Unilever is launching a consumer challenge to UK families to help them tackle food waste Dubbed 'The Sustain Ability Challenge', the six-month "live social experiment" will feature 12 families reducing their monthly food bills by 15% ...
Tags: food waste, food going off quickly, throwing away leftovers
New ECF series drives from DeltaSense can also drive standard AC motors An ability to drive the permanent magnet synchronous motors has become widespread in energy saving fans, compressors, pumps etc. The new ECF series drives from ...
Tags: market view, motor, standard motor, synchronous motors
BT and Virgin Media have each submitted complaints to the European Commission (EC) about plans for a state-funded broadband network in Birmingham. The City Council was awarded the money for the project after applying to the Urban ...
Hosting companies purporting to offer cloud services are offering the same services that they were 10 years ago,but simply marketing them as cloud instead in a bid to make money,claims Flexiant founder Tony Lucas. "If you were to believe ...
Tags: Hosting Companies, cloud services, Flexiant, cloud computing
Microsoft and Google are to feel the full force of EU regulations this month as antitrust and privacy concerns threaten to catch up with the technology giants. The EU could issue Microsoft with a formal antitrust complaint, after it ...
Tags: Microsoft, Google, European Commission, BCS
European Union on 10 October 2012 decided to amend the anti-dumping duty on imports of certain iron or steel fasteners originating in China. The products fall within CN code 73181290, 73181491, 73181499, 73181559, 73181569, 73181581? ...
Tags: Industry Trends, Fasteners
The FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) Council of Europe has blamed the tradition of one large incumbent provider and the lack of ambition from the government for the UK lagging behind when it comes to fibre broadband. This week sees the council ...
Tags: FTTH, fibre-to-the-home, fibre broadband, lagging behind
Tough times seem to be looming on the Sri Lankan garment sector as European Commission(EC)has forewarned of a further decline in value of Sri Lankan rupee in terms of US dollar. Additionally,the Sri Lankan garment exports have now started ...
Tags: rupee, EC, garment sector
Caprari has announced that its products already conform to the EU Regulation (Lot 11) ‘ErP Ready’. Italian manufacturer of electric pumps and submersible motors for both civil and industrial use, Caprari’s says ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery
Health Canada has reaffirmed that bisphenol A(BPA)is safe to be used in food packaging and does not pose a health risk. This is the latest update by the agency,which conducted an assessment in 2008.The announcement comes when the ...
Tags: BPA, food packaging, safe
The companies make and distribute polystyrene(PS)foam trays and polypropylene(PP)rigid trays.These products are widely used for packaging food–such as fish,meat or cheese–in the retail sector. The EC said that these firms ...
Tags: EC, PS foam trays, PP rigid trays, EU antitrust rules
A number of glass companies traveled to Las Vegas last week to take part in GlassBuild America.While the show primarily targets glazing companies,exhibitors reported that they were also seeing a few architects walking the show,and were ...
Tags: Glass, Architectural Glazing, Building
In Bregenz (Austria), LpS Symposium this week attracts experts from throughout the lighting industry to discuss the status of solid-state lighting under scientific and technological aspects. Reflecting the development of this industry, the ...
Tags: LED
The European Commission(EC)has said it will work with the US and Japan to prevent data protection regulation from curbing the uptake of cloud computing across the region. According to the EC,up to€45bn could be spent on cloud ...
Tags: EC, US, Japan, data protection, cloud computing, EU, ETSI
The European Commission(EC)has outlined a cloud computing strategy that aims to boost European business and government productivity. The strategy,dubbed Unleashing the potential of cloud computing in Europe,aims to deliver a net gain of ...
Tags: EC, cloud computing strategy, create 2.5 million new jobs, Kroes