Sentences with phrase «by the plastics industry»

The panel said that the FDA had only considered studies financed by the plastics industry and had ignored evidence of the potential harm from BPA.
But it considered only studies that were financed by the plastics industry, ignoring research that pointed to its potential dangers.
But the agency only considered studies that had been financed by the plastics industry.
Critics of the FDA's assessment point out that it was based on just two limited studies, both of them funded by the plastics industry and denounced by many independent scientists.
The widespread mobilization against plastic bags has sparked a counterattack by the plastics industry, which was slow to react to the rising tide of negative sentiment among consumers.

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The plastic - recycling industry is expected to top $ 56 billion by 2024.
Whether or not we realize it, researchers are coming up with new ways to create and use plastics that could benefit the plastics industry — as well as society and the environment — by reducing the costs of consumer goods, making renewable energy more available and reducing plastic waste.
They were founded at a time when the efficiency of the traditional industries was low: e-commerce gained massive user number because classical retail was underdeveloped; delivery companies expanded because of the unreliability of China Post; healthcare apps gained momentum because of the inefficiencies of the healthcare system; mobile payments took the population by storm because plastic never had time to gain traction.
«The cosmetic - surgery industry in Colombia is very well developed with many excellent surgeons who are certified by the SCCP (Colombian Plastic Surgery Association),» says Nancy Kiernan, IL Colombia Correspondent.
A new report published by the Flexible Packaging Association has shed light on the hygiene risks of using flexible plastic packaging in the beauty industry.
The Chinese Packaging Industry is currently growing at a rate of 6.2 %, with Paper & Board accounting for the largest share (42.5 %), followed by Plastics (41.1 %), Metal (11.7 %), and Glass (3.6 %).
The highest share of the Chilean packaging industry is taken by Plastic packaging which was valued at CLP896.1 billion in 2014.
The Spanish packaging industry as a whole (covering all Paper & Board, Plastics, Metal, and Glass materials) grew by 2.7 % in 2014 and reached EUR11.1 billion.
The United Kingdom's Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has issued a press release in response to a BBC article about dirty returnable plastic crates (RPCs) used by retailer Asda for home delivery of groceries (http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37847968).
Key players in the plastic pallet industry will grow their market share by introducing new technologies and improved designs as well as by collaborating with smaller manufacturers to gain a regional foothold in new territories.
The reason for these industries opting to modernize using plastic pallets concerns increased need to maintain cleanliness, as demanded by FSMA.
A recent report by Persistence Market Research, «Pallets Market: Global Industry Analysis 2012 — 2016 and Forecast 2017 — 2025,» has forecasted strong future growth for the plastic pallet iIndustry Analysis 2012 — 2016 and Forecast 2017 — 2025,» has forecasted strong future growth for the plastic pallet industryindustry.
The European Plastics Industry represented by EuPC and PlasticsEurope, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), have announced the winners of the first edition of the European Plastics Innovation Awards 2016.
Betsy Dorn also will explain «The New Plastics Economy» initiative being organized by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, covering the potential implications to the pouch industry.
A new Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) published by IFCO, a provider of reusable plastic containers (RPCs), attempts to discredit the corrugated packaging industry for having the highest recovery rate of any packaging system in America.
The plastics industry in ASEAN remains untroubled by global developments that are also impacting the growth path of key industries.
Greystone Logistics is a manufacturing and leasing company that designs, manufactures, sells and leases high quality plastic pallets that provide logistical solutions needed by a wide range of industries such as the food and beverage, automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical and consumer product industries.
Further, there are hopes for relatively low - cost natural gas to revive U.S. industries — from steel to plastics — that could take advantage of current prices, which by world standards are cheap.
«Every additive that we use is very carefully evaluated, not just by the industry, but also independently by government agencies to look at all the materials we use in plastics,» said Mike Neal, a consumer and environmental affairs specialist at PlasticsEurope, an industry trade association, and a co-author of the report.
