Industrial Goods
GE Expands Efficiency Offerings with $3.2bn Converteam Acquisition
GE’s energy division announced today that it will buy a roughly 90 percent, $3.2 billion stake in French electrification and automation company Converteam, expanding ...
Environmental Enforcement Roundup: AZZ, Hartley Farms, H. Krevit
Here's a roundup of the latest environmental enforcement stories.
Oregon-based farm and trucking company Hartley Farms and Valley Trucking has agreed to pay a $34,000 penalty ...
Honeywell Radioactive Waste Violations Lead to $11.8m Fine
Honeywell International has been sentenced to a $11.8 million fine after pleading guilty to violations involving radioactive material, only two days after signing a multi-million ...
Sustainable Consumption Can Lead to Sustainable Manufacturing
I recently attended a technical meeting in Europe on manufacturing, where the flames of green manufacturing have been flamed and ...
Tools for Assessing Lifecycle Impact
Or, are we "doing the right thing?"
The last couple of postings have focused on how to insure we can ...
USDA Biobased Labels Debut
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has launched a voluntary product certification for biobased commercial and industrial products.
The “USDA Certified Biobased Product” label will ...
AK Steel Clears Smoke Over Ohio Factory
AK Steel has spent $5.2 million from 2007 to last year on environmental capital investments. Environmental compliance costs for the same three-year period were almost ...
Green Chemistry Can Play a Significant Role in Manufacturing
So-called green chemists use all the tools and training of traditional chemistry, but instead of ending up with toxins that must be treated ...
DOE Awards First Industrial Energy Certifications
Three Texas plants have become the first in the nation to win a new Department of Energy (DOE) certification for energy management in the industrial ...
Biomass to Power Dow’s Aratu Complex
The Dow Chemical Company's largest manufacturing facility in Brazil, the Aratu Complex, has plans to add biomass to its energy mix. Upon completion in December ...
In Packaging Sustainability, Half a Tree is Better than None
On my way to work every morning, I pass a tree which appears to have suffered a lightning strike, and I admit ...
Cummins Sustainability Report: $2m in Savings
Cummins announced that it had generated $2 million in savings from reducing waste and conserving water, electricity and natural gas, according to the company’s ...
Industrial Firms in Rich Countries Profit from Carbon Offsets
The European Union's policy for carbon offsets is providing higher profits to industrial companies in rich countries and needs to be updated to deliver clean ...
Buffalo Coke Plant Reduces Benzene Emissions
The Tonawanda Coke plant in Buffalo, New York, has succeeded in reducing its benzene emissions, but tests at one air monitor location showed it is ...
NC E-Waste Recycling Paid by Manufacturers
North Carolina has a new electronic waste bill that would require manufacturers to pay for recycling old gadgets, according to a Bloomberg report. The ...
EPA Finalizes GHG Reporting Rules for Four Emissions Sources
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing rules that require underground coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial waste landfills and magnesium production facilities to report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under its national ...
GE: Ecomagination Revenues Reach $18 Billion in 2009
General Electric announced that revenues from its Ecomagination products reached $18 billion last year from the sale of more than 90 products, up ...
Ball Sustainability Report: GHG Down 13%
Ball Corporation announced that it has reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 13 percent since 2005, according to the company’s second annual sustainability report.
The ...
Gerdau Ameristeel Cuts Energy Use 18%
Gerdau Ameristeel has reduced its energy usage at its Knoxville, Tennessee plant by 18 percent and reduced its natural gas use by 47 percent after ...
Unifi Integrates Sustainable Supply Chain
Unifi announced that it is expanding its commitment to sustainable practices and initiatives with new investments toward the backwards integration into the supply chain for ...
