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- Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your business
- Of course our government cannot really tell us the truth about things like "weapons of mass destruction," or the true costs of various wars and occupations, or the size of the CIA's budget, because we're so silly and can't be trusted to understand. Turns out, we can't be told...
- Tags: Chemicals, Health Care, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, European Union, Government Accounting Office, Naphthalene, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Little nation has big green ideas
- Little nation has big green ideaserronious dataThere are quite a few misconceptions regarding the Portuguese Economy that must be corrected. The information that you have is about 30 years out of date.Chief export: Machines and transport equipment, Chemicals, Textile, Wood/paper productsAgriculture: makes up less than 5% of GDPFertilizers and other...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, chemicals
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Warwick International Builds Growing Business on Scalable, Flexible, Best-in-Class Functionality
- Leading European specialty chemicals provider Warwick International Limited manufactures and markets chemicals for a diverse range of industrial applications. Warwick International wanted to leverage best manufacturing technology advances to reinforce lean planning, scheduling, and order management processes and optimize the value of human capital through training and career management while...
- Tags: Chemicals, Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Order Management, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Mobile Solution Helps Specialty chemicals and Materials Company Improve Customer Focus
- Global specialty chemicals and materials company Cytec Industries develops, manufactures, and sells value-added products to markets such as aerospace, adhesives, automotive and industrial coatings, inks, and plastics. In April 2006, the company began searching for a mobile solution that would give its global work force around-the-clock access to Microsoft Office...
- Tags: Chemicals, Solution, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Time Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Online Communications, Software, Productivity
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Let's play spin the bottle
- Everybody gets to put their spin on the safety or danger of the plastic bottles that line our shelves, fill our landfills and litter our lives. Just today the "New York Times" style section has a piece on the greenness of bringing your own water bottle with you. ...
- Tags: Chemicals, Uncertainty, Bottle, Nalgene, NRDC, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Biofuels and Specialty chemicals Firm Implements Project in Record Time With SAP Best Practices
- FutureFuel Chemical Company was in a very unusual situation when a chemicals industry giant sold it in late 2006. For a while, FutureFuel continued to use its former parent company's SAP software installation, but that was hardly a long-term solution. Therefore, to achieve independence, FutureFuel set several high priorities. It...
- Tags: Chemicals, SAP AG, Best Practice
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Can chemicals in iPhone headphone cable ruin your sex life?
- Can chemicals in iPhone headphone cable ruin your sex life?:)Population control?LOLCouple of questions...What is considered a sufficient amount of Bromine to affect your sex life?How much is in the iPod products mentioned?What exposure might a person actually get?Bottom line: what is the actual risk?No surprises hereGreenpeace has been on an...
- Tags: cable, Apple iPhone, Greenpeace, headphone cable, sex life, chemicals, headphone
- Discussion threads 2007-10-15
- Can chemicals in iPhone headphone cable ruin your sex life?
- According to "independent laboratory" tests cited on Greenpeace's International's website this morning,about half of 18 tested internal and external components of the iPhone contain bromated compounds. "An independent scientific laboratory tested 18 internal and external components of the iPhone and confirmed the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Headphone, Chemicals, Headphone Cable, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Can we grow drugs?
- Drugs are produced in laboratories, in factories. Can they be produced in greenhouses instead? New research indicates they can. Ka Yiu San, who got his B.S. from Rice the year after I got my B.A. there, has been inserting genes in bacterium, then using...
- Tags: Food, Chemicals, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- SAP XMII Helps chemicals Company Integrate Processes Across the Board
- NOVA Chemicals Corporation (NOVA) is moving toward increasing integration between the plant floor and executive suite. This move provides visibility for operators and manufacturing vice presidents alike by supplying role-based access to real-time information ? enabling them to adapt to operations, which maximizes corporate profitability. NOVA took one step closer...
- Tags: Chemicals, Board, SAP AG, Engineering, Corporate Governance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Desktops, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Opryland ain't jest countree, it's GREEN country
- Down Nashville way the Gaylord Corporation is trying to live with fewer toxic chemicals. They cook 1.5 million meals a year, maintain over two thousand guest rooms and nien acres ofindoor gardens. All that with pest control handled by mother nature. They use various...
