According to Alison Cook, end user marketing manager UK, Ireland & Benelux at KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL, applying 'lean' principles can help companies improve health & safety at work, promote wellness among employees and boost ...
Mighty Bright, designer and manufacturer of innovative LED lighting products, is pleased to announce the LUX Bar LED Task Light has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Energy Star certification. The Energy Star ...
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SCS Global Services (SCS) has issued the first gold-level certification to Designtex, a Steelcase Company, under the factsm ecolabel developed by the Association for Contract Textiles (ACT). The certification recognizes Designtex's "Gold ...
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One year ago, with the world’s main sports event about to take place in London, The Dow Chemical Company presented an innovative and more sustainable solution to enable the completion of the Olympic Stadium as originally planned by ...
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Air France-KLM will further cut tonnes from its annual aircraft carbon dioxide emissions, simply by using revolutionary new lightweight cargo nets that it is now introducing. Just one new lightweight net with Dyneema? will save Air ...
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The closure of Premier Foods' Barry mill in the Vale of Glamorgan – with the loss of 43 jobs last week – and plans to reorganise its milling business into two parts could herald its sale, according to City analyst Investec. ...
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PMMI: The Association for Packaging & Processing Technologies, which owns and produces the PACK EXPO family of trade shows, and Koelnmesse GmbH, organizer of trade fairs including Anuga FoodTec, are joining forces to promote their packaging ...
Cargill has announced a new supply chain assessment tool, which can help food and beverage customers achieve their growth, cost reduction and risk mitigation goals by identifying, prioritizing and quantifying risks and opportunities in its ...
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How do you use packaging to communicate your sustainable strategy to customers? Come and find out. On July 17, 2013, Jim Hanna, director, environmental impact, Starbucks Coffee Co., will speak at the Packaging Digest Global Food & ...
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AkzoNobel Powder Coatings' Interpon D3000 Fluoromax coatings for architecture have been awarded a Certificate of Material Excellence by Material ConneXion and accepted into Material ConneXion’s library of innovative materials. The ...
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The current direction of smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry means its products might not be a sustainable option for use in BYOD schemes. That's what Maurice Jenkins, director of information systems and telecommunications for Miami ...
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UK government has collaborated with the county's automotive industry to make GBP1m investments in an advanced propulsion centre (APC) over the next ten years. Both the government and automotive industry will invest GBP500m each in the APC ...
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare ...
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The Michigan Baseball Foundation (MBF) acquired a grant from the Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network in the amount of $33,679 for converting lights and occupancy sensors to LED lighting on the exterior and front entries of Dow Diamond. ...
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LEDtronics®, Inc., the pioneers of solid-state, LED lighting design and manufacturing in the United States, announced that their new, LED lamps at the Santa Monica Pier and Carousel Building are helping the 97-year-old landmark conserve ...
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