Kraft Foods Joins Enval’s Recycling Consortium

Enval , a provider of recycling and environmental technology solutions headquartered in Cambridge, U.K., has announced that Kraft Foods has signed up to join Enval’s consortium to support the construction of its first commercial scale plant for its patented material recovery technology. The project will be built at the company’s facility in Luton, U.K.

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X-Ray Vision

Being able to separate wanted from unwanted material has always been the goal in the recycling industry, and with good reason: Knowing the type or quality of the material coming into a yard prevents pricing errors and helps supply the cleanest scrap material to customers. It saves scrap recyclers time and provides them with the most profit. High-quality separated materials produce the highest quality final product

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TrynEx International’s Big Move

TrynEx International , the Madison Heights, Mich.-based manufacturer of SnowEx, TurfEx and SweepEx product lines, has moved into a new plant in the same city. According to TrynEx, the company chose the new location because it would allow for future expansion and a new manufacturing system through a partnership with the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC). The new building is 130,000 square feet and contains multiple new features designed to improve the assembly and shipping processes.

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Axion International Announces Expansion Plans

Axion International , New Providence, N.J., has announced plans to double production capacity for its line of recycled structural composites products, notably the company’s industrial products and railroad ties made from 100 percent recycled plastic.

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Cascades Investing in Technology to Produce Tissue Products with Less Energy

Cascades Inc. has announced a planned investment in a new technology that will allow the company to produce high end tissue products with fewer recycled fibers

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Cascades Investing in Technology to Produce Tissue Products with Less Energy

U.S. Retailers Should Watch Visa’s TIP

Visa's recently announced Technology Innovation Program (TIP) made a lot of news, but it is not the PCI equivalent of a get-out-of-jail-free card for merchants.

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ONC awards additonal $12M to 48 RECs for EHR adoption

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded an additional $12 million to 48 regional extension centers serving critical access hospitals and rural hospitals to help them make the switch to electronic health records.

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1,300 Current And Former Students Full Names, Social Security Numbers And Date Of Births Accessible On Website

Wentworth Institute of Technology data loss incident circa 2010-12-22

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1,300 Current And Former Students Full Names, Social Security Numbers And Date Of Births Accessible On Website

Data Storage Group Receives Patent for Data Deduplication Technology

Data Storage Group (DataStor), a Colorado-based data backup and disaster recovery software firm, has reported that the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded the company a patent for its core data deduplication technology. In a press release, DataStor claims that its software-based approach, known as Adaptive Content Factoring, offers significant advancements and operational efficiencies in data backup and archival storage for small to medium-sized businesses

Privacy Expert To Congress: Mandate More Protections

The Center for Democracy & Technology is recommending to Congress a series of steps to go beyond the HITECH Act and further improve the privacy and security of health information.

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Privacy Expert To Congress: Mandate More Protections