- Tags: Chemicals, Pest, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Is that compostable or recyclable?
- At AlwaysOn Going Green conference in Davis tonight, that was the clarion call from environmental architect, William McDonough. He and a chemist wrote the book Cradle to Cradle. McDonough is also involved now with Vantage Point, a V.C. firm. After that they set up a...
- Tags: Chemicals, Earth, Pollution, McDonough, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Low-Toxic Cleaning Recipes For Your Home! (zip)
- Low-Toxic Cleaning Recipes is a compilation of 3 of the most used cleaners, and recipes for low-toxic versions. A typical home or office has dozens of cleaning and personal care products that contain harmful chemicals. Please take a moment and count the number of cleaners under your kitchen and bathroom...
- Tags: Chemicals, Cleaner, Indiana, Low-Toxic Cleaning Recipes
- Software downloads 2007-07-03
- chemicals Firm Lowers Costs and Boosts Collaboration With Portal Technology
- Toray Saehan produces and distributes a variety of chemical products for global customers. To improve its operational efficiency and inter-department work processes, the company selected a Microsoft .NET based portal technology featuring real-time messaging, knowledge sharing and collaboration for the whole organization. The enhanced interconnectivity and expandability has reduced overlapping...
- Tags: Chemicals, Collaboration, Knowledge, Microsoft Corp., Toray Saehan, Portals, Web Technology, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- Apple's Jobs throws HP and Dell under the Prius
- Apple has taken its share of environmental hits and CEO Steve Jobs has had enough. And hes willing to throw HP and Dell under the Prius while hes at it. In a blog post dubbed "A Greener Apple" Jobs outlines...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, General, Dell, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- MoleView (exe)
- View, render, and rotate 3D molecules. This will help to understand the chemicals formula of the chemical compound. MoleView was to write a fast 3D sphere drawing algorithm. All the atoms in Moleview are actually 3D spheres. They are plotted in both X, Y, and Z directions.
- Tags: 3D, Chemicals
- Software downloads 2006-01-03
- The Total Customer Experience: Best Practices of Cisco, Lands' End, and Air Products and chemicals
- Regardless of whether we are business customers or independent consumers, we desire "one version of the truth." Learn how best-practice organizations provide one version of truth to employees and customers, thus creating a singular customer experience. This report offers deep insights into a variety of factors that impact and contribute...
- Tags: Chemicals, APQC, Experience, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice
- White papers
- Air Products and chemicals Uses Visual Tools to Deliver Innovative Solutions Quickly
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. delivers a broad range of products to diverse industries; from glass coatings for the architectural industry, to hydrogen for energy production, to gases for semiconductor chip making. The challenge was to efficiently harness Air Products' intellectual capital to create market-leading products. Air Products and Chemicals...
- Tags: Chemicals, Tool, Mindjet, Strategy, Semiconductors, Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Twenty Sites Four Countries - Enterprise-Wide Re-Engineering Across All Operations With SAP R3 for Millennium chemicals
- Millennium Chemicals Inc. (MCH) is a major international company with leading market positions in a broad range of commodity, industrial, performance and specialty chemicals. MCH had inherited disparate IT systems from several company acquisitions. In order to integrate company operations across borders, Millennium Chemicals Inc. decided to implement the ERP...
- Tags: Chemicals, Capgemini, SAP AG, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Going Global: OnDemand Personal Navigator Helps Millennium chemicals Pull It All Together
- Millennium Chemicals is the world's second-largest producer of titanium dioxide. In a 1999 effort to pull together its global organization, Millennium began implementing SAP 3.1h. With plants all over the world, Millennium needed a unified business process. Since Millennium was close to completing a global SAP implementation for more than...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Chemicals, On-demand, Netscape Navigator, SAP AG, Training, Millennium Chemicals, Workforce Management, Operational Planning, Human Resources, Business Operations
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