Lightweight packaging board
29 May, 2009 bySnowcard Bleached Board with ECF, PEFC and ISO certification is a lighter weight board for packaging. It is two-side coated folding boxboard combining visual smoothness with high brightness and an equal white shade on both sides. Suitable for point-of-sale, paperback, food and beauty product packaging, folders, covers and more, the lightweight boards consume fewer raw materials, decrease transport volumes and produce less waste.
Greener networking
29 May, 2009 byLinksys, a division of Cisco, has reduced packaging for its consumer networking products and it has received Energy Star certified ratings on power adapters included with more than 30 of its products.
Greener networking
29 May, 2009A combined effort from a number of suppliers has resulted in the successful operation of a water reclamation scheme at Echuca, on the Murray River, north of Bendigo.
Greener networking
29 May, 2009Linksys, a division of Cisco, has reduced packaging for its consumer networking products and it has received Energy Star certified ratings on power adapters included with more than 30 of its products.
Greener networking
29 May, 2009Linksys, a division of Cisco, has reduced packaging for its consumer networking products and it has received Energy Star certified ratings on power adapters included with more than 30 of its products.
CIJ printer with ink system
27 May, 2009 byThe Linx 6900 Solver CIJ printer is claimed to able to reduce solvent usage by as much as 40%. It features a purpose-built ink system and software which adapts to the production requirements and uses solvent only as it is needed.
Lightweight wine bottles
27 May, 2009 byThe Lean+Green lightweight process is now available for 750 mL claret and burgundy bottles manufactured in French Green from the O-I Adelaide plant. Using modified designs and narrow neck press and blow (NNPB) technology, the bottles will be between 18 and 28% lighter than current offerings.
Carbon offset provider rated 'outstanding'
03 December, 2008Perth’s Southern Metropolitan Regional Council has been recognised as an outstanding carbon offset provider by Choice in an independent ranking.
Wastewater projects win international prize
28 May, 2008Two of Murdoch University’s PhD students have won international Huber Technology Prizes in Munich, Germany. The prize rewards ideas, concepts and results of research that are a contribution to the re-use of energy and valuable materials from wastewater.
Scholarship awarded
26 May, 2008Waikato University postgraduate student Lisa van den Berg is one of three recipients of a Dick and Mary Earle Scholarship in Technology for 2008. Lisa’s thesis investigates the bio-resins derived from waste proteins of the meat industry.
Conference gets government support
04 March, 2008Enviro 08, Australia’s Environmental and Sustainability Conference and Exhibition is set for Melbourne Exhibition Conference Centre 5 -7 May.
Next Big Thing Award 2008
28 February, 2008Clever innovators, inventors and creative small businesses can win over $50,000 in cash and prizes by entering Innovic’s Next Big Thing Award 2008 before applications close on 14 March 2008.
Environmental champions honoured
27 February, 2008Nominations are now open for the 2008 Green Ribbon Awards, which honour New Zealand’s environmental heroes, according to Environment Minister Trevor Mallard.
Turning waste cardboard into fuel
23 February, 2007CSIRO has developed an innovative solution to two very different problems confronting two industries in the remote community of King Island in the Bass Strait
Generating power from methane emissions
29 January, 2007A CSIRO technology called VAMCAT (Ventilation Air Methane Catalytic Turbine) is poised to take a sizeable bite out of methane emissions with a greenhouse effect equivalent to more than 237 million tonnes of carbon dioxide
