Process manufacturers are under pressure. Growing pressure, in fact. (For our purposes, process includes companies in the rolled goods, woven goods, packaging, extrusion/injection molding and ...

The thorny and politically charged issue of the sustainability of the food system is once again front and center in the debate over the government's dietary guidelines. The Agriculture Department and ...

If you’re using process mass intensity (PMI) to gauge sustainability of continuous and batch manufacturing processes for biologics, you’re only seeing part of the picture. Recent research shows that ...

Across industries such as food processing, pulp and paper, ceramics, engineered wood, biomass, and chemicals, manufacturers ...

The demand for vanillin vastly outstrips the natural resources of this flavoring agent. A chemical process is thus used to produce the required large quantities of vanillin from petroleum, which is ...

The textile and meat-processing industries produce billions of tons of waste annually in the form of feathers, wool and hair, all of which are rich in keratin—the strong, fibrous protein found in hair ...

Coordinators: Prof. Laura R. Conde (lrconder@unal.edu.co), Prof. Alvaro Orjuela (aorjuelal@unal.edu.co) Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Professors David E. Bernal Neira from ...

Sustainability non-profit GreenBlue’s Advisory Services Group has begun employing a strategic process to help companies walk through a ten-step course of action that strategically links sustainability ...

Chemists have developed a new, more sustainable process for synthesizing numerous important everyday chemicals from white phosphorus. The new process has the potential to establish innovative, more ...