Dynacast Ltd. is planning a $2.4 million-plus expansion at its Peterborough, ON, die cast metal manufacturing operation and is getting a little help from the Ontario government with $240,000-plus grant. The grant comes from the Eastern Ontario Development Fund (EODF).

Climate change and sustainable ingredients are the focal themes of the fourth edition of the Sustainable Foods Summit taking place in Amsterdam on 23-24 June 2011.

Temiscaming, QC – Forest products company, Tembec, announced that it will build a pilot plant for the development of a high performance structural product known as Next Generation Sustainable Fibre. This project is based on a Tembec patented process that combines Forest Stewardship Council (“FSC”) certified pulp and FSC certified lignosulfonates with a modified phenolic resin to produce a structural material with unique strength-to-weight and durability characteristics.

Unilever Canada has announced it is now the single largest commercial purchaser of renewable energy in Canada, greening 59,000 MWh of electricity—enough energy to power more than 6,000 homes—through Bullfrog Power , Canada’s 100 per cent green energy provider.

Pelee Island, Ont. – An Ontario winery is expanding its business – with the help of Ontario’s Rural Economic Development Program. Pelee Island Winery & Vineyards will expand its Kingsville winery with a new bottling line, wine filtration system and one million additional litres of storage capacity

Global industrial group Sandvik announces that Peter Gossas, President of Sandvik Materials Technology, will retire and leave the group on May 31 and Jonas Gustavsson, currently President of the Wire and Heating Technology product are within Sandvik Materials Technology, will take up his role from May 1.As of the same date, Mr Gustavsson will be a member of Sandvik’s Group Executive Management. Born in 1967, he holds an M.

India is today an important producer and consumer of PM parts and an important member of the international PM community.

India is today an important producer and consumer of PM parts and an important member of the international PM community. To conclude his series of reports from India’s PM11 conference and exhibition, Professor Ramamohan looks back at the story of PM in India

CALGARY: TransAlta Corp. is moving ahead with construction of the 66-megawatt New Richmond wind project located on the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec. A decree was issued from the Quebec government March 25 allowing TransAlta to begin pre-construction work in April. Commercial operations are to begin in the fourth quarter of 2012.

BOLDER, COLO— Foodservice manufacturer Eco-Products has launched the first-ever hot cup lid with recycled content. “While most of the industry has been focused on sustainable alternatives for paper hot cups, the lids for those cups have largely been ignored,” said Luke Vernon, COO of Eco-Products. That’s despite the fact that hot lids usually contain twice as much plastic as the lining of the actual cup and billions of virgin polystyrene lids are used each year in the U.S