ECOtality, a provider of clean electric transportation and storage technologies, has completed the installation four Blink Wall Mount electric vehicle (EV) charging stations located at the northwest corner of Glimcher's Lloyd Center in ...
Tags: ECOtality, EV, charging stations
The New Central Library in downtown San Diego will have many stories to tell when it is completed in mid-2013. Not only from the books on the shelves, but from the old cars, worn out appliances and other pieces of scrap metal that were ...
Tags: Gerdau, San Diego New Central Library, steel
Nantong Teijin Co Ltd, the Teijin Group's polyester textile manufacturing and processing company in Nantong, China, announced its participation in Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, the world's largest apparel fabric trade fair, which ...
Tags: polyester textile, eco-friendly materials, intertextile, textile market
Vegware, the UK-based compostable foodservice packaging provider, has launched a compostable sugar stick. Unlike the conventional sugar sticks which use paper with an oil-based PE plastic lining, Vegware's sugar sticks replace the PE ...
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Consumer products manufacturing company Unilever is all set to develop pyrolysis technology to make it capable to recover fuel from the laminate sachet packaging which is being used for an increasing number of products. According to ...
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Australia-based environmental packaging and recycling solutions provider Closed Loop will implement IFS Applications component-based ERP suite, from Sweden-based enterprise applications company IFS to support its business growth. The ...
Tags: environmental packaging, packaging
Global paper and packaging company International Paper has released its 2011 Sustainability Report that features the company's new suite of 12 voluntary sustainability goals, which it expects to achieve by 2020. The company plans for 15% ...
Spanish firm SAICA has acquired Stirling Fibre Group, the UK-based independent provider of waste management solutions. The acquisition is expected to boost expansion of SAICA's Natur business in the UK. The latest acquisition is a part ...
Tags: waste management solutions, Cutts Recycling, Recycled Paper
North American manufacturer of corrugated and consumer packaging RockTenn has announced plans to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by 10%, as part of its 2020 sustainability goals. Further the company aims to reduce water use ...
The British high-street retail giant Marks & Spencer, also known as M&S, has launched its first outfit made entirely with the old unwanted clothes of shoppers. The product, which is a limited-edition ladies wool coat, is a result of the ...
Tags: recycled outfit, ladies wool coat, clothing
Poole Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of textile fibers and specialist in virgin polyester fibers, recycled fibers, heavy denier, and nonwovens fibers, announced that it has launched a new Full-Circle program for its EcoSure ...
Coca-Cola and its Mexican bottlers Arca Continental, Embotelladora Bepensa, Yoli Acapulco, Corporacion del Fuerte, Corporacion Rica, Embotelladora del Nayar and Embotelladora de Colima have agreed to invest $34m to double the capacity of ...
Tags: PET recycling facility, recycling services, PET recycling project
UK companies including Ocado, Carlsberg, Nestlé Waters, PLB Group and Typhoo have signed up to the Courtauld Commitment, taking the total number of major UK brands, suppliers and retailers to 53 signatories. The voluntary ...
Tags: Firms Pledge, packaging waste, traditional grocery product
US-based health care services company Cardinal Health has announced the launch of its surgical gloves portfolio in sustainable, half-fold packaging. The portfolio includes the Protexis powder-free and Triflex powdered surgical gloves. The ...
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Aluminum rolling and recycling firm Novelis is planning to invest $100m to build a new automotive aluminum sheet manufacturing plant in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District, China. Scheduled to start operations in late 2014, the new plant ...
Tags: aluminum rolling, automotive aluminum sheet, fuel-efficient vehicles