Scottish Materials Brokerage Service is to announce its first waste and recycling contracts including long-term deals for glass recycling. The contracts with duration ranging from seven to ten years will be issued for recycling of ...
Tags: glass recycling, cans, plastic bottles
Vegware, a foodservice packaging provider, has expanded its product range with the introduction of a new Tasting Notes collection for street food packaging. The new compostable plastic-free eco range includes neutral-toned coffee cups, ...
Tags: foodservice packaging, recycled materials, compostable sugar sticks
Jurlique has switched to using plastic tube, started lightweighting its glass packaging, and driven a re-use system which saves 1000 shippers a year. PKN reports on the skin care company's latest initiatives. Since the Jurlique brand was ...
Procter & Gamble (P&G) Fabric Care has declared a green drive deploying recycled packaging via Post Consumer Recyclate (PCR) and making 230 million bottles out of it for flagship brands, such as Ariel, Dash, Lenor and Unstoppables. In its ...
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Producer and marketer of recycled nylon fibres Aquafil has entered into a partnership with Outerknown, a new menswear apparel brand founded by 11 time world champion surfer Kelly Slater. An Aquafil press release informed that ...
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Italian company Fulgar, world leader in the production of nylon and covered yarns, has changed to a more contemporary and representative image to draw attention to the raw material - Fulgar Italian yarn - from which a wide range of fabrics ...
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US based synthetic yarn producer, Unifi, Inc. said it is expanding polyester texturing capacity in the US and Central America to support growing demand for synthetic yarn in the NAFTA and CAFTA regions. Unifi is expanding capacity at ...
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US-based environmentally conscious bottled-water company EARTH2O will use recycled material sourced from Orpet to create a closed-loop manufacturing system to infinitely reuse Oregon’s recycled goods. EARTH2O is considered to be ...
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ShanghaiTex 2015 which runs from June 15-18 June, 2015 will have seven theme zones spread across nine exhibition halls over 103,500 square meters of exhibition area. The Knitting and Hosiery Machinery Zone located in Hall W1 and W2 will ...
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The Department of Resources Engineering under National Cheng Kung University in southern Taiwan has developed a method to separate high-purity silicon and silicon carbide from silicon slurry, a waste from making crystalline silicon solar ...
Often considered a throw-in, an afterthought, underlayment for new hard surface glue-down, nail-down and floating floors in residential and commercial installations is anything but. Underlayment that is well matched to the floor covering ...
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Baltimore--Niche magazine has named the finalists for its 2015 awards for excellence in fine craft, which includes various categories for jewelry design. Judging is based on three main criteria: technical excellence in both surface ...
Consumer goods giants Procter & Gamble (P&G) has expanded its sustainability goals to conserve resources, protect environment and improve social conditions. As a part of its efforts towards sustaining environment, it will also try to ...
Tags: P&G, Recycled Resin, Packaging
RadiciGroup companies Noyfil SA and Noyfil SpA have chosen the highest level of transparency by adopting the UNI 11505:2013 standard, for measuring and declaring recycled material content of their r-Radyarn and r-Starlight yarns, made from ...
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FutureMark Alsip, a company that makes coated publication and printing papers from recycled materials, will indefinitely place its mill in idle mode due to challenging market conditions in the North American coated paper market. The ...
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