Members of the British Retail Consortium have set themselves an ambitious target of reducing energy-related building emissions by 50 per cent by 2020. The cut, compared to a 2005 baseline, follows BRC members beating their previous target ...
Tags: energy-related building emissions, Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme
China-based steel manufacturing and trading group Delong Holdings Ltd has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Delong Steel Singapore Projects Pte. Ltd. (DSL) has entered into a joint venture agreement with three Thai-based companies, ...
Tags: new steel mill, carbon structural steel, production capacity
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
In the manufacturer of the High Carbon Ferro Manganese is also producing the Ferro Silico Manganese in the same plant to produce the better quality steel products. Generally the product High Carbon Ferro Manganese is used as the additive to ...
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
RiteDia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of optical disc maker Ritek, has developed a diamond-like carbon coating which can be used on LED epitaxial wafers to enhance heat-dissipation for LED lighting chips, and plans to license the technology to ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Carbon Coating
The packaging firm worked with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and North Lanarkshire Council to facilitate Viridor's £25m investment for the project. The 'next generation' facility will use recycling technology ...
Tags: Glass Recycling, recycling technology, reduce energy costs
Ordinary fishing line and sewing thread have joined forces in the lab to create incredibly strong artificial muscles. The new artificial muscles could someday lend superhuman strength to robots and wearable exoskeletons for humans. The ...
US-based materials science company Landec is all set to expand commercial applications for its BreatheWay technology packaging solutions. The technology has been developed to optimize the ratio of carbon dioxide and oxygen within the ...
Tags: Landec, Breatheway Packaging
Engineers trying to speed up communication between computer chips have been working on using beams of light to replace the copper traces that shuttle data between microprocessors. Now a pair of researchers at Northeastern University in ...
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 ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
The Indiana State Museum will provide a platform that showcases how individuals and companies can tackle environmental issues at the annual Going Green Festival on Friday, March 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday, March 15 from 11 a.m. ...
(Phys.org) —Porous films, which use similar properties to those seen in moth eyes in combination with nanoparticles, are being developed into robust, self-cleaning antireflective coatings for use on both plastic and glass. Details ...
Tags: Moth Eye, Mimick, self-cleaning glass, tiny bump
New research led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng has led to the discovery of a new material that could have significant implications for a variety of challenges, from carbon dioxide storage to planetary science and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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