Sentences with phrase «percent less material»

The Katan - Ex microlayer film excels in increased pallet stability at elevated temperatures, uses 30 percent less material per pallet and reduces damage products during transportation by 80 percent.

Where hot fill normally requires thick walled containers, ThermoShape ™ enables 20 percent less material to be used without the use of vacuum panels or impact on the performance of the bottle.

Not exact matches

The biggest losers were energy (XLE), consumer staples (XLP) and materials (XLB), all down more than 7 percent amid riding bond yields — which makes dividend stock yields less attractive and overrode other factors, like stronger oil prices and a weak dollar.

Access to the Proxy: Companies should provide access to management proxy materials for a long - term investor or group of long - term investors owning in aggregate at least three percent of a company's voting stock, to nominate less than a majority of the directors.

Recycling packaging materials also makes good business sense as containers produced with recycled material use 95 percent less energy compared with bottles made from raw materials, says Eric Louis - Seize, market analyst at Hawkesbury, Ontario - based Montebello Packaging.

They were able to demonstrate that even though the total amount of the graphene added to the material was minuscule — less than 1/10 of a percent by weight — it led to a clear - cut improvement in overall strength.

Only about 40 percent of used electronics are currently collected for recycling, and much of that is «down - cycled» into materials of lesser quality, but the computer company aims to change that.

They determined a material with less than 90 percent carbon and enhanced by oxygen, rather than nitrogen or sulfur, worked best for both carbon capture and methane selectivity, especially for materials activated at temperatures approaching 800 degrees Celsius.

By using solar panels and energy - efficient materials, the buildings in the Holy Cross Project use at least 75 percent less energy than typical buildings.

«Our gel helps regain control of the radioactive material and produces 90 percent less waste than water,» claims Shaun McCabe, president of Asia - Pacific systems for CBI Polymers, which recently donated 100 five - gallon pails of its cleaner to the Fukushima cleanup effort and hopes to sell hundreds more there.

Dell's Plastics - Recycling Program Earns Green Electronics Award Only about 40 percent of used electronics are currently collected for recycling, and much of that is «down - cycled» into materials of lesser quality, but the computer company aims to change that.

The report notes that three business sectors — energy firms, utilities and materials companies — account for 87 percent of scope 1 and 2 emissions, greenhouse gases that are directly emitted by a firm's activities, even though they account for less than 25 percent of all companies on the index.

Cadmium - telluride, however, has an advantage over silicon because it can absorb the same amount of sunlight with 98 percent less semiconducting material, thus reducing the overall cost of the solar panel.

Over the next eight years, C3 plants grew on average 2 percent less plant material if they received extra CO2, while C4 plants grew 24 percent more.

In November researchers showed off the lightest material ever created: a strong metal mesh about 25 percent less dense than the wispiest aerogel, a foamlike material that was the old record holder.

Asara estimates that collagen protein represented less than one one - hundredth percent of the material he received from Schweitzer, but following a difficult process of extraction and purification, he found six protein fragments, or peptides, that could be sequenced.

Less than 1 percent of their mass is carbon, and even this material is largely oxidized and hence an insignificant source of methane.

Our finding of sinusitis, bronchial hyperreactivity, and bronchial responsiveness in firefighters with World Trade Center cough is important but not surprising.17 - 20 An unexpected finding was that 87 percent of such firefighters reported symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease; such symptoms are generally reported by less than 25 percent of patients with chronic cough.1, 21,22 Despite the strong associations between gastroesophageal reflux disease and chronic cough17 - 20 and between gastroesophageal reflux disease and asthma,23 - 25 it remains unclear whether gastroesophageal reflux disease causes either condition.26 The causative mechanism may be repeated aspiration of minute amounts of refluxed material; vagally mediated esophageal, tracheobronchial, or laryngobronchial cough reflexes; or neurally mediated bronchial inflammation.23, 24,26 Involvement of the posterior nasopharynx is common in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, 27 whereas bronchial hyperreactivity may not be present.25, 26 For these reasons, we classified gastroesophageal reflux disease as an upper - airway symptom (Figure 2).

After use, less than 1 percent of material used to produce clothing is recycled into new clothing.

According to a Brandon - Hall study, the average eLearner will spend 40 to 60 percent less time learning the same material compared to someone studying in a traditional classroom setting: When you calculate the time you save by not having to commute, as well as time saved by avoiding other potential distractions that you'd have experienced in a traditional classroom, it becomes clear that one of the biggest advantages of eLearning is that it saves you time.

Although classroom training has some strong points, a Brandon Hall Group study points out that it typically takes employees 40 to 60 percent less time to study a particular material via e-learning than in a traditional classroom setting.

While that is less than a fourth of the instructional materials market as a whole, the electronic sector's growth has been vigorous — up 4.4 percent from 2005 to 2006, as compared with the 2.6 percent growth rate of the overall instructional products market.

Even though less than 10 percent of MOOC students finish the courses they sign up for on their own, many experts believe that combining MOOC materials with support from a faculty member or a teaching assistant could increase completion rates.

This fact was supported in the Software & Information Industry Association survey, which found that less than one - third of educators — 25 percent of educators in urban areas and 33 percent of educators in rural areas — believe that there is adequate bandwidth for students to have access to digital instructional materials.

As a result, the percentage of Louisiana districts using instructional materials fully aligned to high standards has gone from less than 20 percent to more than 80 percent in just four years.

In the past, Ford and Magna International collaborated on a mixed - material concept vehicle, which weighs 23.5 percent less than the Ford Fusion sedan on which it's based while meeting all federal crash and safety regulations.

One of the stand - out characteristics of this high - tech material is its hugely impressive torsional rigidity, yet it is also carries 50 percent less weight than steel and is 30 percent lighter than aluminum.

And because plastic is lighter than steel, Chrysler estimates a complete body would cost 20 percent less for raw materials than the same body in steel.

Other programs, like Digital Direct Access, deliver course materials directly to students on the first day of class up to 60 percent less than traditional print materials.

Basic material companies, the second best performing group over the past five years, made up less than 1 percent of the growth index.

In fact, 98 percent of the materials used in West Paw Design's products, including a wide range of dog and cat toys, are sourced in the U.S. Durable & Safe Options Another — less obvious — way to determine if a pet toy is environmentally friendly is its durability.

Ice covered by the insulating material melted 60 percent less than exposed portions which lost an average of 5 feet in thickness during the test.

An argument then could be made that it is always best to recycle paper since making new paper would create 25 percent to 70 percent less emissions than if the paper were from virgin materials.

100 percent PCR PET materials use significantly less energy and water to produce than virgin plastic and generates far fewer greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste.

The system needs 25 to 85 percent less silicon than a crystalline silicon panel of comparable wattage, Lewandowski says, because the photovoltaic material need not cover the entire surface of a solar panel.

They believe that if the material could be constructed so that only the high efficiency facets connect with the electrode, then the efficiency of the solar cell would jump to as high as 31 percent, leading to a higher - performing and less expensive solar material than we use today.

Paper products made from recycled material use 40 percent less energy and water being manufactured which in turns creates far less air, land, and water pollution.

Because, multifamily general contractors outsource most of their construction work, they spend relatively less on materials, components, supplies, and selected power and fuels - 21 percent of the total business receipts, compared to 37 percent by SF general contractors, 31 percent by residential remodelers, and 36 percent by STC.