South African retailer Woolworths is on a mission to save water and to do so, is changing store designs in its retail store network across the whole African continent. The retailer has set out to drastically reduce the amount of water ...
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At a seminar organised recently in Dhaka, experts recommended framing rules for making the Bangladesh textile industry environmental complaint due to the rise in demand for green products. The seminar titled ‘Legal and Regulatory ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has announced its third-generation chipset for 100Gbps Ethernet data-center and cloud ...
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NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
Nissan has announced that the company will conduct a local trial run of a car-sharing network for residents of the Sakonyama Danchi District in Yokohama City, Japan, starting this March using its using ultra-compact EVs. Nissan will be ...
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SAGE SatCom of San Diego, CA, USA (part of telecoms solutions provider REMEC Broadband Wireless), which provides compact Ka-band block up-converter (BUC) and transceiver solutions, is now shipping its high-power 20 watt linear Ka-band BUC ...
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Sensorex (which manufactures sensors for water applications) has introduced the first family of ultraviolet transmittance (UVT) monitors using UVC LEDs instead of mercury-based lamps as a light source. The LEDs are supplied by Crystal IS ...
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A mother’s “personal grudge” against China’s haze issues gave birth to the trending environmental documentary 'China's Haze: Under the Dome.’ The country’s serious air pollution became very personal for ...
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US president Barrack Obama-led task force has drafted a 40-page report planning to curb black-market fishing and mislabelling of seafood, which costs the US and the world billions of dollars of fishing revenue. The US stands second after ...
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A research from Netherlands based Rabobank finds that European Food & Agribusiness (F&A) industry is losing €60bn annually because of food wastage. The report identifies the supply chain as the source of most of the food wastage, ...
Tags: Food Wastage, crops handling, food packaging
Fairtrade International which introduced Fairtrade certified cotton in 2005 is now extending its approach to the entire textile value chain, for which it has prepared a draft. The organisation’s goal is to reach often-overlooked ...
Textile machinery manufacturer Loepfe has launched Falcon-I sensor for monitoring an individual yarn for finest knots, fluff, filamentation, smallest thick places or even capillary breaks. According to a Loepfe press release, the newly ...
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The health ministry of India has developed a track and trace mechanism that will enable consumers to check the authenticity of a drug with the help of the internet. The move comes after allegations from some international markets that ...
Despite products such as the Apple Watch, and teasingly titled Apple Watch Sport, hosting all the required sensors to track your daily steps, calorie burn and distances covered, given the challenge of recording more precise sporting ...
The Apple Watch could launch within a month or so, according to the most recent batch of rumors and indications from the company itself. While the device is expected to have more health-tracking functionality than any iDevice before it, ...
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