As the environmental impact of existing construction and building materials comes under increasing scrutiny, the search for more eco-efficient solutions has intensified. Nanotechnology offers great potential in this area and is already being widely used to great success.
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Avery Dennison Corporation, a global leader in the label and packaging industry, won the Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE) 2013 Environmental Award in the Design for Sustainability category for its Bottle-to-Bottle Portfolio of labeling materials, which dramatically improves the recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
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Taiwan's Green Trade Project Office is bringing a delegation of exhibitors to participate in the 2013 FIEE trade show in Sao Paulo, Brazil, aiming to help Taiwan's electronics manufacturers seize the great opportunity for business in the run-up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Wind turbine gearboxes present major reliability issues, leading to great interest in the current development of gearless direct-drive wind energy systems. Offering high reliability, high efficiency and low maintenance, developments in these direct-drive systems point the way to the next generation of wind power, and Electrical drives for direct drive renewable energy systems is an authoritative guide to their design, development and operation.
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An independent research study commissioned by the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), revealed 65 percent of decision makers at Fortune 500 consumer product companies view packaging sustainability as a high priority. The survey was conducted by MindClick in January and February and included packaging decision makers from major consumer packaged goods companies.
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Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, supports the textile industry’s efforts toward sustainable freshwater management with the publishing of water-saving tips and technologies in a special edition of its “News Chat” newsletter.
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Last evening, Hilex Poly Co., an industry leading U.S. manufacturer and recycler of plastic bags, received the 2013 Society of Plastics Engineers Environmental Division's Award for Plastics Recycling Technologies and Applications.
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of a new report "Global Market for Emission Control Catalysts: National and Regional Regulations Drive the Global Market" to their offering.
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A key advance, newly reported by chemists from Brown and Yale Universities, could lead to a cheaper and more sustainable way to make acrylate, an important commodity chemical used to make materials from polyester fabrics to diapers.
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University of Oregon chemists say that ultra-thin films of nickel and iron oxides made through a solution synthesis process are promising catalysts to combine with semiconductors to make devices that capture sunlight ...
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