The industry has traditionally made a widely used chemical called isobutene — used in everything from plastic soda bottles to rubber tires — by superheating crude oil.
Antimony, for example, is a naturally occurring silver - colored metal that is widely used by numerous industries to make plastics, vulcanized rubber, flame retardants and a host of electronic components including solar cells and LEDs.
3D printing represents the latest version of what industry experts call «additive manufacturing» — a way to turn practically any computer designs into real objects by building them up layer - by - layer using plastics, metals or other materials.
Green Building Solutions (greenbuildingsolutions.org), a plastics industry original website by the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council, has promoted the use of energy - efficient, resilient, green building materials, and more environmentally friendly methods of construction sinplastics industry original website by the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council, has promoted the use of energy - efficient, resilient, green building materials, and more environmentally friendly methods of construction sinPlastics Division of the American Chemistry Council, has promoted the use of energy - efficient, resilient, green building materials, and more environmentally friendly methods of construction since 2005.
The evening will feature 16 speakers from different industries, all at the forefront of the plastics fight, with a keynote address by Michael Gove,...
With the development of plastic materials by organic chemists during the Second World War, the capacitor industry began to replace paper with thinner polymer films.
By Maurice Smith A company that creates new value from CO2 waste for the plastics industry has won funding from the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative's investment arm, OGCI Climate Investments.
The company has achieved many technological firsts including the production of high quality colour rugged plastic displays, demonstration of animation on an EPD driven by OTFTs and production yields of its flexible plastic displays comparable to the LCD industry.
And, oh yeah, it's not about saving any industry that wants to replicate its content onto a rectangular hunk of plastic and charge for it by calling itself something e - or i -.
TABLE 1 Market Snapshot: Global E-Paper Display Market TABLE 2 Evolution of E-Paper Display Technology TABLE 3 Comparison Between Different Display Technologies TABLE 4 Impact Indicators TABLE 5 Impact Analysis of Drivers and Restraints TABLE 6 Adoption Status in Different Application Domains TABLE 7 North America E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Product, 2013 — 2022 (US$ Mn) TABLE 8 North America E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Technology, 2013 — 2022 (US$ Mn) TABLE 9 North America E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Country, 2013 — 2022 (US$ Mn) TABLE 10 Europe E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Product, 2013 — 2022 (US$ Mn) TABLE 11 Europe E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Technology, 2013 — 2022 (US$ Mn) TABLE 12 Europe E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Region, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn) TABLE 13 Asia Pacific E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Product, 2013 — 2022 (US$ Mn) TABLE 14 Asia Pacific E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Technology, 2013 — 2022 (US$ Mn) TABLE 15 Asia Pacific E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Country, 2013 — 2022 (US$ Mn) TABLE 16 RoW E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Product, 2013 — 2022 (US$ Mn) TABLE 17 RoW E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Technology, 2013 — 2022 (US$ Mn) TABLE 18 RoW E-Paper Display Market Revenue, By Region, 2013 — 2022 (US$ Mn) TABLE 19 E Ink Holdings, Inc.: Company Snapshot (Company Details, Geographical Presence, Product Portfolio, Key Industries Served, SCOT Analysis, Recent Developments) TABLE 20 Displaydata Ltd.: Company Snapshot (Company Details, Geographical Presence, Product Portfolio, Key Industries Served, SCOT Analysis, Recent Developments) TABLE 21 Gamma Dynamics, LLC.: Company Snapshot (Company Details, Geographical Presence, Product Portfolio, Key Industries Served, SCOT Analysis, Recent Developments) TABLE 22 NEC LCD Technologies Ltd.: Company Snapshot (Company Details, Geographical Presence, Product Portfolio, Key Industries Served, SCOT Analysis, Recent Developments) TABLE 23 Sony Electronics, Inc.: Company Snapshot (Company Details, Geographical Presence, Product Portfolio, Key Industries Served, SCOT Analysis, Recent Developments) TABLE 24 Pervasive Displays, Inc.: Company Snapshot (Company Details, Geographical Presence, Product Portfolio, Key Industries Served, SCOT Analysis, Recent Developments) TABLE 25 Liquavista BV: Company Snapshot (Company Details, Geographical Presence, Product Portfolio, Key Industries Served, SCOT Analysis, Recent Developments) TABLE 26 Kent Displays, Inc.: Company Snapshot (Company Details, Geographical Presence, Product Portfolio, Key Industries Served, SCOT Analysis, Recent Developments) TABLE 27 Plastic Logic GmbH: Company Snapshot (Company Details, Geographical Presence, Product Portfolio, Key Industries Served, SCOT Analysis, Recent Developments) TABLE 28 Guangzhou OED Technologies Co., Ltd.: Company Snapshot (Company Details, Geographical Presence, Product Portfolio, Key Industries Served, SCOT Analysis, Recent Developments)
In March of 2007, for example, more than 100 brands of pet food, including some of the most prominent names in the industry — like Hill's Science Diet, Iams, Eukanuba, and Purina — were contaminated by melamine, a chemical used in fertilizer and plastics and, in this case, imported into the United States from China.
