Forum Packaging has replaced over 450 fluorescent tubes and sodium lamps with environmentally friendly induction lights, in a bid to annually save energy and more than £20,000 on its electricity bills and maintenance costs. The ...
Tags: ISO 14001, enviromental Standard, Forum Packaging, fluorescent tubes
AK&M reported LUKOIL Overseas signed the package of documents to complete the sale of its 8% share in offshore hydrocarbon production projects in the Est Rapsodia and Trident exploration blocks in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea to ...
A new Life-Cycle-Assessment (LCA) undertaken by the Intertek Group for UK-based Symphony Environmental Technologies’ d2w oxo-biodegradable plastic carrier bags and bread bags revealed that the oxo-biodegradable bag performed 75% ...
Tags: plastic carrier bags, oxo-biodegradable bag, litter category
Food service disposables and food packaging producer Pactiv has introduced the new EarthChoice 25 Percent Post Consumer Recycled Content Foam Foodservice packaging products for disposable food service needs. According to the US-based ...
Tags: Foodservice Packaging Containers, Containers, Foodservice Packaging
The Arabian United Float Glass Company, the first independent float line in the Middle East and Africa has committed to taking the first steps to implementing a strategic approach to reducing its impact on the environment and engaged the ...
Tags: float glass, glass, carbon footprint, energy
Beer brewer Grolsch said it would start using a lightweight bottle cap for all of its returnable bottles beginning October. The new bottle caps are said to be 17% lighter, with 19% lesser steel, which would help Grolsch save over ...
Tags: Bottle Caps, Lightweight Bottle Caps, returnable bottles
As committed leaders in driving innovation and sustainability for the textile industry, Huntsman Textile Effects and DyeCoo Textile Systems are joining forces to develop and grow Supercritical CO2 textile processing technology. This spells ...
Tags: textile dyeing sector, textile dyeing, textile market, textile industry
NineSigma has partnered with The Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science at the New York Academy of Sciences, and Sight and Life, DSM's nutrition think tank to help Scientists Without Borders find more sustainable packaging for ...
Tags: Sustainable Micro, cost-effective packaging, packaging solution
Falstaff Pear,a new variety of red pear,has won the main prize at Macfrut 2012,the international exhibition of the fruit and vegetable sector held in Cesena,Italy,from 26 to 28 September. This variety is similar in shape to the Abate ...
Tags: prize, innovative products, Logistics
Various environment protection and health groups in Taiwan have sought a ban on expansion of the naphtha cracker operated by the Formosa Plastics Group in Yunlin County’s Mailiao Township. Representatives of the Changhua Medical ...
Tags: naphtha cracker, environmental impact, environment groups
The latest funding opportunity from the DOE is for round 4 of the SSL Manufacturing program, supporting efforts to develop LED and OLED manufacturing strength in the US. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is offering up to $11 million in ...
Tags: DOE, LED, OLED, solid-state lighting, lights
US-based Universal Protective Packaging (UPPI) and Belgium-based ANL Plastics have completed an agreement for the production, sales and marketing of custom, thermoformed HDPE fragility packaging solutions. As per the agreement, ANL ...
Tags: Packaging Solutions, HDPE fragility, plastic packaging
Chemical and plastics solutions provider in Austria, Borealis has launched new polypropylene (PP) grade BorPure RF490MO for transparent and non-opaque colored closures. The grade offers a stiffness/impact balance with transparency and ...
Tags: Borealis, polypropylene grade, closure
Novozymes presents bioinnovations at the AOCS World Conference: enzymes as the perfect match for the unique conditions in China, allowing consumers to save time, money and CO2 when doing their laundry – by hand or by machine. ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a solid-state lighting (SSL) funding opportunity on November 29, 2012. Up to $11 million in funding is directed toward the existing DOE SSL R&D program area of Manufacturing Research and ...
Tags: lighting