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Packing foam now entering the marketplace is engineered from mushrooms and agricultural wasteA new packing material that grows itself is now appearing in shipped products across the country.The composite of inedible agricultural waste and mushroom roots is called Mycobondâ„¢, and its manufacture requires just one eighth the energy and one tenth the carbon dioxide of traditional foam packing material.And unlike most foam substitutes, when no longer useful, it makes great compost in the...
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- GaiaRecycle(TM), LLC, an industry-leading global provider of organic waste recycling systems, today announced the introduction of its newly designed website at http://www.gaiarecycle.com. Designed and built from the ground up, the GaiaRecycle new website features a dramatic appearance coupled with uniformity and an easy-to-navigate format ideal for learning about organic waste recycling solutions. Beginning with the http://www.gaiarecycle.com home...
BEIJING, July 22 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co. Limited (Nasdaq: FFHL) ("Fuwei Films" or the "Company"), a manufacturer and distributor of high-quality BOPET plastic films located in China, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Fuwei Films (Shandong) Co. Ltd. ("Shandong Fuwei"), has successfully completed the development of a new dry film product. The test sample has passed the strict examination by Hitachi Chemical Shanghai and Asahi ASEI....
NORTHFIELD, Ill., July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stepan Company (NYSE: SCL) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Stepan Europe S.A.S., has acquired all of the shares of Alfa Systems Sp. z o.o. from its shareholders, Chemitex Holding Limited and Chemovil Holdings Limited. The purchase includes Alfa Systems' new plant located in Brzeg Dolny, just outside of Wroclaw, Poland with 25,000 metric tons of polyester polyol capacity and 15,000 metric tons of polyurethane systems...
BEIJING, July 14 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: FFHL) ("Fuwei Films" or the "Company"), a manufacturer and distributor of high-quality BOPET plastic films located in China, today announced that it has seen a significant increase in demand from customers outside of China in the second quarter of 2010. Overseas sales in April, May and June increased over 200% compared to the same period of last year. The unit sales price for commodity and...
SINGAPORE, July 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- ICIS pricing, the trusted price reporting service for the global chemical industry, has extended its series of weekly Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) reports to include the Middle East market. ICIS's first PET price assessment for the Middle East covers spot prices for bottle grade on quotes for FOB and CFR Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The new report captures industry price trends and the key factors influencing them, as well as updates...
DALLAS, June 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The packaged food industry has seen a tremendous evolution in terms of the technologies used for packaging. All the recent packaging technologies are devised keeping in mind the convenience of the consumers and the preservation and safety of food items. With rising average annual incomes, better home cooking facilities, and a shift of people towards supermarket or hypermarkets are the major factors driving this market. However, the market for canned...
BEIJING, June 24 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co. Limited (Nasdaq: FFHL) ("Fuwei" or "the Company"), a manufacturer and distributor of high-quality BOPET plastic films located in China, today announced that Fuwei Films (Shandong) Co., Ltd. ("Fuwei Shandong"), the Company's operating subsidiary, has applied for a new BOPET films patent for heat shrinkage film which has been reviewed by the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China. Heat shrinkage...
MINNEAPOLIS, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Cargill will showcase an innovative new texturizing ingredient, the CitriTex(TM) stabilizer blend*, in a delicious, reduced-fat muffin prototype at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Food Expo July 18-20 in Chicago. This stabilizer blend allows up to a 50 percent replacement of oil or fat in bakery products, while maintaining the taste and texture of a full-fat product, and helping food manufacturers optimize formulation costs. "Reduced-fat foods...
GREENSBORO, N.C., June 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Unifi, Inc. (NYSE: UFI) announced that it is expanding its commitment to sustainable practices and initiatives with new investments toward the backwards integration into the supply chain for recycled products and in a new joint venture focused on renewable energy. As environmental stewardship and sustainability become more important to companies around the world, these new investments will solidify Unifi as a leader in green initiatives....
