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No more BPA for you

The problem, as always, is that it's going to cost you. And not just in money. Polycarbonate, the type of plastic most likely to leach BPA, is inexpensive, durable and can deal with rigorous manufacturing processes. One alternative is stainless steel. Polypropylene is another. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Bottle, Steel, BPA, Polypropylene, Manufacturing, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-06

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Mirage Nanosat 5.1

It's safe to say that the Mirage Nanosat 5.1 Home Theater sounds unlike any box-type satellite/subwoofer combination system on the market. While conventional box speakers project sound forward, the Nanosat speakers are designed to produce a ratio of 30 percent direct and 70 percent reflected sound. The direct sound heads...

Tags: Nanosat, speaker, Nanosat speaker, satellite, deflector

Product reviews 2009-03-25

Rethinking explosives to power tools, implode tumors, and clear arteries

For most, explosive detonations illicit visions of building demolition and Mythbusters-style car bombs. But in a keynote at ETech today, Dr. Christa Hockensmith from the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center EMRTC, explained new creative applications that are, both, in research and "untried, untested, unrealized." "I'm not...

Tags: Chemicals, Explosion, Diamond, Tool, Research Center, Productivity, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-11

M-Audio Studiophile AV 40

Not to sound condescending, but M-Audio's Studiophile AV 40 Desktop Speaker System makes most PC and multimedia speakers seem rather puny by comparison. It's not just their size (the M-Audio speakers resemble desktop studio monitors); if you listen to a lot of CDs, watch DVDs, or play games on your...

Tags: speaker, M-Audio, Studiophile AV 40

Product reviews 2008-03-27

Flexible transistors for your clothes

Physicists from Austria and the U.S. have built ultra-thin pressure sensors which can be woven into sensitive textiles. In "Haute couture from the experimental physics lab," they say that their new thin-film transistors TFTs can switch back and forth in reaction to pressure. To achieve this effect, they coupled TFTs...

Tags: transistor

Blog posts 2006-10-01

Giants throw in the towel on TV tech

Giants throw in the towel on TV techI hope someone gets it right.The theories are sound. Making it profitable is the problem.I hope they get it right, because plasma is the pits. Fans and heat, etc.Starts to look like ISDNInteresting how a technology that seems to have so...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Consumer electronics, theory, LCD, Profitable LCOS, CRT, DLP, TV

Discussion threads 2004-12-28

FlowCalc 1.0 (Mobile)

FlowCalc is a feature-packed program for design, process, and field engineers. Included in FlowCalc are standard pipe tables for stainless steel, carbon steel, cast iron, PVC, CPVC, PVDF, and polypropylene pipe and copper tubing. Also included are calculators for flows over various types of weirs, in open horizontal pipes, in...

Tags: Pipe, Mobile, Handheld Engineering, FlowCalc, Future Upgrade, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-10-11

Petroquímica Cuyo Reduces IT Costs by 35%

Petroquimica Cuyo is Argentina's first national capital company with focus on the production and sale of polypropylene. The company wanted to integrate all company information onto a single platform for greater efficiency. The challenge was to improve processes and technology to achieve efficient inventory management, reduce IT costs and generate...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Information Technology, IT Cost, Petroquímica Cuyo, Petroquimica Cuyo, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management

Case studies

Litoplas Improves Response Time With Internet Environment

Litoplas is Colombia's leading conversion and flexography impression packaging (polyethylene, polypropylene, etc) company. The company wanted to centralize the information and update the technological infrastructure at the software level. The challenge was to standardize and adapt Litoplas' interface for the web environment at all levels of applications and quickly and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Litoplas, Portals, Internet, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Software

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SAP Enterprise Service Select Helps a Leading Plastics Manufacturer Transform Its Business

Toray Plastics America Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of polypropylene and polyester film and foam products. The company wanted to build a solid foundation for continuous improvement activities and streamline corporate structure. The challenge was to improve customer satisfaction, increase information access for better decision making and standardize business...

Tags: SAP AG, Plastics, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software, Business Operations

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SAP Consulting Guides the Business Process Changes, Then Helps Implement the Tools to Make Them Work

Founded in 1969, SI Corporation develops and markets innovative polypropylene-based products used for flooring, construction materials, soil stabilization processes, home furnishings, and filtration systems. The company wanted to replace outdated, nonintegrated legacy systems. The challenge was to speed up financial closings and find the right implementation partner. As a solution...

Tags: Business Process, Financial, SAP AG, Tool, SAP Consulting, Hardware Upgrade, Construction, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Hardware, Finance, Business Operations

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Applied Extrusion Technologies Wraps Up Major ROI With HP Storage 150+ Percent Return on Investment

As one of the world's leading makers of Oriented PolyPropylene OPP films Applied Extrusion Technologies AET is highly sensitive to the rising costs of oil-derived OPP resins. The increased pressure on AET's IT infrastructure pushed its clustered EMC-based SAN systems to their limit. AET needed an easy-to-use, highly available SAN...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SAN, ROI, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

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