Significant progress has been made on thermochemical conversion of swine waste to crude oil in the last 10 years, but chemical engineers are not rushing to market.
A six-year project to win US EPA approval for a new commercial sterilant suitable for PET bottles reached a successful conclusion October 30 for Ecolab Inc.
The retortable paperboard container may have stumbled out of the blocks, but Tetra Pak believes it’s a winner for tomato-based products-and it has the retail sales data to prove it.
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It sounds like the alchemist’s dream of turning lead into gold: a clean-in-place sanitation system that never requires changing water. It’s not alchemy, however, but chemical engineering and the principle of photon initiated oxidation, PIOx for short.
Europeans of a certain age can date themselves by waxing nostalgic about the quadrahedron pyramid that ushered in Tetra Pak as a major player in aseptically packaged milk.
Exhibitors at the Green Valley Brewery booth at last spring’s All Things Organic trade show created a buzz for their Wild Hop organic beer by whispering, “We have a distribution deal with Anheuser-Busch.”
A burst of steam and a jigger of bactericide in a high-speed packaging machine might provide hot-dog packers with a Listeria monocytogenes silver bullet.
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