Teijin Limited announced that it has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, a global benchmark for socially responsible investing, for the fourth consecutive year effective September 24. Teijin appreciates the continued ...
Tags: Sustainability, environment, carbon fibers, polyester fibers
South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor's Indian subsidiary is planning to begin exporting Eon car from India within a month to the South Asian and African countries. The company's move is expected to help its local unit partly balance the ...
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German auto-parts maker and engineering firm Robert Bosch is planning to produce lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EV) from 2016. In the second half of 2012, the German auto-parts maker aims to bring a lithium-ion battery to ...
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Teijin Limited announced that it has been selected for inclusion in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index(CDLI)2012 in recognition of its approach to and quality of reporting climate-change data.The CDLI works with 655 institutional ...
Xylem Inc. has released of its first sustainability report as a stand-alone company. The report, A Drop is Everything, details Xylem’s accomplishments in the area of sustainability for its worldwide operations in the past year, and ...
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Taipei, Nov. 2, 2012 (CENS)--American automaker Ford Motor Co. recently demonstrated a prototype carbon-fiber engine hood that helps lower fuel consumption. The carbon-fiber reinforced plastic Ford Focus hood displayed at the Composites ...
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A man who exposed a major privacy weakness that divulged email addresses of iPad users on AT&T's network plans to appeal his conviction on two felony charges. Andrew Auernheimer,also known as"weev,"used an automated scripting tool called ...
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Recycling bottles and jars is a concept we are all familiar with. The 750, 000tonnes that we put in bottle banks each year goes someway to offsetting the 2 million tonnes or so that we use for containers. Half as much glass (at least 1m ...
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Dow Corning's Ranjangaon site has been recognized by the Deccan Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture (DCCIA) Pune for best practices in safety. The DCCIA Pune newly instituted the "DCCIA Safety Award 2012" for recognizing "Best ...
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Equate Petrochemical Company announced that it has restarted the 550,000 metric tons annually (MTA) Ethylene Glycol (EG) unit. An Equate officials said, "The unit was successfully restarted after being shutdown last July following a fire ...
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The Dow Chemical Company announced a restructuring program designed to accelerate cost reduction actions and advance the next stage of the Company's transformation in the midst of persistently slow macroeconomic growth. These actions will ...
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Even though an upbeat U.S.government jobs report caused shares of some companies to jump Friday,tech vendor stocks faltered on the back of mixed quarterly reports. Tech vendor financial reports this week painted a portrait of the state of ...
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The US Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank has sanctioned a sum of US$ 4.975 billion to be provided in direct loan to aid construction of a petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia, which is expected to support over 18,000 jobs across 13 states in the ...
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Hennes&Mauritz AB(H&M)has been included to the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability Index World in 2012.The index lists the most sustainable companies per sector based on an extensive annual assessment conducted by the independent asset ...
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The Dow Chemical Company and the Saline Water Conversion Corporation(SWCC)have signed a commercial agreement for research collaboration. Dow and SWCC's first action after this agreement will be to launch a pilot project to test the ...
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