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From Field to Fork

From Field to Fork

Many organizations throughout the supply chain have already launched traceability initiatives and have started to see the return on their investments.

A Top-Down Approach

A Top-Down Approach

Reflective roof restoration became popular not only for extending roof life, but also for reducing energy consumption and creating a more comfortable work environment.

Beverage Industry Trends

Beverage Industry Trends

Within the overall beverage industry, manufacturers expressed the most concern about containing and driving down costs wherever possible.

Making Money from Carbon Dioxide

Making Money from Carbon Dioxide

The merchant market for carbon dioxide is some 20 million metric tons of annual consumption, and this does not include CO2 quantities dedicated to energy and chemical production.

Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs: Three Cheers for Manufacturing

Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs: Three Cheers for Manufacturing

Through its manufacturing summer camps and scholarships, Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs is inspiring the next generation of manufacturers and other tinkerers.

Disaster Planning & Response

Disaster Planning & Response

Disaster: the word alone conjures images of your facility in the worst possible condition, not knowing how to respond to the event, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Load Cell Reliability in Washdown Environments

Load Cell Reliability in Washdown Environments

Heavy sanitation procedures can create scale problems, typically due to water infiltrating an electronic load cell and causing it to fail.

Preemptive Disaster Planning

Preemptive Disaster Planning

Many business continuity plans (BCPs) do not include established protocols for proving losses caused by a disaster.

Food Manufacturing Security Poll

Food Manufacturing Security Poll

Security has become less of a concern over the last year, with the percentage of Food Manufacturing readers worried about security issues in their plants dropping from 90 percent to 78 percent.

Advantages of Sealed Loading Dock Doors

Advantages of Sealed Loading Dock Doors

Leaky docks can be a major issue for product quality control due to airborne contaminants or temperature fluctuations.

Emergency Toxic Gas Shutoff

Emergency Toxic Gas Shutoff

17 hours ago | Products

Halogen Valve recently launched a line of Eclipse actuators, which quickly close toxic gas valves on 150-pound and 1-ton cylinders in less than a second.

We Regret to Inform You

We Regret to Inform You

19 hours ago | CHEM Blog

Just when I thought it was safe to get in front of my computer, I find out that it’ll kill me — and management knew all along.

From Field to Fork

From Field to Fork

19 hours ago | Articles

Many organizations throughout the supply chain have already launched traceability initiatives and have started to see the return on their investments.

Senate Passes Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension

Senate Passes Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension

20 hours ago | News

The Senate passed the American Workers, State and Business Relief Act, including H.R. 4213, which contains a retroactive extension of the $1/gallon biodiesel tax credit.

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Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act (and CFATS) by Luke Simpson

Dec 17 2009

Chemical and water facilities are high on the current administration's list of security priorities, with the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009 under review by lawmakers. The bill would broaden federal juristiction over facility secutiry, and would also make inherently safer

SuperSite: dictionary of metabolite and drug binding sites in proteins.

Feb 10

The increasing structural information about target-bound compounds provide a rich basis to study the binding mechanisms of metabolites and drugs. SuperSite is a database, which combines the structural information with various tools for the analysis of molecular recognition. The...

MMsINC: a large-scale chemoinformatics database.

Feb 10

MMsINC (http://mms.dsfarm.unipd.it/MMsINC/search) is a database of non-redundant, richly annotated and biomedically relevant chemical structures. A primary goal of MMsINC is to guarantee the highest quality and the uniqueness of each entry. MMsINC then adds value to these...

Targeted small-molecule inhibitors of protein kinase B as anticancer agents.

Feb 10

Protein kinase B (PKB or Akt) is a central component of the PI3K - PKB - mTOR signalling cascade and is firmly established as an attractive target for pharmacological intervention in cancer. A number of small molecule inhibitors with well-defined, direct molecular interactions...

Measure Twice, Criticize Less

Measure Twice, Criticize Less

Mar 9

The reality of the situation is that experts are predicting a world population of 9.5 billion by 2050 — meaning that our global food production will have to double.

On the Edge of my Driver’s Seat

On the Edge of my Driver’s Seat

Mar 8

Do the Renewable Fuel Standard bill and other green legislation leave you stranded on the edge of your driver’s seat?

Stalking the Weather Report

Stalking the Weather Report

Mar 8

Why do I check the weather three to five times a day? I think it's that weird habit that I go to when I am distracted, or bored, or shifting from one task to the next.

Egg Crisis 2010

Egg Crisis 2010

Mar 3

The situation is nothing to rival the coffee crisis of 2009 or the interoffice email crisis. We lost many good Cubites in the conflicts that ended with the dismantling of the Great Foam Wall.

Riddle Me This, Small Business

Riddle Me This, Small Business

Mar 2

Unlike banks, small businesses will hire people to produce goods and services.

Here's $8 Billion — What Now?

Here's $8 Billion — What Now?

Feb 17 | Video

David Ratcliffe, Chairman, President, and CEO of Southern Company, reacts to President Obama's announcement regarding the first federal loan guarantees for new nuclear construction.

Chlorine Tankers Shifted Away from Olympics

Chlorine Tankers Shifted Away from Olympics

Feb 11 | Video

A Canadian chemical manufacturer will store fifty chlorine-filled rail cars in Washington as a security measure during the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic games.

Chemical Processing of the Future?

Chemical Processing of the Future?

Jan 27 | Video

A theoretical bench-top factory that uses nano-sized production lines to sort atoms and fabricate atomically-precise devices.

Boeing's Biofuel-Powered Hydroplane

Boeing's Biofuel-Powered Hydroplane

Jan 20 | Video

Boeing is racing a hydroplane that uses a 50/50 blend of sustainable biofuel and jet fuel.