UK-based frozen food retailer Iceland Foods has introduced two new ready meal products in renewable packaging, as part of its effort to reduce the use of plastic for packaging. The company has packaged its new ready meal products in Stora ...
Tags: Meal Products, Renewable Packaging
Valmet has completed the annual shutdown of Klabin Monte Alegre paper mill in Brazil. The company wrapped up the entire shutdown project from planning and execution to a safe start-up. The shutdown was happened between 24 April and 5 ...
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UK-based Warren has expanded its graphical and carton board grade product portfolio with the addition of StoraEnso’s new Ensocoat board. Ensocoat is StoraEnso’s graphical solid bleached sulphate (SBS) board, which was recently ...
Tags: Luxury Packaging, carton board
Stora Enso has unveiled upgraded Ensocoat carton board for luxury brands and graphical industry at this year’s Interpack event in Germany. The company has added more whiteness and shade to the upgraded carton board, helping ...
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Global renewable energy generation capacity increased by 161 gigawatts (GW) in 2016, making the strongest year ever for new capacity additions, according to data released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Renewable ...
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The amount of sugarcane crushed in Brazil's Parana state in the first 15 days of November was down 31% year on year to 1.61 million mt, the Bioenergy Producers Association of Parana (Alcopar) said. Parana is one of the sugarcane producing ...
Praj Industries, global process solutions Company has contracted 60,000 LPD project for production of fuel ethanol and premium grade extra neutral alcohol (Beverage Alcohol) from Kakira Sugars. Kakira Sugars is a leading sugar and power ...
The greenhouse gas that is twenty times more harmful than carbon dioxide, methane, may become the feedstock for a material that helps reduce our dependency on plastic in its current form. Methane, as you know, is generated by the natural ...
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Darling Ingredients, a global developer and producer of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients, creating a wide range of ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, ...
Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab) What is nanoparticle analysis and what biomedical applications does it have? Nanoparticle analysis is a very important field. Basically, we live in a world that is ...
Tags: Microfluidics, Microscopy, Nanoparticle, Protein
Dyadic International, Inc. , a global biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of enzymes and other proteins for the bioenergy, bio-based chemical, biopharmaceutical and industrial enzyme industries, ...
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Using a plant-derived chemical, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a process for creating a concentrated stream of sugars that's ripe with possibility for biofuels. "With the sugar platform, you have ...
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Miscanthus, above, is one of two bioenergy grasses being examined in a new University of Missouri Extension publication Producers considering growing switchgrass or miscanthus as bioenergy crops can gain some financial advice from a new ...
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In the Arizona desert, the first U.S. commercial plantings of Giant King Grass are being established – for use as livestock feed first, and hopefully as a renewable energy feedstock in the future. That's according to Carl Kukkonen, ...
Tags: Energy Crop, Livestock Feed
Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that an enzyme from a microorganism first found in the Valley of Geysers on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia in 1990 can digest cellulose ...