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Top Glove wins major sustainability and CSR award for community outreach

The world’s largest glove manufacturer was named ‘Company of the Year for Overall Excellence in Sustainability and CSR’, in recognition of the comm...

Stancold announces carbon neutral status

The construction company with a cleanroom specialist team has been assisted by carbon consultants Future Leap to identify the most carbon-intensive...

SOPs: Reduce, redesign, rearrange

There are a range of factors that influence cleanroom particle management. Making some small but vital considerations about SOPs upfront can make a...

Alfa Laval appoints WHP to enhance engineering sustainability

WHP Engineering has been chosen as Alfa's authorised integrator

Centrient boosts sustainable statins API manufacturing capacity

Centrient Pharmaceuticals has completed a new facility in India for its sustainably manufactured Atorvastatin and Rosuvastatin active pharmaceutica...

Designing future-proof and sustainable labs

Laboratory space is more expensive to build and run than most other facilities, so getting better performance and value out of labs is critical. Su...

HVAC tip: sensor maintenance

Pressure to reduce energy consumption in HVAC is mounting and so demand controlled ventilation (DCV) and free cooling are gaining popularity. Lars...

GEA offers Sustainable Energy Solutions to improve plant efficiency

Due to a growing number of rules and regulations, GEA notes, there is a need for the industry to reduce its carbon footprint and become more energy...

Liverpool university team makes sulphur-based plastic feasible

A new catalytic process for producing sulphur-based polymers has reduced the cost of reaction conditions and improved its physical properties

Saving energy in cleanrooms

Cleanrooms consume large amounts of energy and it is common for power requirements to be specified based on norms without a clear understanding of...

Eco-friendly disposables wanted

Last year was a challenging year for the cleanroom apparel market, which was hit with changes in the PPE directive along with a call for more envir...

Nottingham University leads the way in sustainable labs

Delegates at S-Lab's Labs of the Future event were invited to tour the ground-breaking Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry at the U...

Saving for the sake of the science

Managing a research laboratory in the face of rising bills can lead to a stark choice: make savings or cut back on the science. For the Hutchison M...

ÅF delivers super-efficient energy modelling for new Swedish hospital

The modelling of the hospital building and laboratory and has led to significant time and cost savings

Built to a near zero carbon footprint – Masdar Institute of Science & Technology

The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) in Abu Dhabi, UAE is one of the world’s most sustainable facilities with a near net zero carb...