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Best Selling Soap Manufacturer Makes Statement in Support of Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011 WASHINGTON, July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, the top-selling natural brand of certified Fair Trade soap, announced its support for the H.R. 2359, The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011, a bill that would eliminate the most harmful chemicals from personal care products and require manufacturers and suppliers to fully disclose their product ingredients for the first time. Dr. Bronner's discloses all ingredients and does not use synthetic petrochemicals commonly found in most personal care products.
In Wake of BP Oil Spill, Consumers Want Bodycare Products Made without Petrochemicals: Organic Consumers Association Calls on Other Leading Retailers to Follow Whole Foods' Example WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), the nation's largest consumer group dedicated to organic integrity, is pleased the nation's largest natural products retailer Whole Foods Market is taking action to address widespread organic labeling fraud in personal care. Such brands as Avalon Organics, Nature's Gate and Giovanni make organic claims on products whose main cleansing and moisturizing ingredients are generally made without any organic material whatsoever and are usually composed in significant part from petrochemicals. Whole Foods staff should be commended...
...(1) Oil, petroleum products, petrochemicals, or liquefied natural gas cargo th...
HONG KONG, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- bioserie is first to market with a line of iPhone 4 covers that will give earth-conscious Apple device owners the protection they demand while using only plant based renewable resources in its production. bioserie's unique use of the latest in bioplastics technology offers considerably less greenhouse gas emissions in manufacturing and the prevention of environmental toxic pollution once the cover is discarded. The iPhone 4 cover is the newest addition to bioserie's existing line of "made of plants" covers for the iPhone 3G/3GS, iPod touch and iPod nano. The expansion of bioserie's line marks a significant step in the availability of cutting-edge biobased Apple accessories - a market dominated by plastic products that use petrochemicals derived from oi...
RISING oil and natural gas prices have created tension globally, creating concern that their continued increase may disrupt economies and create political vulnerability. Furthermore, supply fluctuation, consumer activism, gas emission and greenhouse gas taxes have also resulted in many countries no longer wanting to be dependent on oil- based and chemical- based raw materials, and are now looking positively at Industrial Biotechnology as an alternative and important avenue for solving their problems. Not as established as the agriculture (the first wave) and healthcare (the second wave) sectors in the biotechnology industry, Industrial Biotechnology is often referred to as the third wave of biotechnology. Industrial Biotechnology, also known as White Biotechnology, is the use of bio-pro...
... manufacturing of chemicals and chemical products (including pharmaceuticals) accounted for 11% of t...
IN line with efforts to upscale the manufacturing sector towards higher value-added activities, the Third Industrial Master Plan (IMP3) (2006- 2020) has targeted 12 industries in the manufacturing sector for further development and promotion. Deemed as strategically important in contributing to the greater growth of the manufacturing sector, the industries comprised six non-resource based and six resource-based industries. They non-resource-based industries are electrical and electronics (E&E), metals industry, transport equipment, machinery & equipment, medical devices, and textiles & apparel while the resource-based industries comprised petrochemicals, wood-based products, oil palm- based industry, food processing, rubber & rubber products, and pharmaceuticals.
If Interface Fabrics Group has its way, the textiles covering the next office chair you plunk down on will be made from a corn product rather than raw materials derived from petrochemicals. Playing a pivotal role in the development of environmentally friendly products, Interface's Guilford and Newport facilities are using Yankee ingenuity to turn acid fibers made from corn into textiles. Along with its support for agriculture, the company is an industrial leader in environmental stewardship.
Salt Lake-based Huntsman Corp., the fifth-biggest U.S. chemical maker, agreed Thursday to sell some U.S. assets to Texas Petrochemicals LP for $269 million to focus on more profitable specialty products. The plants in Port Neches, Texas, make butadiene, used to make rubber and nylon, and methyl tertiary butyl ether, a gasoline additive known as MTBE, Huntsman said Thursday in a statement. Huntsman announced a preliminary sale at $275 million in February. Texas Petrochemicals is based in Houston.
...Large Diameter Pipe From Japan. The products covered by this order are large diameter seamless ... the conveyance of water, steam, petrochemicals, chemicals, oil products, natural gas and other li...
...Hazardous substances?means petroleum products (petrochemicals) and chemicals that can produce bl...
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