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China Planning Better TCM Nonprofit Hospitals
Apr 30, 2019China is planning more and better nonprofit hospitals specializing in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in a bid to rapidly develop the country's TCM industry. A comprehensive reform will focus on State-owned TCM hospitals at county and ...
Tags: Chinese medicine, TCM industry
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The GIA's Forays into Diamond Tracking
Apr 30, 2019What business does a gemological laboratory have telling stories about diamonds? That was the unspoken question Matt Crimmin had to answer in his presentations at JCK Las Vegas earlier this month. As vice president of lab operations for ...
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Sappi North America Joins The Recycling Partnership to Improve Recycling Efforts
Mar 2, 2018Sappi North America, a producer and supplier of diversified paper and packaging products, has joined as a new funding partner of The Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit that applies corporate funding to improve recycling efforts in ...
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STIHL and Goodwill Industries Win 2017 Excellence in Reusable Packaging Award
Sep 8, 2017The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) has announced that STIHL Inc. and Goodwill Industries International are the winners of the 2017 Excellence in Reusable Packaging award. Two award categories were established in 2017: one to ...
Tags: Packaging, Reusable Packaging
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Impossible Foods Passes Safety Testing
Aug 14, 2017Impossible Foods says that it has passed important milestones for food safety, including a unanimous expert-panel affirmation of the safety of a key ingredient used in its products. A panel of food safety and allergy experts at three ...
Tags: Impossible Foods, food safety
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Dow Introduces Grant Program to Increase Plastics Recycling
Jul 12, 2017The Dow Chemical Company has partnered with national nonprofit, Keep America Beautiful, to award two $50,000 grants for organizations to establish Hefty EnergyBag programs in their communities. The program is an innovative approach to ...
Tags: Dow, Plastics Recycling
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Deschutes Brewery Unveils Plans to Open Tasting Room in Virginia, US
Apr 19, 2017Deschutes Brewery has announced plans to build a tasting room in downtown Roanoke in the US state of Virginia. The Oregon-headquartered brewery, which announced it will be creating an east coast facility in Roanoke last year, is looking ...
Tags: Deschutes Brewery, craft beer
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Ford and Toyota Set up SmartDeviceLink Consortium
Jan 16, 2017Ford Motor and Toyota Motor are establishing SmartDeviceLink Consortium, a nonprofit organization working to manage an open source software platform with the goal of giving consumers more choice in how they connect and control their ...
Tags: Ford Motor, Toyota
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BYD Launches New Electric Garbage Truck
Nov 25, 2016Chinese-backed electric vehicle developer BYD America has launched the industry’s first all-electric, long-range electric garbage truck, a project jointly developed with Wayne Engineering, the Iowa-based refuse industry equipment ...
Tags: Electric Garbage Truck, BYD
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Microsoft and Elon Musk's Openai Are Teaming up to Advance Artificial Intelligence
Nov 17, 2016Microsoft has announced it will be partnering with the Elon Musk-backed OpenAI initiative in a bid to make "significant contributions to advance the field of AI". As part of its stated mission to 'democratise AI', Microsoft will work ...
Tags: Microsoft, Artificial Intelligence
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Samsung Pay Gets a Rewards Program, Apple Pay Adds Charitable Donations
Nov 16, 2016There’s been a pair of interesting developments in the world of mobile payments on Monday; with Samsung announcing a rewards program and Apple revealing making it easier to give to charity. First up, Samsung Pay users in the United ...
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Idaho Foodbank receives $90,000 grant from Walmart Foundation
Oct 13, 2016Grant will support food bank’s school Backpack, School Pantry, Picnic in the Park and Cooking Matters programs BOISE, Idaho (Oct. 6, 2016) — This week, the Idaho Foodbank celebrated receiving a $90,000 grant from the Walmart ...
Tags: Grant, food bank, Walmart Foundation
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Food for Thought: Focusing Minds by Fighting Hunger
Oct 13, 2016Across America, kids are settling back into school routines. They are making new friends, trying new activities, and taking on new subjects to learn. But there’s something else that happens this time of year: many children also ...
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Apple v. Samsung Heads to Supreme Court: What You Need to Know
Oct 12, 2016The biggest patent case to hit the modern tech world is back again. Apple and Samsung will appear before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to argue why their opponent was wrong when it came to a patent case from 2012. This is the first time ...
Tags: US Supreme Court, Apple, patent case, Samsung
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ICTI CARE and BSR Outline Plans to Advance Women's Empowerment in Global Supply Chains
Oct 9, 2016The two aim to implement women’s empowerment strategies at toy factories in India, from preserving women’s health rights to ensuring equal pay. ICTI CARE has teamed with BSR to advance women’s empowerment in global ...
