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Business Definition for: Closed-loop Production System

  • an environmentally friendly production system in which any industrial output is capable of being recycled to create another product

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Neptune Industries, Inc. Accelerates Development of Its Closed Containment System Technology, the Aqua-Sphere(TM)
Neptune Industries, Inc. (OTCBB: NPDI) announced today that it has accelerated the development and testing of its patent-pending Aqua-SphereTM seafood production system at its site in Florida City, Florida. The Company is increasing its staff, and appointed Vice President of Operations, Michael Joubert, as the designated team leader to oversee...
Tags: Neptune Industries Inc.
Research articles 2007-05-18
Neptune Industries, Inc. Launches a Closed Containment Aquaculture System, The Aqua-Sphere(TM)
Neptune Industries, Inc. (OTCBB: NPDI) announced today that it has installed the first of its patent-pending Aqua-SphereTM seafood production systems at its new site in Florida City, Florida. The commencement of testing on this cutting-edge technology begins just as the National Organic Standards Board NOSB has issued its recommendations to...
Tags: cage
Research articles 2007-03-29
System allows cheaper closed moulding.(PROCESSING)
A simplified closed moulding system for the production of FRPs has been devised and introduced by Plastech TT, UK. Called the Monovac, as its name implies it features the use of only one vacuum source. It is described by the company, from Gunnislake, Cornwall, as...
Tags: Plastech Corp.
Research articles 2006-04-01
System allows cheaper closed moulding.(Equipment)
A simplified closed moulding system for the production of composites has been devised and introduced by Plastech TT, UK. Called the Monovac, as its name implies it features the use of only one vacuum source. It is described by the company, from Gunnislake, Cornwall, as an ...
Tags: Plastech Corp.
Research articles 2006-04-01
"BANKERS ELECTRONIC NETWORK" FROM AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION
For practitioners involved in the banking industry, the American Bankers Association (Washington, D.c.) has begun the production of the Bankers Electric Network, a new closed electronic information system. The new service is free until June 30. After tFor practitioners involved in the banking industry, the American ...
Tags: American Bankers Association, network
Research articles 1996-03-31
California plant closure will be first for Toyota
Toyota Motor Corp., a once-unstoppable but now money-losing automaker with idle production capacity, will stop making vehicles next year at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont, Calif. The decision, announced by Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and company officials and referred to as "most unfortunate," is momentous for...
Tags: General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp., UAW
News items 2009-08-28
NEWS IN BRIEF; Peso closed at P53.30
The peso closed at P53.30 to the US dollar last Friday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines. The weighted average rate stands at P53.254. The financial markets are closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for public holidays. Trading resumes Thursday. Honda...
Tags: Honda Motor Co.
Research articles 2002-12-01
US: Sienna joins Highlander in Toyota Indiana factory
Toyota has begun production of the 2011 Sienna minivan at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana TMMI in Princeton. Fully redesigned for North American buyers, the model was styled at the automaker's Calty Design Research Center in California and developed at its technical centre in Michigan. The Sienna joined the Highlander -...
Tags: Toyota Motor Corp.
News items 2010-01-22
New York's Image Group Post has opened a production/post-production facility. (in the Tiffany Building) (Brief Article)
New York's Image Group Post has opened a production/post-production facility in the city's Tiffany Building. The company's new Image Group Studio carries five online editing suites, two film transfer suites and three digital audio suites. The 60,000-square-foot facility also houses equipment for standards conversion, closed...
Tags: Avid Technology Inc.
Research articles 1994-07-18
NEWS IN BRIEF; P/$ rate closed at P56.295
The peso closed at P56.295 to the US dollar last Tuesday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines. The weighted average rate stands at P56.346. The financial markets are closed for the Easter holidays. Trading resumes on Monday. Toshiba shifts focus to...
Tags: Toshiba Corp.
