General Electric (GE) highlights top hotel lighting trends in 2014 in a recent article. Hotels are big business. In the United States alone, hotels comprise more than 5 billion square feet of space according to the U.S. Green Building ...
Avery Dennison Corporation, a global leader in labeling and packaging materials and solutions published its new sustainability report. Avery Dennison's sustainability report for 2011-2012 charts the company's progress and new opportunities. ...
Tags: Avery Dennison, Landfills
Now, wearing a pair of jeans means there is more water in the world for everyone. Lee introduces ‘Aqualite’ range of Denims made with much less water than usual. Even while reducing water usage at every stage of production, ...
Tags: Denim Jeans, Apparel
Solvay recently has been listed as a member of the European Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI Europe). DJSI is the front-ranking, non-financial global index of the most efficient companies in the area of social and environmental ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Noble Biomaterials, Inc., the global leader in bacterial management solutions and manufacturer of X-STATIC and X-STATICXT2 technologies, announces it has achieved bluesign system partnership after undergoing stringent bluesign screening. ...
Tags: Biomaterials Certified, Textile
Fashion SVP, the event specialising in near shore manufacturing, is delighted to announce that the third edition of Future Fabrics Expo, organised by The Sustainable Angle, will take place within Fashion SVP on 22nd-24th September 2013 at ...
An international team of scientists has created a tool to precisely pinpoint where petroleum and gas reserves have accumulated beneath the earth. One of the team members is a Chinese geologist from the University of California-Davis. "The ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Mohawk Group is pleased to introduce its Mixology collection, a contemporary carpet tile offering with a true lesson in sustainability, flexibility and beauty. The three styles in Mohawk Group's Mixology collection were designed to ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, floor
Eleven Vietnamese furniture and handicraft producers will be showing in a new permanent showroom at the High Point Market, Oct. 19-24, according to market organizers. The companies are exhibiting under the umbrella of the Vietnam Trade ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Walki, a manufacturer of technical laminates and protective packaging materials, has unveiled its new green field plant at Wroclaw in Poland. The new plant, which has a production capacity of about 50,000t per year, will initially meet ...
Tags: Walki, Green Field Plant
According to reports this morning (Saturday 14 September), Clegg will announce at this weekend's Liberal Democrat party conference that the charge has been adopted as government policy and will be introduced in 2015. Money from the charge ...
The Subway brand is set to unveil a series of improvements to the sustainability of its packaging as well as operational procedures. The brand will serve its hot drinks to eat-in or take-away in double-wall sustainable cup, which is made ...
Eitzen Chemical A/S will use Jotun's Hull Performance Solutions (HPS) on two of their largest chemical carriers. The first vessel, Siteam Discoverer, applied SeaQuantum X200 to the hull at the COSCO Dalian Shipyard in China in May, while ...
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Mediterranea, a leading manufacturer of porcelain tile in the U.S., has announced that its StonePeak production facility in Crossville, TN, has attained Green Squared Certification from the Tile Council of North America (TCNA). ANSI ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
SCS Global Services (SCS) announced that it has certified the recycled content in denim cotton fabric manufactured by Spanish textile manufacturer, Tejidos Royo S.L. This certification confirms that Tejidos Royo's 7708 CRUDO denim cotton ...