Search Results for: America
10 results out of 1848 results found for 'America'.
CORRUGATION DEAL
BY PHILIP FINE
US and European corrugated container industries have announced a harmonisation of their two standards. America’s Fibre Box Association (FBA) and the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO) have developed a standard called the Corrugated Common Footprint. It was developed so that box makers could provide trays that perform well throughout the supply chain.…
FINGERPRINT SCANNING
BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICA’S Washington and Oregon state-based Thrift Way supermarket chain is to introduce fingerprint scanning to authorise payments, speeding up checkout queues. The new biometric technology is also designed to prevent credit card fraud. Readers on credit-card machines at checkouts check customers’ fingerprints and send encrypted data to data centres operated by Indivos, the company providing the service.…
MAPLE SYRUP
BY MONICA DOBIE
ASK most people what they do with maple syrup and the majority will reply they use it to drizzle over pancakes in the morning. Maple syrup producers in Quebec, the world’s leading producer of the sweet treat, are trying to change that.…
MINERAL WATER FEATURE
BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE USA dominates the world’s soft-drinks markets with its Coca Cola, Pepsi and affiliated brands, so can the big players in the European bottled mineral water industry achieve a similar success with brands such as Evian, Volvic and Perrier?…
EU-LATIN AMERICA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT supporting research into new technologies for food distribution has been signed by the EU, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.…
CENTRAL AMERICA
Keith Nuthall
CENTRAL American coffee producers are to receive aid worth US$ millions from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, who have agreed to re-allocate money from rural development budgets worth US$500 million, at the request of local governments, to help coffee-producing areas.…
CENTRAL AMERICA
Keith Nuthall
CENTRAL American coffee producers are to receive aid worth US$ millions from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, who have agreed to re-allocate money from rural development budgets worth US$500 million, at the request of local governments, to help coffee-producing areas.…
BOTOX
BY PHILIP FINE
BOTOX can now be sold as a temporary wrinkle remover in America, after the popular injection received approval as a cosmetic by the US Food and Drug Administration. The product, which short-circuits electrical messages from the brain to facial nerve endings, is derived from a purified form of the toxin that causes botulism.…
ALBERTA MERGER
BY MONICA DOBIE
SHAREHOLDERS of Alberta Energy Co. (AEC) and the PanCanadian Energy Corporation have voted overwhelmingly to merge the two Alberta-based companies to form EnCana Corp, which the companies say will be the largest independent energy producer in north America.…
SYNGAS
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICA’S Environmental Protection Agency is looking to add certain waste materials, now classified as hazardous, to their programme promoting alternative fuels.
The EPA is trying to expand the country’s use of gasification, a process that puts materials under high temperatures to convert them into synthetic gas.…