Thintech Materials, Taiwan's largest supplier of aluminum target material with a market share of over 50%, has revealed that it has sent samples of its aluminum and silver-aluminum conductive pastes for solar products for certification. ...
Tags: Thintech Materials, aluminum target material, solar products
Pennsylvania is a bustling state with a rich industrial history. It's also, increasingly, an environmentally aware one.? Across the state, there are a strong number of green initiatives and businesses at the forefront of a new green boom in ...
Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc announced its market outlook for its first quarter of fiscal 2013. During the first half of the quarter, both export and domestic sales prices for ferrous metals dropped approximately USD 50 per ton from ...
Tags: Schnitzer Steel, ferrous, auto parts
What is the interplay between sustainability and industry's ever-greater environmental responsibility?What steps should firms take in response to the new geo-economic realignment of the planet?What strategic choices must be adopted given ...
Tags: man-made fibres, sustainability, sales, competitiveness
Closed Loop Recycling plans to invest £12m, in a bid to double its capacity and create 100 new jobs. This is being done by the plastic bottle recycling plant as part of a series of government-backed announcements aiming to showcase ...
Tags: plastic bottle recycling, low-carbon investment, carbon emissions
A UK-based recyclers group BPF (British Plastics Federation) that includes Jayplas, Eco Plastics and CK Polymers has called for splitting the recycling target for plastics, as it has made the UK heavily dependent on export markets for its ...
Tags: Responsibility System, plastic waste, plastic recycling
A Welsh council has unveiled a mattress recycling facility, with an aim to reduce the number of mattresses in the area being sent to landfill. Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough council has put up a machine at its Bryn Pica Landfill and ...
Supermarket chain in the US, Weis Markets has partnered with custom thermoformed packaging solutions supplier Clearly Clean Products to develop new meat trays that are 100% recyclable. The new modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) trays are ...
Tags: Recyclable Meat Trays, Meat Trays, Trays
UK’s biscuit brand McVitie’s manufacturer United Biscuits has partnered with recycling company TerraCycle for the launch of the McVitie’s Biscuit Wrapper Brigade. United Biscuits said the recycling fundraising scheme, ...
The recycling rate for all aluminium packaging in the UK based on the figures released by Defra show that it has increased by more than 4% putting the overall recycling rate at 45%, according to the Aluminium Packaging Recycling ...
Tags: Aluminium Packaging Recycling, Packaging Recycling, metal packaging
Australian grain handler GrainCorp has agreed to acquire Australian oilseed crusher Gardner Smith for A$302m ($313.82m) as well as Goodman Fielder's commercial oils business Integro Foods for A$170m ($176.65m). The deals, which represent ...
Tags: commercial oils business, edible oil sector, leading oilseed crusher
Midwest Exchange Enterprises has announced that it will set up a new plant for recycling of food-grade post-consumer PET. Likely to be situated beside its existing recycling plant, the new facility spreads over an area of 120,000ft2 with ...
Tags: Recycle Food, recycling of food-grade, post-consumer PET
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
Canada-based shipping and packaging firm Crownhill Packaging has embarked upon plans to promote eco-friendly measures in collaboration with several bodies. According to the firm, it has obtained credentials and membership as part of the ...
Tags: eco-friendly measures, packing materials, shipping packages
Closed Loop Recycling has sought all-party support for the 'We need your bottles' campaign that was officially launched in the presence of waste and recycling minister Lord Taylor in London. According to the firm, the campaign is meant ...