The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the first U.S. industrial plants to be certified under the Superior Energy Performance program.

The company has added information on green initiatives, including a tutorial for understanding the components of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building rating and certification system.

The new facility is located at the company’s Zhangjiagang site in JiangSu province, approximately 98 km from Shanghai.

The value of the global market for renewable energy was nearly $225 billion in 2010, but is expected to increase to $331 billion in 2015, for a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.1%.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is accepting nominations for the 2011 Annual Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards.

This company, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Co., now offers Metatin Katalysator 1230 Catalyst, a dimethyltin catalyst that was developed as a new option for companies using dibutyltin and dioctylin catalysts.

World demand for emulsion polymers is forecast to rise 5.2% per year to 12.8 million metric tons in 2014, according to a new Freedonia Group study.

A biological adhesive may be able to prevent crop destruction by restricting the insect population. Researchers have found that the adhesives (containing insecticide or synthetic pheromones) would pass from one

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Sonoco has been ranked in the top 25% of the 500 largest publicly traded U.S. companies at 125th in Newsweek magazine’s Green Rankings for a second consecutive year.