Tag: sustainability
Europe: Researchers win prize for drying technology
Drying is used in many industrial processes, for example in food production, and drying processes account for a substantial part of energy consumption in...
Europe: Program develops green, biodegradable packages
Aimplas Plastic Technology Centre in Spain has created barrier, multilayer and transparent packages with a cost 25% lower than conventional ones, with a lower...
Americas: Crown to reduce energy consumption
By the end of 2020, Crown aims to reduce energy consumption by 5% per billion standard units of production from 2015 levels.
In the same...
Americas: General Mills, Organic Valley to help in certified organic transition
General Mills and Organic Valley have entered into a sourcing partnership that will help about 20 dairy farms add around 3,000 acres to organic...
Americas: Mondelez International advances well on environmental goals
Mondelez International says it has exceeded nearly all of its 2015 environmental footprint goals and has set more aggressive 2020 targets to fight the...
Africa: Pentair, partners open solar-powered community site
Pentair joins The Coca-Cola Company, Ericsson, Medshare, Phillips, Solarkiosk and TIGO Rwanda to open the flagship solar-powered Ekocenter in Ruhunda, Rwanda.
The site was designed...
Americas: SIG carton packs to don FSC logo
With a global network of cardboard suppliers who are certified according to the criteria of the ForestStewardship Council (FSC), from August 2016, 100% SIG...
Asia Pacific: Green packaging film derived from BASF technology
Southeast Asian film manufacturer A.J. Plast has developed biaxial-oriented polyamide (BOPA) films that adopted BASF’s Ultramid biomass balance polyamide, which is derived from renewable...
Americas: Enactus announces global food loss, waste competition
Enactus board member and Brambles CEO Tom Gorman launches global initiative, 1 Race 2 End Waste, to reduce food loss and waste in developing...
Europe: Dupont’s plant in Denmark to go green
The DuPont Nutrition & Health plant in Grindsted, Denmark, will become virtually carbon dioxide neutral in 2017 when the plant's large coal boiler is...