Sustainable Manufacturing

Companies Unite to Foster Green Chemistry

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In the January 5, 2009 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, the official trade journal of the American Chemical Society, the ACS announced the formation of the Formulated Products Roundtable. This organization, which will begin operating later this month, is an industry-financed partnership between the ACS’s Green Chemistry Institute (GCI), a not-for-profit group devoted to promoting green chemistry, and sixteen prominent companies that manufacture cosmetics, perfumes, soaps, detergents, and other household and industrial cleaning products. Its aim is to share knowledge of green chemistry among its members in order to create products that are more sustainable, more environmentally friendly, and safer – and hopefully, more profitable too.

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Wal-Mart and China: Will Sustainability Commitments Produce Results?

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If Wal-Mart is ever going to achieve the status of a company truly committed to sustainable business practices, there’s one 800-pound gorilla that it must address: China. The company’s sustainability summit on October 21 and 22 in Beijing was an attempt to do that, both from a PR perspective, but also in terms of “laying

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Supply Side Economics: Transforming Carbon Emissions Into Useful Products

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Carbon Sciences, Inc. has developed an innovative technology to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) – which is implicated in the issue of global warming – into a number of commercially useful, earth-friendly carbon products. The company calls this technology advance: GreenCarbon Technology. The aim is to extract value from carbon emissions by transforming the gas into a product that holds commercial value.

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Forest Stewardship Council Files Suit Against U.S. Government

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The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), which provides chain-of-custody certifications for forestry-based products (including office and printing papers, as well as the suppliers that print on, distribute, and dispose of those products), has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Government, the first-ever legal action in its 10-year history. The letter from Corey Brinkema, president of the

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Earthster- Making Life Cycle Assessment More Accessible

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Earthster is an organization that helps to make Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) more accessible to all users worldwide.  In addition to offering the benefits of LCA without a lot of capital or time investment, Earthster’s web portal provides a market benefit to these organizations, as well as links to resources for environmental and social improvements.

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Design For the Environment

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The Design for the Environment (DfE) Program works in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders to reduce risk to people and the environment by preventing pollution. DfE focuses on industries that combine the potential for chemical risk reduction with a strong motivation to make lasting, positive changes. DfE convenes partners, including industry representatives and environmental

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Timberland’s First Facility-Level Sustainability Report

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Last week Timberland announced the availability of its first factory-specific sustainability report to all stakeholders, industry leaders and consumers. The Facility Report details baseline performance information for the company’s Dominican Republic factory in the areas of global human rights, environmental stewardship and community involvement. Timberland’s goals for facility-level reporting are threefold: (1) Build on the

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Life Cycle Initiative

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The United Nations Environment Program, UNEP and the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, SETAC launched an International Life Cycle Partnership, known as the Life Cycle Initiative, to enable users around the world to put life cycle thinking into effective practice. The value added of the Initiative are: To provide reliable information in an accessible

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Innovative Carnegie Mellon Partnership Develops New Way to Calculate Shipping-related CO2 Emissions

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A pioneering program to offset shipping-related carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions, Carbonfree™ Shipping, was launched on Monday, according to Carbonfund.org.  The program was designed in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University’s Green Design Institute. It involves a breakthrough method for calculating shipping-related carbon dioxide emissions. The first four companies to participate in the program are BetterWorld.com, Evogear, 3r

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Sharp’s Kameyama Plant—The World’s Most Advanced Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing Facility

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Sharp Corporation’s state-of-the-art Kameyama Plant No. 2 became operational in August of this year.  This LCD manufacturing facility uses 8th generation glass substrates, the world’s largest (2,160 X 2,460 mm), and the 52V- and 46V-inch LCD TVs using panels produced from these substrates were introduced simultaneously around the world starting from October 1, 2006. As

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Cradle To Cradle Supply Chain Tool

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MBDC’s Supply Chain Tool is an easy-to-use, web-based software to help companies efficiently inform their suppliers about new product design criteria, collect material formulation data, and compile it in a flexible database. This gathered data can be used by MBDC to assess, certify or optimize products and report research findings to a client and its

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Ice Stone Earns Cradle to Cradle Silver Certification

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IceStone, a fast growing Brooklyn-based company that turns post-consumer recycled glass into highly durable countertops and surfaces, has achieved the most prestigious milestone in the green building world.  After a year of analysis and testing, IceStone has earned the Cradle to Cradle™ Silver certification for advanced design of environmentally friendly products. IceStone is the first

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Wal-Mart Announces Plan To Work with Suppliers to Substitute 20 Chemicals of Concern Over Two Years

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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. recently announced its plans to inspire innovation in chemicals used in various product selections. The company will begin implementing its "Preferred Chemical Principles" to establish a clear set of preferred chemical characteristics for product ingredients. The purpose is to drive the development of more sustainable products for mother, child and the environment. 

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Sharp to Increase Solar Plant Capacity to 600MW, World’s Highest

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Sharp Corporation has increased annual production capacity for solar cells at its Katsuragi Plant in Nara Prefecture by 100 MW (megawatts) to meet burgeoning demand in Japan and abroad, and has constructed a system that will be able to enter full production by November 2006. As a result, solar cell production capacity at the Katsuragi

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Alcoma Kama and Cereplast Announce Proposed Production of Sustainable Thermoformable Extruded Sheet

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Alcoa KAMA, the sheet extrusion division of Reynolds Food Packaging, an Alcoa business, and Cereplast™, Inc., a producer of proprietary bio-based resins, Monday announced that Alcoa KAMA plans to produce plastic sheet for thermoforming and other markets using Cereplast’s starch-based, bio-degradable resins.  The extruded sheet in rollstock form will have wide applications for food service

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The Fair Factories Clearinghouse (FFC)

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Social compliance audits are a key tool in assessing factory workplace conditions.  Buyers also use audits to assess security and environmental conditions in factories. Nevertheless, there is no comprehensive process for managing or sharing social compliance audit information.  Many laudable efforts to create a widespread process have resulted in multiple, duplicative systems. To help address

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Panasonic Setting Eco-Targets to Manage Environmental Impact During the Product Life Cycle

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Panasonic‘s "Product Life Cycle" program promotes and developes products with reduced environmental impacts.  Their products’ eco designs are based upon a comprehensive assessment of their entire life cycle.  This assessment includes all phases of a product’s lifecycle from design, production, distribution, sale, use, return and recycling. Visit Panasonic to learn more about the steps they

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Cradle to Cradle Certification

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Cradle to Cradle Design is a fundamental conceptual shift away from the flawed system design of the Industrial Revolution.  Instead of designing products and systems based on the "take-make-waste" model of the last century (‘cradle to grave’), MBDC’s Cradle to Cradle Design paradigm is powering the Next Industrial Revolution, in which products and services are

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Light-Weight, Low-Cost Wall Greening System Developed

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Japan for Sustainability reports, Shimizu Corp., a major Japanese construction company, and Minoru Industrial Co., an agricultural machinery manufacturer, co-developed and are marketing "Parabienta," a light-weight and low-cost wall greening system. The Parabienta wall greening system combines panel-type planting units to form a wall. Different combinations of panel unit patterns and the selection of various

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InterfaceRAISE Emerges as Prime Resource for Sustainability Education, Cultural Transformation and Innovation

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Twelve years into its sustainability journey, and now in full swing with its Mission Zero™ promise, Interface has launched InterfaceRAISE a corporate consulting resource that will further amplify Interface’s long standing efforts to educate others seeking to implement the necessary steps for becoming sustainable. Having already piloted the InterfaceRAISE concept with leaders at Wal-Mart, General

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