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"Sustainability""“ in Latin, sustinere "“ translates into "holding up". Recently, "holding up" against the stream of economic problems and environmental threats, seems to require Herculean strength. Nobody knows these better than the small business owner. Natural Clothing Company and Element Eco Wear, two small businesses, separated by hundreds of miles, decided independently that not only they can be successful helping the planet by promoting organic clothing but also based their...

Three custom Benecelâ„¢ hypromellose (HPMC) grades for better controlled release pharmaceuticals from Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients are being highlighted at the Excipient Fest Americas trade show May 10-11 in Baltimore, Md. Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) April 18, 2011 Controlling the release of active pharmaceutical ingredients is now more easily attainable thanks to Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH). Three custom Benecelâ„¢...

Premium "At Home" Spa Treatment Helps Correct Uneven Tone And Nourishes Skin With Ingredients That Hydrate and Repair Washington Township, NJ (PRWEB) April 11, 2011 Bel Mondo Beauty today announced the availability of the Bio Cellulose Skin Lightener Mask -- a premium facial sheet mask that brightens skin tone while working to lessen the appearance of dark spots and hyperpigmentation. The mask is infused with 5 active ingredients, including niacinamide, melaclear-2, and licorice root...

SHENZHEN, China, March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Winner Medical Group Inc. (Nasdaq: WWIN), ("Winner Medical"), a leading manufacturer of medical dressings, medical disposables and non-woven fabric made from 100% natural PurCotton® products in China, proudly announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Winner Industries (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., was the only medical device manufacturing company to win the Circular Economy Project Award for the year 2010. Winner Medical won the award...

Premium Facial Treatment Boasts Superior Bio Structure That Excels at Transferring Nutrients Deep into Skin Structure Blackwood, NJ (PRWEB) March 14, 2011 Bel Mondo Beauty today announced the availability of the Bio Cellulose Anti-Aging Mask -- a premium facial sheet mask made through advanced biotechnology processes. The initial product offering from Bel Mondo Beauty, the Bio Cellulose Anti-Aging Mask boasts a natural nanofiber structure that is 200 times finer and four times stronger...

Nanoscale whiskers from sea creatures could grow human muscle tissueMinute whiskers of nanoscale dimensions taken from sea creatures could hold the key to creating working human muscle tissue, University of Manchester researchers have discovered.Scientists have found that cellulose from tunicates, commonly known as sea squirts, can influence the behavior of skeletal muscle cells in the laboratory.These nanostructures are several thousand times smaller than muscle cells and are the smallest...

FEICHENG, China, March 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Ruitai International Holdings Co., Ltd. ("China Ruitai", "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: CRUI), a manufacturer and distributor of cellulose ether additives for use in the production of pharmaceuticals, construction materials, PVC products, foods and beverages and cosmetics, today announced that it will present at the Rodman & Renshaw Annual China Investment Conference, to be held March 6-8, 2011, at the Le Royal...

BRUSSELS, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- World dissolving pulp demand reached its peak in 1975 at 5.3 million tones. It decreased over the next three decades, with a dramatic decline in the early 1990s due to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Demand reached its lowest point in 2000 at 3.2 million tonnes, but has increased dramatically over the last decade. Last year, demand for dissolving pulp again reached its pre-crisis level from 1990 of 4.5 million tonnes. Whether this...

Rice University researchers find feeding crops too heavily bad for biofuel, environmentRice University scientists and their colleagues have found that when growing corn crops for ethanol, more means less.A new paper in today's online edition of the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science and Technology shows how farmers can save money on fertilizer while they improve their production of feedstock for ethanol and alleviate damage to the environment.The research has...

From cellulose to sugarFood versus fuel -- this rivalry is gaining significance against a backdrop of increasingly scarce farmland and a concurrent trend towards the use of bio-fuels. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are helping to resolve this rivalry: They are working to effectively utilize residual field crop material "“ which has been difficult to use thus far "“ for the industrial production of bio-ethanol. They took a closer look at bacteria that transform...