Sentences with phrase «plant technology as»

This unrivalled event provides a unique platform for food industry professionals to meet face to face with suppliers of cutting edge processing, packaging and plant technology as well as the latest in food science.

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A spokesman for the National Farmers» Union said: «British farmers should have the choice to access the best technologies, such as advanced plant breeding, to ensure they can remain competitive and produce quality food while protecting the environment.»

As digital technology creeps into every part of the physical plant, the risk of such attacks is steadily growing:

«Some EU members, especially Germany, are concerned about Chinese investment in the so - called periphery of the union, as well as about the acquisition of strategically sensitive infrastructure such as ports, power plants and key technologies,» Igor Rogelja, a researcher at the Lau China Institute at King's College London, said.

It's also working in Beijing on new technology in genome editing; unlike GMO technology, it doesn't involve inserting a gene from another species, such as a bacterium, into a plant.

Just as importantly, his work on the distribution of electricity led to the world's first power plant in New York City (though his technology choice, direct current (DC), was eventually surpassed by the alternating current approach (AC) championed by rival inventor, Nikola Tesla).

Some of the plant's equipment, such as 3 - D printers and laser inspection technology, can be shared.

If it seems like having an advanced business plan for an as - yet unproven technology is putting the cart before the horse, the imposed 20 - year timeline for this project actually represents an accelerated pace — from experimental stage to working prototype and then to commercial 1,000 MW power plants dotting the landscape.

In a bid to ensure the future of the Dongguan plant, TAL was forced to slash its workforce from 5,000 to 3,000 and invest heavily in new technologies, such as the water treatment facility, Lee said.

Often these new food technologies are using plant - based ingredients to replace animal - based foods, such as chicken breasts, ground beef, eggs, milk, cheese, etc..

Wisconsin's proposed $ 3 billion in tax breaks for Chinese electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group to open a U.S. plant there served as a model in for Pennsylvania leaders in their discussions.

From 2011 to 2014, Mr. Bell served as a director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Virent Corporation, a pre-revenue biochemical company with proprietary technology for producing plastics and other products from plant sugars.

Just as an illustration, a new plant in Austria now produces with 14 employees what it would have taken 1000 to produce with the technology employed in the 1960s.

«We think of it as meat made a better way... Meat today basically is made using pre-historic technology, using animals to turn plants into this very special category of food... But to your typical consumer... the value proposition of meat has nothing to do with its coming from an animal.»

GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

Yet it must be said in fairness that there is probably as much paternalism in the liberal's all-wise insistence on «appropriate technology» in the face of a new nation's determination to have its own steel plants as in the conservative's all-wise insistence on monogamous marriage in the face of tribal insistence on polygamy.

Even as we've begun to improve efficiency in factories and power plants, our cars and trucks have grown bigger and more wasteful: average fuel efficiency actually declined in the 1990s, even as engineers came up with one technology after another that could have saved gas.

As our knowledge of nuclear power, for example, increased and we built more and more nuclear power plants, we discovered how little we really knew about the new world of technology we ushered ourselves into, with risks previously unknown and unanticipated.

New processes and technologies in landscape planning, soil analysis, irrigation, and even alternative proteins such as plant - based meat are making agriculture and land use more sustainable.

«The plant, known as the «Meat Depot» because of its role as a hub for operators looking to develop and supply signature case - ready programs, is equipped with the latest cutting and packaging technologies,» the company says.

GPS technology can be used to track the highest yield plant, as well as check for disease and bugs.»

Founded in the UK by Dr Richard Seligman in 1910 as the Aluminium Plant & Vessel Company, APV initially manufactured welded vessels for the brewery and vegetable oil industries and has pioneered ground - breaking technologies during the course of a century, setting standards of the modern processing industry.

A complete, fully connected end - of - line solution Featuring several different technologies and components, the solution installed at the Moulin de la Chaume plant by Gebo Cermex is characterised by high operational intelligence and smooth integration into the production flow, contributing to the efficiency of the four lines, as well as improving operator safety and batch traceability.

