Chemicals & Energy

Tests Underway to Recover, Re-Use Flexible Plastic Packaging

September 30, 2016

With adequate screening and optical sorting capacity, flexible plastic packaging can be efficiently captured in a single-stream materials recovery facility, potentially creating a new stream of recovered materials while improving the quality of other recycling streams.

Fifty Percent Decline in Jet Fuel Propels Airlines to Nearly $40Bn Profit

September 28, 2016

L.A. Times

Famed investor Warren Buffett once warned that investing in airlines was "a death trap." He may be rethinking his view on the airline industry now that the trade group for the world's carriers has predicted that the industry will pocket a record $39.4bn this year.

Maersk Separates Struggling Shipping, Energy Operations Into Separate Companies

September 27, 2016

Maritime Executive

Danish shipping and oil conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk plans to separate its businesses into transport and energy divisions in a bid to better tackle the problems facing its struggling businesses.

Coalition Formed to Promote Climate Resilience Planning

September 23, 2016

Environmental Leader

Big data gives environmental and resource managers an invaluable tool to increase efficiencies and better manage risk.

Set of Best Practices to Ensure IoT Security Released by Consortium

September 21, 2016

Computerworld

IoT is complex, fast-growing and often intertwined with systems that govern things like water and power. That makes IoT security a critical requirement, but it's one that's not necessarily well understood.

Thermoformed Plastics Market Could See 5 Percent Growth Through 2020

September 13, 2016

Technavio

The global thermoformed plastics market is expected to grow at a CAGR of close to 5 percent during the period 2016-2020, according to Technavio's latest report.

Offshore Maintenance Market Expected to Bounce Back from Oil Price Decline

September 7, 2016

Maritime Executive

Forecasts call for a steady recovery from the recent oil price downturn in the offshore maintenance market with spending expected to improve significantly between 2017 and 2021.

Rates for Very Large Gas Carriers Likely to Remain Under Pressure

August 24, 2016

Drewry

A wave of cargo cancellations from the U.S. is putting additional pressure on Very Large Gas Carrier rates, according to the latest edition of the LPG Forecaster, published by global shipping consultancy Drewry.

New Tech Promises to Cut Costs, Carbon Emissions in Plastics Manufacturing

August 23, 2016

FuelFix

A new technology could dramatically reduce the costs and carbon emissions in the manufacturing of the world's plastics supplies, according to researchers from Exxon Mobil and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Administration Rolls Out New Fuel-Economy Standards for Trucks

August 19, 2016

The Washington Post

The Obama administration has finalized new fuel-economy standards for large trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles, the latest in a series of efforts aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions and weaning the nation from its dependence on fossil fuels.

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