Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to extend the food embargo imposed by the country on Western food products until the end of December 2017. The ban was first introduced by Russia in the summer of 2014 on a range of ...
Researchers from Bio-on, an Italian company engaged in the bioplastic sector, and the University of Tampere in Finland have created new biodegradable material using paper and bioplastic for food packaging. The development is the result ...
The European Commission's European Research Council (ERC) has granted €2.5m to professor Mircea Guina of the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) to apply new technology in solar cell ...
Finland based VTT Technical Research Centre, Aalto University and Tampere University of Technology are together developing novel recycled textile fibres in the Design World of Cellulose project, a major technological scheme of Tekes - the ...
Pressure sensitive label materials supplier UPM Raflatac has decided to invest around €13m in a new coating line at its self-adhesive labelstock factory in Nowa Wies, Poland. The investment will allow the company to increase the ...
Tags: Coating Line, label materials
A research group at Biocenter Oulu in Finland has identified a mechanism related to a transcription factor that binds much more strongly onto a particular SNP variant, thereby initiating a genetic programme which enhances prostate cancer ...
Tags: prostate cancer, proliferation, metastasis, SNP variations, mechanism
Finnish researchers found repairing meniscal cartilage in the knee is no more effective than a placebo and about 500,000 U.S. surgeries may be unnecessary. Adjunct Professor Teppo Jarvinen of the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki ...
The combination of strong design competence and cutting-edge cellulose-based technologies can result in new commercially successful brands. The aim is for fibre from wood-based biomass to replace both cotton production, which burdens the ...
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Advenira Enterprises Inc., a developer of Solution Derived Nano-composite (SDN™) coating technology, today announced it has received notice from the United States Patent and Trademark office of issuance of patent US 8,506,709. This ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, coating
Charles Bostick of Seele Sedak & Co. used the final day of Glass Performance Days (GPD), which took place last week in Tampere, Finland, to detail the latest in glass technology and projects completed over the last two years. He noted that ...
Glaston has closed deals valued at around EUR 4.8 million with the Columbian company Tecnoglass for four Glaston FC500™ flat tempering machines. The orders are a follow-up to sales of FC500™ machines made in 2011 and 2012. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The Board of the Finnish Flat Glass Association unanimously voted Jorma Vitkala as Glass Builder of the Year 2013 for his achievements as the initiator and organizer of Glass Performance Days, the world's largest glass industry conference ...
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The Board of the Finnish Flat Glass Association, Suomen Tasolasiyhdistys ry, has unanimously voted Jorma Vitkala as Glass Builder of the Year 2013, for his achievements as the initiator and organizer of Glass Performance Days (GPD). Among ...
Tags: Glass Builder, Glass
Finding a way to truly temper extremely thin glass has posed a challenge to the glass processing industry. Either the solutions have been too cost-prohibitive or then the end glass products have been of subpar quality. We have now developed ...
Tags: GlastonAir, Glass, Glass Applications
Measure and reduce tempered glass iridescence We’re all familiar with the spots or streaks that show up on glass surfaces. This is especially true when there is a high degree of light polarization, with glass installations close to ...