Cardia Bioplastics is in the middle of a major expansion due to demand for its products. That growth spurt seems even more likely to continue now that it has won an IAIR Green Excellence Award. The award is the result of a global survey ...
The UAE's Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange, or DGCX, and China's Dalian Commodity Exchange, or DCE, announced Wednesday that they will simultaneously launch their respective polypropylene futures contracts on February 28. "The ...
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The European Commission is funding a new research project to develop large-scale solid state lighting modules. The modules are being specifically developed for the professional and architectural lighting sectors, as these have been early ...
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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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Nampak, producer of plastic milk bottles, commissioned the survey which found that 316,054 tonnes of plastic bottles were collected for recycling in 2012, and of those, 96,396 tonnes were HDPE milk bottles. Steve Morgan, technical manager ...
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On Feb. 10, 2014,Listeria monocytogenes,a bacterium that can cause human illness,was isolated from a sample of Cuajada en Terron (Fresh Cheese Curd) collected by representatives from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer ...
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At the Strategies in Light 2014 conference & exhibition in Santa Clara, CA, USA, EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), nanotechnology and ...
Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab) What is nanoparticle analysis and what biomedical applications does it have? Nanoparticle analysis is a very important field. Basically, we live in a world that is ...
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At its foundations, The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is an educational body with a broad mission to impart packaging expertise to the wider industry. So, early in 2013, the AIP worked with the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) ...
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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On Feb. 10, 2014,Listeria monocytogenes,a bacterium that can cause human illness,was isolated from a sample of Cuajada en Terron (Fresh Cheese Curd) collected by representatives from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer ...
(Phys.org) —From steel beams to plastic Lego bricks, building blocks come in many materials and all sizes. Today, science has opened the way to manufacturing at the nanoscale with biological materials. Potential applications range ...
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(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 ...
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This article was updated Feb. 24 with further recall information. At least eight people have been sickened with Listeria monocytogenes infections after eating cheese produced by Roos Foods under a number of brand names, according to the ...
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Rumors have been swirling since news broke this week of a possible meeting between Apple's top executive for acquisitions and the CEO of electric car maker Tesla. Citing a person familiar with the matter, The San Francisco Chronicle ...
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