The Outdoor Furniture Manufacturing industry has suffered over the past five years due to lackluster recovery and high import competition, and smaller enterprises in the United States will struggle over the next five years, as they lack the ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Outdoor Furniture
A month ago, Tetra Pak began a campaign to force packaging companies to increase supply chain sustainability. Resource efficiency means looking at packaging's entire life cycle, the company emphasized. "You need to understand your supply ...
Project MarineClean was launched in December 2011 in Eastern Europe as a three year project. It is nearing completion. The 1.1 million Euro undertaking aims to decrease marine litter, one of the major ecological threats, in four areas of ...
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 launched the MAAL-011078, a single-stage, low-noise, ...
Tags: M/A-COM LNA, Amplifier
Packaging solutions provider Amcor Flexibles has developed a polyethylene bread bag for Hovis, which is made from renewable resources. Hovis Seed Sensations bread bag is made with renewable polyethylene (PE) and compared to traditional ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Polyethylene Bread Bag, Bag
One of the side effects of the world's deciding to avoid gluten and an increasingly insistent need to produce food sources of protein, is a surge in the popularity of lupins - legumes like soybeans, peas and lentils. In Australia, lupins ...
Recycling and preparing for reuse of packaging waste is to be increased to 80% (by weight) by 2030 with individual materials? required to recycle more. Paper, ferrous metal, aluminium and glass have been set a 90% target while plastic ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Paper Recycling
One of the fundamental challenges of battery technology is that lithium-ion batteries — by far the best general option for energy storage currently in wide commercial use — are intrinsically bulky and heavy. A new research ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Supercapacitor, Copper Wires
Renewable packaging material provider BillerudKorsns has introduced two new paper product families to meet growing demand for paper bags and carriers within the retail and food sectors. The company has introduced the new Xpression and ...
The UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has provided funding for a consortium to improve recycling and the remanufacture of aluminum. LRS Consultancy will lead the recycling project in ...
Tags: Aluminum Recycling, Defra
The UK government has excluded small retailers from the proposed 5p carrier bag charge, which will come into force in England in October 2015. Government noted that its proposals for England only apply to plastic bags. The cross-party ...
Tags: Plastic Bag, carrier bag
Texen Group (Groupe Texen) has commissioned KraussMaffei’s CX series two-component injection molding machine to use in wide range of technologies. The multi-component machine with advanced refined procedural and mechanical features ...
Tags: Injection Molding Machine, Texen
Consolidated Container (CCC), an investment arm of Bain Capital in the plastic packaging sector, has acquired plastic recycling companies Envision Plastics and Ecoplast from their founders Massoud Rad and Parham Yedidsion. Both the ...
Tags: Consolidated Container, Ecoplast
American automotive company Ford Motor has introduced a new inflatable airbag restraint design, which is set to debut in the upcoming 2015 Ford Mustang in order to increase the passenger safety The new airbag system comes with knee airbag ...
Tags: Ford Motor, Airbag Restraint