Spanning an overall area of 2,200 m2 at the company's headquarters in Hamburg, the Center accommodates state - of - the - art pilot plants, equipment for the refinement of milled grain products, a professional kitchen and up - to - date baking technology for application - related trials, as well as a laboratory where products can be analyzed.

Early - adopter Miele embraced the technology at its plant in Warendorf, Germany, to prevent high - gloss, thermoplastic bezel for washing machines from becoming scratched as they make their way through the fully automated assembly line to retail and, ultimately, to the end - user's home.

GURTs (herein referred to as «Terminator») are genetic engineering technologies that seek to control plant fertility.

As part of its major programme of environmental improvement, The Glenmorangie Company has nominated water treatment specialist Aquabio, to design and build the core technology package for a new wastewater treatment plant at Glenmorangie Distillery at Tain, Ross - Shire in Scotland.

The Global Water Engineering (GWE) anaerobic digestion technologies — to be featured on Stand S9 — extract biogas from virtually any biological waste stream, including municipal food wastes from restaurants, food service facilities, grocery stores, and municipal solid waste, as well as organic wastes from industrial processing facilities, food and beverage plants and agribusinesses.

Today, new technologies are being used to artificially develop other traits in plants, such as resistance to browning in apples, and creating new organisms using synthetic biology.

Using genetic engineering or transgenic technology, the DNA of plants and animals is combined with the DNA of other species and artificially modified to exhibit traits such as resistance to cold or herbicides.

BELVIDERE, Ill. (AP)-- A gas line explosion rocked a technology plant in northern Illinois Monday, sending trembles through buildings as far as a mile away.

It affirmed that the Kainji plant serves as a demonstration of innovative small - scale electrification solutions which is the first renewable energy power plant in Nigeria that combines more than one technology, and is able to operate both off - grid and on - grid.

Novel technologies are being sought to replace the traditional pesticides used to protect plants, particularly edible plants such as cereals.

It also is one of several U.S. proposals that demonstrate a viable financial model for capture technology, as the plant will produce byproducts ranging from CO2 to sulfuric acid worth as much as $ 50 to $ 100 million annually, analysts say.

The technology can be applied to upstream production of gas as well as in petrochemical plants and for medical uses to harvest oxygen from other gases.

In releasing its draft rule in 2013 on carbon emissions from new power plants, EPA cited Kemper, along with three other proposed plants, as an example of the viability of CO2 capture technology.

Much of my team's work focuses on transgene technology from early - stage experiments in model plants all the way to field trials with crop plants such as corn.

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

In order to get technologies, such as integrated gasification and combined cycle coal power plants with carbon capture and storage, into the economic mainstream, a carbon price is needed.

And advances in materials technology, such as hybrid ceramic / steel, can help boost the temperature — and therefore increase the efficiency and lower the amount of CO2 emissions — of new coal - fired power plants.

Another Clean Air Act provision requires large new stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and factories, to meet pollution limits based on what can be achieved by the «best available control technology,» which ensures continuous improvement over time.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Engineers also are considering deploying the technology on other sources of emissions, such as natural gas plants.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

Technology showed its dark side in March 1979 as the Three Mile Island power plant suffered a severe core meltdown, the nation's most serious commercial nuclear accident.

Utility - scale solar power plants and second - generation biofuels such as algae have led the field in recent financing rounds, but funding is now branching into less developed technologies such as bioplastics, green building materials and water desalination.

It's a pairing of the technology that could be employed to clean up coal - fired power plants with green plants serving as fuel after sucking in CO2.

Diesels have long been regarded as among the dirtiest of power plants, a reputation that lingers because so many decades - old examples of this durable technology still work the roads today.

Most of the 15,000 desalination plants in the world employ a technology known as reverse osmosis.

Even President Barack Obama has labeled the technology as important for «energy independence» and included $ 3.4 billion in the economic stimulus package for «clean coal» power plants.