But the same technologies are also used to make material for nuclear weapons.
Iran announced in April that it had succeeded in enriching uranium, a process necessary to produce fuel for nuclear power stations that can also be used to make material for nuclear bombs.
M&S is among a group of companies highlighted in the report, that lists a number of textile suppliers the NGOs claim make material for these companies and their alleged environmental violations.
But such reprocessing is also a path to making materials for nuclear weapons, so the United States discourages it abroad.
This quarter, the sale of its chemical products business, which made materials for LCDs and optical discs, helped alleviate losses.
REUTERS DuPont Buys Solar Materials Maker | DuPont said it had acquired Innovalight, a company that makes materials for solar cells, as the chemicals giant pushed further into the solar energy supply chain.
She is a daughter of A. Frederick Gerstell of Los Angeles and Barbara K. Gerstell of Vero Beach, Fla. Her father retired as the chairman of the CalMat Corporation in Los Angeles, which quarried and made materials for paving roads and for buildings.
While company co-founder Lance Pickens tells me that he sees SLA printers winning out in the long run, the company is hedging their bets and making materials for both types of printer.
The Rogers Corporation, which makes material for computers and wireless equipment, said it would close its manufacturing plant in Windham, Conn., by the end of the year.
Assessment of the entire Pennisetum gene pool would make material available for breeding programmes without causing genetic erosion or loss of varieties.
