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IMMa formation announced

International Mining & Minerals Association
15 Mar 2007
At the meeting of the Council of the Institute held on 8th November 2006, it was agreed that an umbrella organisation be formed to cover common matters of the former IMM divisions.
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Women’s Institute top the bill at Open Innovation in Consumer Packaging

IOM3
13 Mar 2007
The Women’s Institute and Unilever will head a cast of speakers at a seminar programme from IOP: The Packaging Society, to take place at the Packaging Innovation Show at Total Processing & Packaging 2007 at the Birmingham NEC.
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Packet nutritional label

Informative packaging helps consumers understand nutrition?

Packaging Professional magazine
1 Mar 2007
UK Retailers have developed conflicting voluntary front-of-pack nutritional labelling systems that they claim enable customers to make healthier food choices more quickly. Organisations such as the Food Standards Agency (FSA), with Sainsbury's and Waitrose, support colour-coded signposting, while manufacturers such as Danone and Kellogg's have joined forces with Tesco and Morrisons, to promote the Guideline Daily Amount (GDA) label scheme. An independent Project Management Panel (PMP) intends to review research results and adopt the most effective system.
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Global laboratory allows remote access to materials analysis equipment

Materials World magazine
1 Mar 2007
Researchers at Imperial College, London, UK, can remotely operate the aberration-corrected electron microscope at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, while teams at Oak Ridge and the Georgia Institute of Technology can use Imperial's nuclear magnetic resonance facility. The Global Lab is part of a joint venture between Imperial, Georgia, and Oak Ridge to investigate future energy solutions.
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Energy efficient bearings from SKF

Materials World magazine
1 Mar 2007
Bearings from SKF, based in Sweden, use 30% less energy as a result of design innovations relating to surface topography, raceway profiles, optimised internal geometry, a special polymer cage, lower friction grease and, for tapered roller bearings, an optimised set of rollers. This will be exploited in heavy industry, wind energy and conveyors and extruders for materials processing.
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