A few days ago,I ran into a friend of mine,who specializes in copper and brass accessories and fixtures for homes.I asked if he had much work.He said the summer was slow,but business had picked up a bit this fall.What work he's gotten has ...
Tags: copper, brass accessories, fixtures, Kitchen design
DuPont’s annual Awards for Packaging Innovation has selected Curwood’s FreshCase packaging technology for meat as this year's diamond winner, as the solution addresses the effort to help ensure food maintains its nutritional ...
Travel goods products manufacturer Olivet International and global manufacturer of sustainable plastic resins NextLife have formed a strategic alliance to further the goals of sustainability on a global scale. The partnership also aims to ...
Tags: Sustainable Initiative, Travel goods products, sustainable plastic
Be Green Packaging, a compostable packaging material producer in the US, has finalised the purchase of the manufacturing plant, where it will house the compostable packaging facility. Be Green said it plans to open a manufacturing plant ...
Tags: Green Packaging, Manufacturing Plant, packaging material
Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines plans to use biomass fuel in its operations to reduce the bottling plants’ carbon emissions and other environment hazards. The company is widening its sources for renewable energy at all its facilities ...
The solar industry has been in a market downturn but solar cell conductive paste makers continue to see better profits. Taiwan-based Giga Solar, a silver, silver aluminum, and aluminum conductive paste maker, reported gross margin for ...
Global aluminum rolling and recycling company Novelis has broken ground on a $250m aluminum recycling and casting center at its Nachterstedt plant in Germany. The center will annually produce 400,000 metric tons of aluminum sheet ingot ...
Tags: aluminum recycling, Metallurgy, Energy
Netherlands-based Purac, a provider of lactic acid based bioplastics, has sponsored the Perpetual Plastic Project to show how to recycle Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) bioplastic. Purac bioplastics marketing director Fran ois Bie said the ...
A disastrous week in the Indian market left cash buyers, end buyers and all those involved in the industry reeling once again. It has been such a temperamental year in Alang that speculation has become a huge risk today - just when it seems ...
Tags: ship breaking industry, ship, steel, prices
The Peninsula Qatar reported that the Gulf region’s combined contribution to global aluminium production has grown to an estimated 12% to 13%. The region’s production capacity has grown substantially over the years and the Arab ...
Tags: Doha, Qatar, Gulf region, global aluminium production, production capacity
Closer partnerships between textile recyclers, local authorities and waste management companies can play a major role in diverting greater volumes of discarded clothing and household textiles from landfill, delegates at the UK’s ...
Tags: United Kingdom, Textile Recycling
The packaging giant has launched its biannual sustainability update entitled Mission Possible (26 July). Tetra Pak has set itself ambitious targets to double the global recycling rate of its cartons from 20% in 2010 to 40% by 2020. ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Carton Recycling Rates, recycle, packaging
Computerworld-Tablet trade-in queries plummeted by 45%when Apple introduced its new iPad Mini,hinting that the smaller Apple device is not significantly cannibalizing sales of the larger tablet,an electronics recycling firm said today. ...
Tags: iPad Mini, Tablet trade, brick-and-mortar, retailers
Claims by the Australian Food and Grocery Council that beverage prices have risen dramatically as a result of container deposit schemes have been found to be based on'weak methodology and poor data'by a senate inquiry. It also supported ...
Tags: Container
WAM reported that the Brazilian Aluminum Association and Associaçao Brasileira dos Fabricantes de Latas de Alta Reciclabilidade ABRALATAS, the Brazilian Association of Cans of High Recyclability inform that the country has recycled ...
Tags: Brazil, Recyclability, Beverage Can Recycling, recycling