Industrial Goods
EPA Wants 16 Chemicals Added to Toxics Release Inventory
For the first time in a decade, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to add more chemicals to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) ...
ArcelorMittal Saves $200,000 Annually By Idling Machinery During Production Delays
ArcelorMittal's specialty rolling mill plant in Conshohocken has implemented efficiency improvements such as automated systems that idle electrical machinery during production delays, saving the plant ...
China Largest ‘Exporter’ of CO2 Emissions in Traded Goods
More than one-third of carbon-dioxide emissions linked to the consumption of goods and services in many developed countries are emitted outside their borders, according to a ...
Energy Intelligence Results in 15% Efficiency Boost for Manufacturers
The Aberdeen Group has identified Energy Intelligence, the heart of EPS' energy and carbon reduction solutions, as a best practice approach to reducing energy use in ...
PGI to Reduce Carbon Footprint, Water Use, Solid Waste 10% by 2014
Polymer Group (PGI), a global manufacturer of nonwoven materials, has set several goals for 2014 including a 10 percent per square meter reduction in carbon footprint, ...
Olof Kolte on Sustainable Industrial Design
Olof Kolte is a civil engineer and designer working as a designer and part time senior lecturer at Lund University, School ...
EPA Rules to Impact Manufacturers, Utilities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two separate actions that could significantly impact several industries including power and water utilities, reports WaterWorld.
The EPA has ...
DOE Awards $155M to Make Industrial Sector More Energy Efficient
Energy Efficiency Remains Untapped in the Industrial Sector
The industrial sector's energy savings have remained untapped by many existing publicly-funded energy efficiency programs, according to a new report by the American Council for ...
Study Finds Smart Irrigation Controllers Not So Smart
Tests of "smart" irrigation controllers found that most of the devices currently on the market were not as smart as advertised, according to a new study, ...
Land Reuse, Recycling Aid in GHG Reductions
Strategies focused on land reuse practices - including the reuse of formerly contaminated sites, recycling, waste reduction, and smart growth - can reduce greenhouse gas ...
Arclin Cuts VOC Emissions by 70%
While some manufacturers are voluntarily working to reduce volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions as part of their environmental initiatives, others are being forced due to environmental ...
Chemicals Industry Works Toward Safe Chemicals Management by 2020
Leading global chemical companies, the United Nations, along with other stakeholders, recently met in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the chemical industry's progress to meet its ...
Stimulus Funds Boost Trane’s Energy-Efficiency Business
Aimed at lowering the amount of energy needed to power the blowers and distributors of commercial and institutional air conditioning systems, Trane has rolled out its ...
Siemens Expects $8B In Green Tech Contracts from Stimulus
Siemens AG expects to win new orders of around $21 billion in the next three fiscal years (2010 to 2012), which will be generated by ...
Pew Center Launches Online Climate TechBook
The Pew Center has released an online resource -- called the Climate TechBook -- that delivers information on technologies to help reduce greenhouse gas ...
Cap-and-Trade Financial Risk Small For Most, Disaster for Some
The financial risk to companies in the S&P 500 would vary greatly under a cap-and trade program requiring the purchase of carbon emission credits, according to ...
Steel Industry Faces Carbon Hurdle
The U.S. steel industry in general, and U.S. Steel Corp., AK Steel, ArcelorMittal SA and OAO Severstal in particular, which operate carbon-intensive integrated mills, could be ...
Recession Drives Down U.S. CO2 Emissions 2.8%
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. declined by 2.8 percent in 2008, according to a Energy Information Administration flash estimate. That's the largest annual ...
Diamond Delivers Greener Packaging
Diamond Packaging is using recyclable and renewable source materials and wind power to create a greener package for Highland Lilac Perfume.
The Rochester, N.Y.-based company designed ...
