Archives for October 25, 2010

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Moody’s: R&R Ice Cream well-placed to do more deals

By Elaine Watson

Ice cream maker R&R is well placed to make further sizeable acquisitions if it continues to improve margins, particularly in its French operations, according to credit ratings firm Moody's.

Scientists create biogradable styrofoam from milk

By Helen Glaberson

US scientists have used the protein in milk and clay to develop a new lightweight biodregradable styrofoam material which they claim could be a substitute for traditional foamed plastics.