The Fashion Institute of Technology presents – ‘Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles’ a four-day series of lectures, discussions, site visits, and hands-on workshops focusing on sustainability and technology in fashion ...
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Flint Group is a leading global supplier of inks and other print consumables such as flexographic printing plates, blankets, image transfer products and chemicals for press rooms, to the packaging and the print media industries. The ...
European coatings companies have been hoping that this year would bring a revival in their domestic markets as the European Union economies, particularly those in the eurozone, started to show signs of recovery around mid-2013. But the ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has named the recipients of the 2013 LEED for Homes Awards, recognizing projects, developers and homebuilders that have demonstrated outstanding leadership in residential green building. The award ...
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Armstrong World Industries named The Kroger Co. as its 2013 Flooring Recycler of the Year. The Armstrong award recognizes organizations that made significant environmental contributions by recycling VCT materials during demolition ...
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There are a number of certification systems for sustainable building. The DGNB System is unique. It provides an objective description and assessment of the sustainability of buildings and urban districts. Quality is assessed comprehensively ...
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BASF and Sinopec today inaugurated two new plants for acrylic acid and superabsorbent polymers (SAP) at their state-of-the-art Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co., Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China. Additionally, a new butyl acrylate ...
Tags: Basf, Construction, Acrylic Acid, Chemicals
Work on creating BREEAM began at Building Research Establishment (BRE) (based in Watford, UK) in 1988, and the first version for assessing new office buildings was launched in 1990. This was followed by versions for other buildings ...
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BREEAM works to raise awareness amongst owners, occupiers, designers and operators of the benefits of taking a sustainability approach. It helps them to successfully and cost effectively adopt sustainable solutions, and provides market ...
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Asda stores in the UK are leading the way in a global fit out of LED lighting fixtures in the stores of its parent company Walmart. The fixtures are supplied by GE, and Walmart says they will use 40 per cent less energy than the lighting ...
Good agricultural practice (GAP) are specific methods which, when applied to agriculture, create food for consumers or further processing that is safe and wholesome. While there are numerous competing definitions of what methods constitute ...
In the context of globalisation and international competition, many companies source labour-intensive goods from developing and newly industrialised countries. However, working conditions in these countries often do not comply with basic ...
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Shorr Packaging, an industry leader in integrated, cost-effective packaging solutions, announces the opening of a new sales and distribution center in the greater Atlanta, Ga. area. This expansion allows the company to further develop sales ...
H&M publishes its twelfth Conscious Actions Sustainability Report. Some of the highlights during 2013 are the launch of H&M´s roadmap for fair living wages, the first closed loop collection made with recycled material from collected ...
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Irish paper-based packaging company Smurfit Kappa has developed a new solution that prevents flow of mineral oil hydrocarbons from packaging into food products. The new Catcher Board MB12 creates a blocking mechanism across the whole ...