Day: 6 October 2019

American Cleaning Institute Announces Bold Industry Goals to Shape a Cleaner, Healthier Worl

Stuart Mitchell

The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) launched its 2019 Sustainability Report, which details its new strategy calling on the cleaning products industry to take bolder, collective action to achieve a cleaner world.  Grounded in the key aspirations we all have for our society, ACI’s sustainability strategy aims to unite industry efforts for greater impact across four critical goals: Increase Transparency  Reduce Emissions  Value Nature   Contribute Positively  “We’re pushing our members to think bigger, be fearless and implement ever-more innovative solutions,” says Melissa Hockstad, ACI President and CEO. “Our new strategy…

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£149k for bid to use hydrogen from renewables to produce gin

Stuart Mitchell

Edinburgh Napier will play a key role in an investigation into the feasibility of hydrogen as a fuel to decarbonise the distilling process. The HySpirits project has been awarded £148,600 by the Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to conduct the study at The Orkney Distillery. The project will investigate the development of a thermal fluid heater system to operate with hydrogen as the combustion fuel within the distilling process. This system will remove the need to use fossil fuels such as kerosene and liquid petroleum gas. HySpirits brings together…

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Investment from Sky Ocean Ventures and Scottish Enterprise creates new jobs and enables expansion at CuanTec

Stuart Mitchell

CuanTec, the blue biotech company based in Motherwell and Oban, have completed an investment round with Sky Ocean Ventures and Scottish Enterprise that will enable them to process at pilot production scale and finalise their formulations. The investment will also create new jobs at the CuanTec lab at the European Marine Sciences Centre at Dunstaffange outside of Oban. The investment round has been led by Sky Ocean Ventures – Sky’s impact investment fund committed to accelerating ideas that can help turn off the plastics tap and the Scottish Investment Bank,…

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PRCA launches PRCA Russia to raise PR and communications standards in the region, consolidate the industry, and raise its profile internationally

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations Communications Association (PRCA) has launched PRCA Russia. Founded in 1969, the PRCA is the world’s largest PR professional body, operating in 66 countries around the world. PRCA Russia is the first PRCA organisation in Europe to be founded outside of the UK. It is also the first international organisation representing all areas of public relations and communication, and uniting major corporations, leading consultancies, and professionals within Russia. The new organisation will draw on PRCA’s 50 years of global experience representing the industry, grouping together multiple pre-established businesses…

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UN Women wins home Clio Gold Award and ADCOLOR MVP Award in 2019

Stuart Mitchell

The video series “Courage to Question” produced by UN Women and Google has been awarded ADCOLOR’s Most Valuable Partners (MVP) Award. Additionally, the campaign “Closer Than You Think”, produced by UN Women’s National Committee in Iceland has been awarded the Clio Gold Award. “Closer Than You Think” puts a focus on violence against women, asking men to read true stories of gender-based violence, written by women survivors. The film captures their reactions as the men learn that they were in the same room with the survivor at the end of…

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