Tag Archives: Sustainable Manufacturing

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Adds Materials Web Tool

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has launched the Materials Sustainability Index (MSI) web tool as a new component to the Higg Index suite of sustainability tools for the apparel and footwear industries. The interactive platform visualizes and compares the quantitative … Continue reading

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Manufacturers Hide Environmental Success

Manufacturers and retailers may be holding back on communicating their sustainability successes to customers, new research suggests. More than three-quarters of industry executives from brand manufacturing and retail have concerns about “greenwashing” backlash and half mentioned a lack of consistency … Continue reading

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Coke to Improve Water Efficiency 25%

The Coca-Cola Company has committed to improving water efficiency in its manufacturing operations by 25 percent by 2020 compared with its 2010 baseline. The company announced the new goal yesterday and also released its 2013 Water Stewardship and Replenish Report, … Continue reading

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Waste Management Launches Sustainable Products Venture

Waste Management and sustainable designer William McDonough have launched a sustainable product and package design company to reduce consumer goods’ waste impact. The Waste Management McDonough Sustainable Innovation Collaborative aims to help producers, manufacturers, retailers and suppliers improve the recyclability … Continue reading

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Capturing Carbon on the Cheap

Some of the processes being looked at as cheaper ways of capturing carbon dioxide emissions include a government-led large-scale implementation at a power plant, a installation at a natural gas production facility and rolling out the technology to other industrial facilities, according … Continue reading

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Ford Fusion Uses Recycled-Materials Fabrics

Ford Fusion is the first global vehicle program to use seat fabric made from recycled material, with the potential to recycle enough plastic bottles and post-industrial waste to make 1.5 million yards of fabric annually, the automaker says. The amount … Continue reading

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Air Filtering System Reduces Particleboard Factory Emissions

A Carter Holt Harvey particleboard factory in the Gympie region of Queensland, Australia, will install a multi-million dollar air cleaning system that will reduce its drier particulate emissions to below 50 grams per cubic meter, which the company says will … Continue reading

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Automation Improves Efficiency, Cuts Waste

Process improvement and operational efficiency lead to waste reduction — which is the crux of sustainability, a SustainablePlant article says. Automation is key to improving performance speed, which is also a major driver in improving operational efficiency, writes author Jordan … Continue reading

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Leveraging Sustainability, Social Value Creation for Improved Business Results

When reading the daily headlines, it is not uncommon to find news about a company behaving badly. Check today’s top stories and there is probably an investigation, an executive gaffe or a serious disaster which has both business and societal … Continue reading

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VW Heads Microcontroller Energy Efficiency Standards Group

Volkswagen will chair an expanded working group to establish an energy-efficiency benchmark for microcontrollers aimed at making automotive end products more energy aware. Semiconductor vendors including Freescale, Fujitsu, Infineon, Microchip, NXP, Renesas, STMicroelectronics and TI have also joined the Embedded … Continue reading

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