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EIZO Accelerates Sustainability Efforts by Transitioning to Cardboard and Molded Pulp Packaging for Several of Its Monitors
EIZO will begin to transition from using environmentally-unfriendly packaging materials, such as styrofoam and plastic, to more sustainable cardboard and molded pulp. A total of seven models from the RadiForce and FlexScan monitor lineups, including the most recently announced FlexScan monitors, utilize to the environmentally-friendly packaging. In June 2021, EIZO released the medical monitor RadiForce…
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LG Chem develops advanced plastic materials that prevent battery’s thermal runaway
With its own technology and manufacturing methods, LG Chem has developed flame-retardant engineering plastic material that prevents deformation by heat. Thermal runaway, a main cause of fire in electric vehicle batteries, is a phenomenon where battery cell suffers stresses from various origins and heats up subsequently. Flames arise once battery’s internal temperature rises above a…
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EIZO announces 23.8-inch USB Type-C Docking Monitor the FlexScan EV2490
EIZO today announced the FlexScan EV2490 – a 23.8-inch, frameless IPS monitor with Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels) equipped with USB Type-C connectivity for streamlined hot desking and remote office work. The EV2490’s 23.8-inch, Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels) panel provides an option for users looking for a compact and versatile…
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Casio Announces Its First Watch Made With Biomass Plastics
Casio announced today its latest addition to the PRO TREK line of outdoor watches. The new PRW-61 is the first Casio watch to be made with biomass plastics sourced from renewable organic substances. For the first time in any Casio watch, the PRW-61 uses biomass plastics in the case, band, and case back. The environmentally…
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Hyundai Engineering to Churn Out Clean Hydrogen Using Waste Plastics
Hyundai Engineering., a plant engineering affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, announced that it will step into the high-purity clean hydrogen business by building a hydrogen production plant using waste plastics as resources in Dangjin, in Dangjin, about 120 kilometers south of Seoul. The Dangjin plant will process 100,000 tons of waste plastics per year to…
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Toppan launches plastic-free IC tag labels with paper as the antenna base material
Toppan Printing Japan, has developed an environment-friendly IC tag label that uses paper as the antenna base material in the low-priced IC tag series that manages product information used in the manufacturing and logistics fields. The antenna of the IC tag is formed by printing on a substrate with conductive ink. When paper was used…
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Razer unveils limited-edition Kanagawa Wave Apparel Collection made from marine plastics
Razer today announced the Kanagawa Wave Apparel collection, a range of limited-edition clothing made with materials created from recovered marine plastics. The apparel, emblazoned with a stylized take on the famous Great Wave off Kanagawa woodcarving, is designed to highlight the issue of marine plastics pollution and will fund efforts in reducing marine plastics to…
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Suzuki develops world’s first microplastic recovery device for outboard motors
Marine plastic waste has become a significant environmental issue in the recent years and a huge amount of such wastes that has not been gathered correctly flow into the ocean. They are then broken down into micro-plastic under the natural environment and their impact on the ecological system is also becoming a concern. To tackle…
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LG Display to unveil Crystal Sound OLED – a display with a sound system embedded in it and paper-thin OLED display at CES 2017
LG Display will showcase its cutting-edge displays at CES 2017 today. In an industry first, LG Display will introduce Crystal Sound OLED – a brand-new technology achievable only through OLED, as it does not require backlights. Crystal Sound OLED is a panel containing an embedded sound system – which essentially makes the display a standalone…
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BenQ Announces World’s First Desktop LED Lamp for e-Reading
BenQ today announced the world’s first a desktop LED Lamp for e-Reading- WiT lamp. With a simple touch to the BenQ WiT lamp’s control ring, users can activate the lamp’s intelligent e-Reading feature. The intelligent design ambient light sensor detects ambient brightness from other light sources and balances illumination, enhancing at the edges and dimming…
