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Compare Digester Systems
How Does Tissue Digester Technology Work? Tissue Digesters accomplish two primary tasks: sterilization and destruction of tissue and proteins. They utilize heat, agitation and pressure to break down and sterilize tissue, and can also employ a caustic chemical action as desired. The …
Think solvents are dead? Think again…
Every now and then we will hear something like solvents are dead from someone discussing the use of traditional flammable or combustible solvents in manufacturing processes. Indeed, over the last three decades there has been a shift toward aqueous or …
White Paper: Recycling Your Own Solvents
Solvents are relied upon in a great variety of processes, from printing and manufacturing to electronics and machining, for their superior cleaning and curing properties. Industry professionals from diverse organizations continue to agree that no substitute has been found to …
The Risk of Avian Flu
The Avian Flu outbreak of 2015 struck poultry farmers in various states across the United States, costing billions of dollars and thousands of jobs due to the destruction. Despite the vast amount of planning and preparation by the United States …
France confirms case of mad cow disease.
France’s agriculture ministry confirmed on Thursday that a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, had been discovered in the northeastern region of Ardennes. The suspected case, found in a five-year-old cow, was identified last week during …
Increasing Concern Hospital Superbugs Are Making it to the Ocean
Every day Southern California hospitals unleash millions of gallons of raw sewage into municipal sewers. The malodorous muck flows miles to one of the region’s sewage plants, where it is treated with the rest of the area’s waste and then released …
PRI Bio Selected to Provide NBAF Bio-Hazardous Waste Decontamination System
PRI-Bio Selected to Provide World’s Largest Bio-Hazardous Waste Decontamination System for U.S. Department of Homeland Security, National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) PRI Bio, a wholly owned division of Progressive Recovery, Inc., has been selected by McCarthy/Mortenson and DHS to …
Basics of the Process: Single Stage Distillation 101
Over the years we have encountered operators and supervisors who knew how their recovery system functioned and how to respond if they received an alarm signal on their system control panel, however these same folks did not understand the basic …
FTA InfoFlex 2016 Recap
This year’s InfoFlex was another great opportunity to see the innovations taking place in the Flexo industry, and get an idea of where the industry is going in the future. Congratulations to all of the Excellence in Flexography award winners …
Researchers Engineer GMO “Kill Switches” to Protect the Environment
The use of Genetically Modified Bacteria continues to become more common in consumer goods such as probiotics and yogurts. Because of the concern that genetically modified organisms may have a negative effect on the natural environment, researchers have developed ways …
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