It's a staggering figure – around 2.9m tonnes of food and drink is wasted each year, according to Wrap. It's a number that's been troubling politicians and environmentalists but it is a problem that packaging can help tackle. And ...
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Packaging is increasingly recognised as a vital weapon in the fight against food waste. Philip Chadwick reports on how the flexible plastics sector is innovating to play its part in packaging's biggest challenge It's a staggering figure ...
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At the new copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) facility of the Solliance collaboration platform in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the first CIGS solar cells have been fabricated, demonstrating solar energy conversion efficiency of ...
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When the Chinese energy giant Hanergy decided last week to buy Miasole,a Silicon Valley-based thin-film solar company,at less than a tenth the amount venture capitalists had invested in the firm,it could have been making a savvy move.Though ...
Following the investment of 25 million euros in Beneq by RUSNANO in April 2012, and as a part of its planned expansion into existing and emerging markets, Beneq is opening a subsidiary company in Russia. The company’s operations in ...
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Manz AG of Reutlingen,Germany,which supplies integrated production lines for crystalline silicon solar cells and thin-film solar modules(as well as lines flat-panel displays),says its integrated production line for CIGS thin-film solar ...
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Deposition Sciences,Inc.(DSI),manufacturer of highly durable thin film optical coatings,introduces Low Temperature Shift Infrared(IR)Bandpass Filters for critical applications that require minimal fluctuation in center wavelength(CWL).The ...
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MiaSolé of Santa Clara, CA, USA, which was founded in 2001 to make copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic panels, says that the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) ...
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Axuntek Solar Energy Co Ltd of Pingtung City,Taiwan has announced its new IEC-certified copper indium gallium(di)selenide(CIGS)thin film solar cell modules,which use DuPont PV5400 series ionomer encapsulant. Picture:Axuntek's new ...
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