The industrial world as we know it is changing rapidly, making more and more advances and coming up with new processes every day. This means that the supplemental processes that keep these industries functional, like logistics and ...
Tags: Dry Ice Blasting, Cleaning Method
A widely growing segment in the pallet industry is the reuse and recycling of pallets, as most users have become quite comfortable in using such re-conditioned items as they are still in good condition plus they are less expensive. As you ...
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Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has received an order from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. to supply the control system for an LNG carrier that is being built for the Ichthys LNG project* in Australia. The ship will be the ...
Caustic soda or sodium hydroxide or lye is that chemical from which it is impossible to get rid of. May be only heard the name in your chemistry classes during experiments with bases, but just have a look on the labels of cleaning agents ...
Tags: Caustic soda, chlorine production, needs more precautions
The standard will see the introduction of safe, high quality and energy efficient lighting products to the UAE market, as well as the phasing out of low quality, inefficient lighting products. These measures will reduce energy consumption ...
Tags: Indoor Lighting Standard, safe
The phrase, 'Eat your vitamins,' applies to marine animals just like humans. Many vitamins, including B-12, are elusive in the ocean environment. University of Washington researchers used new tools to measure and track B-12 vitamins in ...
Tags: Vitamin Water, Ocean, B-12, CO2
BASF increased sales and earnings in 2013 compared with the previous year. “2013 was again a demanding year, with a lot of headwind for our industry. Nevertheless, we achieved our goal: We sold more, worked more closely together with ...
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Sonoco today announced that it will raise the price for all paperboard tubes and cores by five to eight percent, effective with shipments in the United States and Canada beginning March 24, 2014. "This price increase is necessary to ...
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Wärtsilä receives the first order for its new Slop Water Treatment System Monday, Feb 24, 2014 The new Wärtsilä slop water treatment system has been ordered for an ultra-deep water drill ship operating in the Gulf of ...
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The Sun was once thought to provide energy for all life on Earth - meaning that life could not survive without it. In the 20th century, as astrobiologists began to explore the Earth's most remote and harsh environments, scientists began to ...
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Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has undergone impairment tests, according to IAS 36, that result in exceptional charges of EUR 257 million in the fourth quarter of 2013. Due to the expected development of overcapacities, as well as ...
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The Solvay Group announces its 4th quarter and full year 2013 Business Review Q4 Highlights • Group net sales at € 2,417 m, down (5)% yoy, with volumes (1)%, prices (3)%, forex (4)% and scope 3%. Allowing for CER phase ...
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RMIT University researchers in Melbourne, Australia, have developed the world's first liquid metal enabled pump, a revolutionary new micro-scale device with no mechanical parts. The unique design will enable micro-fluidics and ...
Tags: PNAS, Liquid Metal Pump, Micro-Fluidic, Lab-on-a-chip system
Fruit of the Loom, Inc., which designs, makes and markets Spalding and Russell Athletic apparel, has been named a recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Leadership Award for committing to reducing its carbon ...
Tags: Fruit, Agriculture, Food
People have long known there is energy in wastewater; extracting it economically is the problem. Startup Cambrian Innovation claims its technology can do it and a brewery and a winery are now using it to clean their wastewater while ...
Tags: energy in wastewater, reduced energy costs, wastewater reuse