Paperboard tubes, typically produced for the sheet or fiber material converting industries, have been used in a number of unique and often prototype architectural and structural engineering application since the late 1980s.
My provisional bottom line today: Saddam had the intent and capability to quickly convert civilian industry to chemical weapons production.
Associate professor Ian O'Hara from Queensland University of Technology's Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities is leading a $5.7m project (with $2.1m Arena funding) to convert the industry's crop wastes (which are usually either burnt or left to degrade) into renewable fuels for farming and transportation.
Big tobacco firms may master them, but it would be a radical shift, akin to converting the car industry from internal-combustion engines to battery power.
Despite the potential benefits to students, universities, and industry, converting conventional campus courses into cyber-learning offerings will not be plain sailing.
Achieving this production cost target, which is benchmarked against projections for crude oil prices, will enable the start of a viable industry converting lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol.
They converted wartime industries to peacetime development.
Mr. Benmosche, meanwhile, who made his mark on the insurance industry by converting the giant MetLife from a mutual to a publicly traded company, was supposed to be the hard-charging insurance executive who would sell A.I.G.'s prized subsidiaries at what he deemed fair prices and rebuild the company for the taxpayers instead of dismantling it.
The process, launched in Britain back in the 1800s thanks to the slave trade and the industrial revolution, really took off, Pollan reckons, after the second world war, when we "emerged from years of rationing - so ready to binge on sugar, meat, white flour - just as industry was converting from making bombs to making fertiliser, and nerve gases to pesticides".
