very rare cases, outright ...
Tags: CeBIT, Monitor Oscillation, Fraunhofer Institute, laser
Researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) are developing quality control systems for unprocessed and processed food items using infrared technology. Funded by an Australian Research Council grant, the project is aimed ...
Tags: Infrared Technology, Food Quality