While this decline was spread across all three market sectors — light metal packaging, steel drums and similar containers, and other containers (of a capacity exceeding 300 litres — it was most substantial in the light metal ...
Tags: Metal Packaging, Falling Demand
The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, a federally recognized Native American tribe located in northeastern Nebraska, and the Tribe’s Utilities Commission have reached a settlement with the United States to improve the Tribe’s drinking ...
Tags: EPA, certification
Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has stated that for the second half of the current year it foresees growth in the pipe market in Russia mainly due to higher consumption of large diameter (LD) ...
DALLAS – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $450,000 to the New Mexico Environment Department as the first funding portion of an annual $900,000 state program continuing grant. The grant helps to fund the ...
Tags: EPA, Mexico Environment Department, Service
Long held assumptions about the direction and dynamics of the iron ore market have been severely tested in 2014. After hitting a high of $158.90 in February, the industry was jolted on March 10, when iron ore suffered the worst one-day ...
Tags: Iron Ore, raw material
Speaking at the 2014 China Coal, Coke & Steel Industries Conference (CCIC) held in Qingdao on August 21, Wang Xiaoqi, vice chairman of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), stated that in the first seven months of the current year ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Metallurgy
Growth in China's vast manufacturing industry weakened in August, suggesting that the recovery in the world No. 2 economy is losing momentum and Beijing may need to spoon out more stimulus. The preliminary version of HSBC's manufacturing ...
Six of the stadia for the FIFA World Cup in Russia in 2018 will be assessed under the BREEAM standard. A key sustainable feature of the new stadia will be highly energy efficient lighting designed to achieve international best ...
Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) has reported a more than 52% increase in U.S. gross post-consumer carpet collections from 2012 to 2013. As revealed in the organization's 2013 Annual Report, CARE partners have diverted 534 million ...
Tags: CARE, Report, Construction
The European semiconductor distribution industry continues to deliver good news. According to DMASS (Distributors’ and Manufacturers’ Association of Semiconductor Specialists) semiconductor distribution sales in Q2/CY14 grew by ...
Tags: European, Growth, Electronics
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has launched a transfer-molded super-mini dual in-line package power factor correction (DIPPFC) module incorporating silicon carbide (SiC) transistors and diodes that is expected to help reduce the power ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has been recognized by Lightwave magazine with two Lightwave ...
(Boston) – The U.S. EPA announces that BJ's Wholesale Club is the first wholesale club and the most recent participant in EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge, a national initiative aimed at encouraging businesses and institutions to ...
Tags: EPA, BJ, Service, Certification
Recycling is great when it works. To make it work, recyclable glass has to be separated from all the other material that ends up in recycling bins. In the UK, glass manufacturer, Ardagh, has just signed a fifteen year agreement with ...
Kellogg has announced new global sustainability commitments in two areas – responsible sourcing and natural resources, that are actionable until 2020. "This company was founded on the belief that there's an inherent goodness in ...