Double contract success for engineering company
An independent engineering firm is celebrating winning a double major nuclear contract. Cumbria-based Forth has secured two separate contracts to carry out work on behalf of governmental nuclear decommissioning company Magnox. The team at Forth has successfully tendered to design, manufacture and provide waste retrieval solutions in Magnox wet vaults at Hinkley Point, and has […]
How Real-Time Visibility of the Supply Chain Can Help Mitigate Food Waste
How Real-Time Visibility of the Supply Chain Can Help Mitigate Food Waste : In today’s market, consumer demands have not only driven supply chain efficiencies for greater speed and convenience but are increasingly now forcing retailers to address expectations of improved sustainability. The consequences of keeping up with customers’ wishes aren’t always easy and may […]
Food waste – Where Does It Happen?
In US households, around 150,000 tons of food is thrown away every day, working out at roughly one pound per person. And it doesn’t stop there. With some 88 million tons of food wasted in the European Union (EU) each year, and approximately a third of produce in Asia resigned to landfills, the food waste […]
What Can Food Manufacturers Do to Help Reduce Food Waste?
The UK contributes to seven million tonnes of safe to eat food waste, with the average household in the UK spending £700 a year on wasted food. The leading cause of this is confusion to what date labels on products actually mean. Each supermarket and brand of product uses different labelling and language to indicate the […]
AeroThermal’s First Thermal Hydrolysis Unit Operational
AeroThermal Ltd has announced that its first Thermo-Pressure Hydrolysis (TPH) vessel was onstream processing bio-waste for the first time for a renewables company in the UK. The 65m3 Thermo-Pressure Hydrolysis is a key component at a new bio-waste anaerobic digestion site in the UK. The technology pre-treats food waste and other bio-waste organics prior to […]
Plastic to Oil Recycling Trial Launched by Tesco
As part of a trial with Recycling Technologies, Tesco will be collecting previously unrecyclable plastics in 10 of its stores in the Bristol and Swindon areas. “Our trial with Recycling Technologies will make even more of our packaging recyclable and help us reach our target. This technology could be the final piece of the jigsaw […]
Are Customers Reaching an Ethical Tipping Point?
The UK is a nation addicted to fashion, buying five times more clothes today than in the 1980s. But 400,000 tonnes of clothes end up in landfill every year – and there is growing awareness that the way these clothes are produced and discarded is having a massive impact on the environment, from water consumption […]
Cloud-Based Software Enhances Egbert Taylor’s Operation
Cloud-Based Software Enhances Egbert Taylor’s Operation : Egbert Taylor Group has introduced Infor’s CloudSuite Industrial to oversee the management of its 1.5m combinations of bin products which include varying sizes and types of container, customer logos, colours and lids. The worldâs number one designer and manufacturer of four-wheeled, galvanised steel waste containers which has also […]
