You've probably heard the claim that solar panels take more energy to make than they generate. That's a pretty crushing thing to hear if you've just hired an electrician to install a fancy new solar system in the belief that you're doing ...
Tags: Solar Panels, Construction, Decoration
Vivid Water has launched its flavored water brand Water in a Box in Tetra Pak cartons in the UK. The cartons supplied by the Swedish packaging company Tetra Pak are said to be made from Forest Stewardship Council certified paperboard. ...
The municipality has to implement promising investment project to build in the village of Leningrad plant for production of float glass. The design capacity of the plant will be 5.6 million square meters of flat glass per year.To ensure ...
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Closed loop recycler Duo UK has invested in customized co-extruder in a bid to meet the increasing customer demand for environmentally-sound packaging. According to the company, co-extrusion produces polythene film in multilayers, ...
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The sun is finally rising on the global solar business, with growing demand in developing regions helping to ignite the first increase in industry-wide capital spending in three years in 2014, according to research firm IHS. Global ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Solar Industry
Ajinomoto Brazil, a subsidiary of Japanese ingredients company Ajinomoto, has completed the expansion of its Limeira facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The company announced the BRL47m ($19.6m) investment in 2012 to substantially expand its ...
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Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
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DAK Americas plans to raise September prices for all grades of polyethylene terephthalate by 3 cents/lb, according to a letter sent to customers on Friday. "The announcement is necessary due to upward pressure on the price of raw ...
Ravi Sethi of ProcurianRaw material costs as a percentage of plastic packaging costs have been on a steady rise due to the long-term appreciation in crude oil prices, a key ingredient for resins. Crude oil prices have increased five-fold ...
INVISTA and computational biology company SilicoLife announce a collaboration for the development of new technologies to enable bio-derived processes for the production of industrial chemicals. The two companies are collaborating in order ...
Tags: industrial chemicals, Bio-Derived Raw Materials, Chemicals
It’s reported that Germany’s steelmaker Salzgitter announced to hike its prices for steel flat products by €30/ton, effective from September 1st, driven by higher input costs and better demand. Salzgitter stated that ...
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Showa Denko has decided to build a 100,000t/y ethyl acetate plant at its Oita Complex using its proprietary production process technology. The plant will start commercial production in June 2014. Ethyl acetate is used in wide-ranging ...
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According to statistics, in the first half year, China's total social logistics value is 93.1 trillion yuan, up by 9.1%. The logistic added value is 1.8 trillion yuan, up by 7.4%. Seen from business types, bulk commodities have low ...
Tags: Logistic Cost, GDP
Mexico is now positioned globally as the fifth largest importer of auto parts and raw materials to supplement production lines installed at car assemblers in Mexico, said Oscar Albin, CEO of the National Auto Parts Industry (INA). "Just ...
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Since the beginning of this year, Baosteel Stainless has set the goal of making stainless products into new engine products, gathering all staff to quickly improve the operational ability of grasping complicated situation. In the first half ...
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