containment product Articles
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WERCSmart In-store Audit Team using ItemScan - Case study
UL is now offering an in-store auditing service to assist retailers with ensuring full compliance with the WERCSmart program. Using UL’s innovative ItemScan smartphone application, the WERCSmart Audit Team ensures that retailers have data for the chemical-containing products in their stores. By checking the store physical inventory, ItemScan can quickly determine the level of supplier ...
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Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation - Hopewell, VA
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of packaging products ranging from consumer goods, printed displays and container board. The Hopewell, Virginia facility is dedicated to providing linerboard for corrugated container end products. Project DescriptionHPD was chosen to replace the existing three evaporator trains that were currently in place at this ...
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Managing the product development process. Part II: case studies
In part I, the management of product development was studied, and a number of methodologies were assessed. The work identified the principle strengths and weaknesses contained within structured product development processes in use in industry today. These methodologies have been credited with a fair degree of success in improving the productivity and quality of the product development process. ...
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Case study - What is asbestos?
Asbestos is the name for a group of naturally occurring silicate minerals that can be separated into fibers. The fibers are strong, durable, and resistant to heat and fire. They are also long, thin and flexible, so that they can even be woven into cloth. Because of these qualities, asbestos has been used in thousands of consumer, industrial, maritime, automotive, scientific and building ...
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What is asbestos?
Asbestos is the name for a group of naturally occurring silicate minerals that can be separated into fibers. The fibers are strong, durable, and resistant to heat and fire. They are also long, thin and flexible, so that they can even be woven into cloth. Because of these qualities, asbestos has been used in thousands of consumer, industrial, maritime, automotive, scientific and building ...
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Sentiments and acts towards genetically modified foods
Hundreds of studies have elicited consumer stated preferences towards genetically modified foods at various countries around the world. Customarily, consumer stated preferences have been viewed as adequate proxies of potential response towards such products. As we have argued here, however, there are theoretical and methodological reasons as to why stated and revealed consumer preference could ...
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Secondary Containment providers for UltraTech & Justrite and Eagle Mfg. - Containment News from IPI
Clean Water Act Secondary containment is available in many ways. Items including spill berms, spill pallets and containment tarps, all provide secondary containment or spill containment. What’s the difference between secondary containment and spill containment? Let’s stop right there. Spill containment stops spills, contains or blocks them! That can be done in various ways with many ...
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ACS Will Hold Free Webinar on Working Safely with Nanomaterials in the Laboratory
On May 16, 2019, the American Chemical Society (ACS) will hold a webinar on working safely with nanomaterials in the laboratory. Chuck Geraci, Associate Director for Emerging Technologies at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), will moderate a panel including: Ken Kretchman, Director of Environmental Safety, NC State University; Craig Merlic, Professor of ...
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DSH Systems award-winning loading spouts
DSH Systems produces award-winning loading spouts which ingeniously contain the dust within the product stream when discharging dry bulk materials. The DSH System cleverly avoids the need for the more complicated systems currently used in applications. Continue reading the full ...
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Fuel Spill Containment Fuel Storage Ideas
If you store fuel, you likely need to know about spill containment. At IPI we can help. The large selection of fuel spill containment products section includes secondary containment berms, fuel tanker & truck spill containment as well as solutions for the HEMTT spill containment applications. The diverse IPI line of fuel spill containment and related safety and environmental products also ...
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Co‐exposure of ZnO nanoparticles and UV radiation to Daphnia magna and Danio rerio: Combined effects rather than protection
The application of nanoparticles (NPs) in consumer products has been increasing over the past few years. Their release to the environment is likely to happen at any stage of production or usage of NPs‐containing products. Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO‐NP) are among the most used NPs in the market due to its intrinsic properties, such as UV absorption. The aim of this study was to assess the ...
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Strength of Grass Paving Structures
Many designers have questioned the strength of grass paving reinforcement structures to determine suitability for specific traffic and load bearing applications, and to compare products made by different manufacturers. We at Invisible Structures, Inc. would like to assure you about product strength as a design issue, and clarify all of the data contained in various forms of product information. ...
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Wilson Center Announces Updated Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory
On October 28, 2013, the Wilson Center announced that the updated Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory contains 1,628 consumer products that have been introduced to the market since 2005, which is a 24 percent increase since the last update in 2010. The Wilson Center states that the re-launched inventory “seeks to address scientific uncertainty with contributions from those involved ...
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Balancing product development in high-technology industry
Because it involves all levels of the organisation and crosses all functional boundaries, product development is very difficult to control. Unbalanced control is at the root of many of the symptoms of troubled product-development performance. The authors investigate the four primary unbalanced product-development behaviours exhibited by organizations and present four balancing mechanisms to ...
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How to Open and Dispense From a Drum in 7 Easy Steps
Why Buy Drums? For companies that use large amounts of liquid products, ordering drums makes sense. Buying one drum, rather than numerous smaller containers, can be a more economical way to purchase liquid chemicals such as Specialty Cleaners and Temporary Assembly Lubricants. Cost savings may be realized in reductions in product cost, packaging cost, and shipping cost. What’s the ...
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Preliminary investigations on recovery of zircon from alluvial pebbles
Owing to high demand of zircon, the exploitation of the sand deposits and recovery of zircon from such alternate sources is a priority at present. In this context, investigations were carried out on the recovery of zircon from river pebbles by gravity spirals and tables. The study revealed that the Run of Mine (ROM) sample contains 0.35% by weight Total Heavy Minerals (THMs) with 0.03% ZrO2. The ...
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Use of Nanoscale Materials in commercial sunscreen products
The decision that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will make on the citizen petition filed by the International Center for Technology Assessment to require FDA to amend its requirements for products containing nanomaterials will be a watershed event in the history of the regula-tion of products utilizing nanoscale materials.1 In this article, we will discuss the rise to prominence of ...
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EPA Accepting Submissions for 2019 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Awards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Federal Register notice on June 28, 2019, announcing that the EPA Safer Choice Program is accepting submissions for its 2019 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Awards. The Safer Choice Program partners with businesses and others to help consumers and commercial buyers identify products with safer chemical ingredients, “without ...
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Use of Nanoscale Materials in commercial sunscreen products
The decision that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will make on the citizen petition filed by the International Center for Technology Assessment to require FDA to amend its require-ments for products containing nanomaterials will be a watershed event in the history of the regula-tion of products utilizing nanoscale materials.1 In this article, we will discuss the rise to ...
By Acta Group
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Experimental determination of dose uniformity in the CDTN gamma irradiator
This paper describes an experimental study of dose uniformity within a container used for products irradiation, in the gamma irradiation facility at Nuclear Technology Development Center (CDTN). The CDTN is a research institute of the National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN), Brazil. Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) dosimeters were used in order to determine the Dose Uniformity Ratio (DUR) inside ...
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