The UK Government has rejected a proposal from the Environment Audit Committee (EAC) to introduce a latte levy on disposable coffee cups. Earlier this year, the EAC has urged the government to charge 25p ‘latte levy’ on ...
Tags: Coffee Cups, reusable cup
The UK consistently overestimates the amount of plastic packaging that gets recycled, a report by waste consultancy Eunomia has claimed. A new Eunomia report reveals how the UK consistently overestimates how much of the plastic packaging ...
Tags: plastic packaging, Packaging
The UK’s Public Health England (PHE) has asked the food industry to cut down calories in their products by 20% by 2024, in a move to implement the government’s strategy to tackle childhood and adult obesity. According to the ...
Tags: food industry, healthcare
Bobst Group, a Swiss-based supplier of equipment and services to the packaging and label industries, has reported consolidated sales of CHF1 529m ($1,629m) in 2017, an increase of CHF82m, or 5.7%, compared to 2016. The operating result ...
Tags: packaging, label industries
PIX4life – a European pilot line within the European Horizon 2020 initiative that offers photonic integrated circuits for biophotonics and life-sciences applications – says that, after two years of internal development, it is ...
Tags: integrated circuits
Germany-based Herbold Meckesheim has supplied and commissioned a plastic film recycling system in Germiston South, near Johannesburg, in South Africa. The first large-scale plant for the recycling of heavily contaminated PE film waste has ...
Tags: Plastic Film, recycling system
CRAIC Technologies Inc of San Dimas, CA, USA has added Raman microspectroscopy to its flagship product: the 20/30 Perfect Vision microspectrophotometer. Users can now acquire Raman spectra by integrating the new Apollo II Raman ...
Chinese automaker GAC Motor is set to showcase its sedan and electric concept car at the 2018 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). The company will showcase is high-end models including GA8, GS8 and GM8 at the event, which will ...
Tags: GAC Motor, Concept Car
Schmidt's Naturals has introduced a new set of limited edition Holiday Collection deodorants in the US. The Holiday Collection offers three scents that exemplify the season – Oh, Christmas Tree, Snow Day, and Holiday Spice, all made ...
Tags: Schmidt's Naturals, Christmas Tree
Evonik has agreed to acquire 3M’s high-concentrates additive compounding business for an undisclosed sum. Evonik will include the acquired operations in its interface and performance business line, which produces and markets ...
Philips Lighting says that it has now delivered 1 billion LED lamps and luminaires as part of its commitment to the ‘Global Lighting Challenge’, the Clean Energy Ministerial campaign to deploy 10 billion high-efficiency light ...
SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (an Orbotech company that manufactures etch, PVD and CVD wafer processing solutions for the MEMS, advanced packaging, LED, high-speed RF on GaAs, and power management device markets) has won an ...
Tags: SPTS, GaN-on-SiC, LED
Ricoh will launch a new material for its SLS RICOH AM S5500P 3D printer at formnext. The company is claimed to be first to develop polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) for SLS machine. PBT has high strength property and is a heat resistant ...
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This month sees the launch in Grenoble, France of the three-year, €7.2m European Union ‘Horizon 2020’ project ModulED, which brings together 10 European research institutes, key members of the automotive-industry value ...
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has been chosen to provide the RF solution for the new NB-IoT modules of machine-to-Machine (M2M) ...
Tags: Qorvo, Smart Metering