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There is an ominous man-made perfect storm raging across the world’s overdepleted and overpolluted oceans, but until recently most Canadian consumers have been blissfully unaware of just how calamitous worldwide overfishing and marine degradation have been to the once-bountiful food source normally taken for granted in a nation blessed with vast coastal exposure to three of the world’s five oceans. Tom Janes is determined to put an end to that cozy ignorance and indifference in a hurry—well before the world’s fast-vanishing commercial fishstocks begin to disappear in their entirety

Thordon Bearings builds its global business making rudder and shaftline products that use seawater for lubrication. George Thomson always wanted to be a filmmaker, but like many children born into a family business, he ended up taking over the company instead.

HOOFDDORP, NETHERLANDS: Global supply chain management company CEVA Logistics held its first global Supplier Awards on July 14, which recognize execution, commitment and strategic alignment among CEVA’s supplier base.

Canadian business leaders from a cross-section of industries met at Purchasingb2b’s sustainability roundtable on April 12, 2011. The event was sponsored by Grand & Toy, a Canadian Business solutions provider dedicated to promoting thought leadership on sustainability and strategic procurement in the Canadian supply chain and procurement industry

SAN FRANCISCO— The New York Times recently reported on a lawsuit underway in the U.S. , where three plastic bag producers are suing a company for exaggerating the environmental impact of plastic

Canadian manufacturer, Thordon Bearings’ seawater lubricated propeller shaft bearings have been shortlisted for the Ocean Environmental Production Award at the 2011 Sustainable Shippng Awards to be held in London, England, July 7, 2011. [ Full Story ]

While the scale of impact caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan remains to be measured, good news is that the disaster has so far caused little to no impact to the operations of many of the Japanese machine tool companies.According to the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake Machine Tool Facilities Damage Situation survey on 19 production facilities comparatively near the earthquake source in Tohoku and the Chuetsu region, conducted by the Japan Machine Tool Builders’ Association (JMTBA), as of March 14, only one person was reported injured, none killed or missing, six factory buildings damaged (including minor damages), and one machine damaged.Mori Seiki says in a notice posted on its website that all its related employees and families are safe, and only minor damages are seen in its Chiba and Isehara sites.Yamazaki Mazak confirms that no employees or their family members were injured in the disaster and only its Sendai Technology Center and the Tsukuba Technology Center received minor damages.Mitsui Seiki says they did not experience any loss or injury to its personnel and the factory damage was not serious.

Types Of Engineering, The Blog For Engineering Students & Engineers Debuts Today Cambridge, Massachusetts – Today a new blog-based website was launched called “Types Of Engineering” designed as a meeting place for engineers and engineering students to get advice, share ideas and talk about today’s engineering challenges at Types Of Engineering The website is published by the Industrial Leaders Group (ILG) and provides information on transportation, aerospace, ocean, agricultural, nuclear, architectural, mineral & mining, biomedical, metallurgy, chemical, mechanical, civil, manufacturing, industrial, electrical and computer engineering fields.

MONTREAL: The Montreal Port Authority, CN and the two companies operating the port’s key container terminals have reached agreements focusing on supply chain efficiencies. The first agreement was signed by CN, the port authority and Montreal Gateway Terminals Partnership (MGT), which operates the CAST and RACINE terminals.