Aptar has launched a Sustainable Materials Task Force that addresses customer, consumer and regulatory expectations for sustainable product offerings. Sustainability is a key driver in the market today. Sustainability efforts are now ...
Ecolean is planning to showcase filling machines designed for liquid food industry at the upcoming Anuga FoodTec 2018 event to be held in Germany. Ever since 2000, when Ecolean first showcased its lightweight packaging solutions, the ...
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For second-quarter 2016, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA – which makes gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge) substrates and raw materials – has reported revenue of $20.5m, down slightly on $21m a year ...
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Atlanta based electric utility Georgia Power has received water discharge permit for the Vogtle nuclear expansion in Burke County near Waynesboro. Issued by the by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD), the approval was ...
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Dal-Tile recently completed the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) development process for all products manufactured in the company’s North American production facilities. With third party validation from PE International and ...
British Gypsum is making the selection of sustainable solutions simpler for customers following the introduction of its first batch of environmental product declarations (EPDs). The EPDs have been designed to give customers independently ...
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Zoetis recently unveiled new research that will help pork producers and meat packers produce wholesome pork with less environmental impact. The research is based on a life cycle assessment (LCA) conducted in the United States for ...
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Mohawk Group announced November as the company’s sustainability month. In observance of its inaugural sustainability month and ongoing sustainability practices, a number of key environmental initiatives are being unveiled throughout ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), developers of the global LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building certification program, and Underwriter Laboratories (UL), the world’s leading safety and ...
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J+J Flooring's Kinetex has been selected as one of BuildingGreen’s Top-10 products for the coming year by BuildingGreen, publisher of GreenSpec and Environmental Building News (EBN). The winners were announced over a live ...
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Shaw Industries Group, Inc. (Shaw) has finalized a Health Product Declaration (HPD) and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its EcoWorx carpet tile, the industry’s first fully recyclable, non-PVC carpet tile backing and the ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), developers of the global LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building certification program, and Underwriter Laboratories (UL), the world’s leading safety and ...
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The chairman of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) working group on whole building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) says he thinks it’s not if the glass industry officially embraces a specific Environmental Product ...
After signing an agreement in July with the Italian Ministry for the Environment to trial test a new methodology for calculating the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF) introduced by the ...
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Resilient flooring has grown from 13% to over 20% of the flooring market on a square footage basis over the last decade. In the last five years, it has been the fastest growing category, fueled in part by its frequent specification in ...
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