12 March 2014
Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) hosted the inaugural All Ireland New Technology Forum & Society of Plastics Engineers Annual Conference on Thursday, 6th March. The 400 delegate conference was officially opened by Dr. Ruaidhrí Neavyn, President of WIT and was co-hosted with Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT). The conference, titled “From Convergence, via Translation, to [...]
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12 March 2014
EU states would have to reduce the consumption of most common and polluting plastic bags by 80% by 2019, under draft rules backed by the Environment Committee on Monday. To this end, MEPs recommend using economic instruments such as taxes and levies, marketing restrictions or bans. Plastic carrier bag litter is a major environmental concern, [...]
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10 March 2014
Biotechnology is among today’s most innovative technologies and is a significant driver of economic growth within the bioeconomy. We are now able to produce bio-based products in more eco-efficient and sustainable ways. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working in the biotechnology field, which are behind much of the innovation and job creation taking place in [...]
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10 March 2014
When the first issue of McKinsey Quarterly rolled off the printing presses, 50 years ago, nearly everyone in senior management thought that manufacturing operations had been perfected. Henry Ford’s great innovation, the moving assembly line, had been refined over the previous five decades, had served as the arsenal of democracy during World War II, and [...]
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07 March 2014
New features help to visualise with greater clarity the information available on the harmonised and self-classified substances submitted to the Inventory. ECHA has released a new update of the C&L Inventory.The changes implemented improve the information visualised on the summary of the classification and labelling page. The highlights are: Impurity flags for notified substances where [...]
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06 March 2014
Biomass installer, Thermal Earth, have been delivering the highly regarded HETAS biomass courses from their new training academy since January 2013. Demand for the biomass qualifications has continuously risen throughout the year and is set to soar with the imminent arrival of domestic RHI this Spring. Thermal Earth was the first training centre to run [...]
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06 March 2014
Aramark spends €60 million annually supporting Irish suppliers Dublin, March 5th 2014 – Aramark Ireland is partnering with GIY (Grow It Yourself), the not-for-profit organisation dedicated to inspiring people to grow their own food, to launch this year’s ‘Celebrate Irish Food’ campaign. This year’s campaign, which will run between March 10th and 14th, will see [...]
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03 March 2014
The Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation today (Thursday) published the Action Plan for Jobs 2014, [pdf, 1.18MB] the third annual instalment in the Government plan aimed at building a sustainable growing economy and creating jobs. The Plan builds on the more than 500 measures already implemented through Action Plan [...]
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03 March 2014
One of Ireland’s leading wind-turbine producers, Airsynergy, has raised €2m in funding, which it hopes to put back into new clean-tech projects. Founder and chief executive of the Longford-based company, Jim Smyth, said the company raised the €2m from existing and new investors in its fourth funding round over the past seven months, bringing total [...]
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25 February 2014
Ireland’s largest gathering of senior management from the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector will convene on Aviva Stadium tomorrow to attend the Future in Pharmaceuticals Ireland event. Over 250 representatives from the Irish pharmaceutical sector will listen to industry leaders discussing the important aspect of sustainability within this important employment sector. Ronan McGlade (Event Organiser) says; “It [...]
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25 February 2014
The European Commission is referring Ireland to the Court of Justice of the EU for failing to fully transpose the EU internal energy market rules. To date, Ireland has only partially transposed the Electricity Directive (2009/72/EC). [pdf, 1.19MB] The aim of the Directive is to ensure that electricity is generated, transported and sold in competitive [...]
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25 February 2014
Speaking at the release of the EPA’s review of 2013, Laura Burke, EPA Director General said, “2013 was a year of significant achievement for the Environmental Protection Agency in challenging circumstances as the Agency continues to extend its work in protecting the environment in our role as environmental regulator, knowledge provider and advocate for the [...]
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