No honestly, REALLY?!? I don't know whether to laugh at the fanboys at cry at the fact that the best entertainment industry in the world is being held back by weak boxes of plastic junk Even Huma / Mark Cerny's Ass / Optimisation can't save this horror show.
By making a plank of wood out of plastic paint, Livingston also points to the role of mechanized production in the timber industry.
Together with her husband, Louis S. Myers, a founder of Myers Industries who died in 1993, a tire business and maker of plastic storage containers, they amassed a collection of paintings and sculptures that included work by de Kooning, Calder, Judd and Noguchi.
Socrates Sculpture Park is grateful for the generous contributions made by: Harold H. Anthony, Inc.; Bedrock Industries; John P. Corrieri, Inc.; DonJer Products Corp.; E&T Plastic Manufacturing Co., Inc.; eNet Furniture; Ex-Tech Industries, Inc.; ImageKing Visual Solutions; Long Island General Supply Co., Inc.; Materials for the Arts; NY Wa $ teMatch; Plant Specialists; Spacetime C.C.; Steelcase Inc..
These artists were also influenced by the industrial paints applied to the surfaces of surfboards and cars, as well as the plastics of the aerospace industry.
Plastics have been a boon to industry, but are now the bane of the planet, even as plastic pollution is expected to continue unabated (and even increase), with experts now predicting that by 2050 «the oceans will contain more plastic than fish by weight..»
These plastic identification codes (PICs) were introduced by the Society of the Plastics Industry to provide a uniform system for the identification of different plastic polymer types.
In the petrochemical industry, moving to the most efficient production technologies now available and recycling more plastic can cut energy use by 32 percent.
Through the programs discussed below, we encourage individuals, industry, and governments to protect our ocean, waves and beaches by moving away from single - use plastics.
While that information remains in the textbook, its impact is greatly reduced by the materials on the environmental benefits of plastic bags, all of which seems to have come directly from the American Chemistry Council, a trade group for the plastic industry with a clear interest in promoting plastic bags.
The New Plastics Economy report also projected that by 2050 the plastics industry will consume 20 % of oil proPlastics Economy report also projected that by 2050 the plastics industry will consume 20 % of oil proplastics industry will consume 20 % of oil production.
Significant economic value is lost after each use, and given the projected growth in consumption, by 2050 oceans are expected to contain more plastics than fish (by weight), and the entire plastics industry will consume 20 % of total oil production and 15 % of the annual carbon budget.
Industry explains that this increase of production is fueled by expected increases in demand for disposable plastics, such as soft drinks and packaging, by millennials in developed countries, and growing consumer markets in developing countries.
But the Plastics industry does itself no favours by promoting Patrick Moore as a shill and linking to five year old videos, he is just not believable and so much has changed since then.
The PIC was introduced by the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. to provide a uniform system for the identification of different polymer types.
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