Packaging is increasingly recognised as a vital weapon in the fight against food waste. Philip Chadwick reports on how the flexible plastics sector is innovating to play its part in packaging's biggest challenge It's a staggering figure ...
Tags: food, drink, wasted, Packaging, flexible plastics, keeping food fresh
Scientists have developed a new process to produce a nutritious form of puffed rice that has more proteins and other nutrients compared to commercial puffed rice. Commercial puffed rice is produced through steam extrusion, where an ...
Tags: nutritious, new process, puffed rice, proteins
Redi-2-DrinQ Group has introduced a new stand-up pouch-selling system The Pouch Store, in association with PPi Technologies, a manufacturer and distributor of pouch packaging machine technology. Redi-2-DrinQ, with the manufacturing ...
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It goes without saying that China has proven it is a true heavyweight global contender. The herculean growth achieved by China over the past two decades is unprecedented in the annals of human history. China has overtaken Japan to become ...
Tags: China, Standard and Poor's, data, economy
Industrial gas provider Praxair Inc of Danbury, CT, USA and its divisions and subsidiaries (Praxair Distribution Inc, Praxair Healthcare Services, Praxair Canada Inc, and Praxair Puerto Rico B.V.) is notifying bulk and packaged, industrial, ...
Tags: Praxair, Electronic, gases
Current economic struggles and the recent heavy focus on environmental matters, has many searching for new ways to improve both issues. Addressing such topics, a new report from Oil Price discusses the benefits that heat pumps provide to ...
Tags: environmental matters, Oil Price, cleaner source, energy, renewable energy
Panasonic said Monday it has developed a new system for artificial photosynthesis that can remove carbon dioxide from the air almost as well as plants do, as part of the company's push to join an industry-wide trend toward greener tech. ...
Tags: Panasonic, new system, artificial photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, the air
BASF and Hisense have jointly presented a new highly energy efficient domestic refrigeration technology using the newly launched Elastocool® low-density polyurethane solution from BASF. Combined with Hisense’s advanced foaming ...
Sheldon Manufacturing, Inc introduces the SHEL LAB Model 2428H, the newest addition to its large capacity CO2 incubator line. This 27 cubic foot incubator features active humidity control up to 95%. "The three most critical incubator ...
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have demonstrated a better way to use photosynthesis to produce ethylene, a breakthrough that could change the way materials, chemicals, and ...
Tags: NREL, photosynthesis, ethylene, cyanobacterium
Baptist South Medical Center is enrolling mastectomy patients into a clinical study of new tissue expansion method designed to evaluate a new tissue expansion method for those who choose to undergo breast reconstruction. The randomized, ...
Tags: Baptist South Medical Center, mastectomy patients, clinical study
Spacelabs Healthcare, a subsidiary of OSI Systems, has obtained 510(k) approval for its new compact, sidestream gas analyzer, Capnography Pod, from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Capnography Pod, which is compatible with the ...
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FDT Consulting Engineers & Project Managers (FDT) and Koch Membrane Systems (KMS) have been presented with a Green Apple award at the Palace of Westminster, London, UK. FDT won the Gold Award and nominated Koch Membrane Systems as ...
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ZAO Air Liquide Severstal, a joint venture between Air Liquide and OAO Severstal has successfully launched a plant to produce industrial gases for CherMC at Cherepovets Steel Mill, part of Severstal’s Russian Steel Division. The ...
Tags: Air Liquide, OAO Severstal, industrial gas, gas industry
Germany-based IntraVis Vision Systems will exhibit its EVOH barrier inspection system at the Pack Expo on 28-31 October 2012 in Chicago, US. EVOH creates a barrier to oxygen and carbon dioxide, locking quality and essence inside the ...