Research articles 2004-04-10
Vestas attacks UKâ??s planning system as it posts 34% fall in profits
18-08-09 Danish-based wind turbine manufacturer Vestas, which last week closed two UK operations with the loss of 425 jobs, saw its year-on-year profits drop by 34% in the second quarter of 2009, it revealed today (August 18). The company, which is one of the world's largest manufacturers of wind operating...
Tags: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
News items 2009-08-18
World's Largest Family Cord Blood Bank Adopts GE Healthcare System for Processing Cord Blood
CHALFONT ST. GILES, England -- GE Healthcare, a subsidiary of the General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) and Cord Blood Registry CBR announced today that CBR is automating the key production steps for their cord blood stem cell units using GE Healthcare's AutoXpressTM System. AutoXpress is an automated, functionally-closed, sterile system that...
Tags: General Electric Co., stem-cell
Research articles 2006-08-22
Low-temperature technology: Closed-cycle air refrigeration.(Product Announcement)
LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. - Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., has introduced a breakthrough technology, known as the closedcycle air refrigeration ('CCAR') system, which uses high-pressure air to economically produce refrigeration at low temperatures ranging from -60 deg to -150 deg F (- 50 deg to -100...
Tags: C, Eastman Kodak Co., food, kW, Manufacturing, NIST, technology
Research articles 1998-11-09
NEWS IN BRIEF; P/$ rate closed at P55.845 to $1
The peso closed at P55.845 to the US dollar last Friday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines. The weighted average rate stands at P55.86. Farm output can still recover The countrys farm output in 2005 can still meet the governments...
Tags: Globe Telecom Inc.
Research articles 2005-07-17
NEWS IN BRIEF; P/$ rate closed at P55.89 to $1
The peso rate closed at P55.89 to the US dollar last Friday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines. The weighted average rate stands at P55.545. DA to cut rice importation Agriculture Secretary Domingo Panga-niban said he aimed to reduce the...
Tags: Boeing Co.
Research articles 2005-07-24
Microsoft gets by FTC again - four commissioners deadlock for second time; Microsoft begins mass production of Windows NT, to hit street in two weeks. (Federal Trade Commission, unfair trade practices case; Microsoft Windows NT operating system software)
Microsoft Begins Mass Production Of Windows NT, To Hit Street In Two Weeks For the second time in five months Federal Trade Commission officials have deadlocked 2-to-2 over whether to charge Microsoft Corp. with using unfair trade practices to dominate the multi-billion dollar ...
Tags: FTC, Microsoft Corp., SOFTWARE
Research articles 1993-08-02
IP increases medium deficit in its system
As previously announced, International Paper IP closed its 200,000 ton/yr semichemical medium mill at Terre Haute, IN, in October. The facility had a single 162-in trim paper machine, which also had the ability to produce lightweight medium. The mill used about 35-40% semichemical pulp in its furnish, with the remainder...
Tags: International Paper Co.
Research articles 2007-11-01
New cold-cure foam system for seat cushions eliminates need for crushing. (automotive).(Kumho Mitsui Chemicals Inc.)
Although cold-cure moulded foams dominate in the manufacture of automotive seat cushions in Korea, they suffer from one major drawback: the presence of a high proportion of closed cells. While these cells can be readily opened by techniques such as mechanical crushing or by subjecting the...
Tags: Kumho Mitsui Chemicals Inc., The Dow Chemical Co.
Research articles 2001-12-01
Netstal adds moulding system for DVD-R.(digital video disc)(Brief Article)
A SUB SYSTEM for the production of DVD-R discs in a cycle time of less than 8 seconds has been developed by Netstal, using its Discjet machine coupled with an AWM mould. Netstal says that the consumer market is now wide open for the...
Tags: Netstal Ltd.
Research articles 2001-05-01
As Refineries Close, New Stresses are Added to the System
In the past several weeks, we have seen many reports such as this: Colonial Pipeline Limits Gasoline Supply Shipments for Cycle 70 Colonial Pipeline Co., which operates the largest pipeline linking U.S. Gulf Coast refiners and East Coast markets, will limit shipments...
Tags: Refinery, Gasoline
News items 2009-12-05