Advanced composites company TenCate and chemical company BASF have partnered to develop and produce thermoplastic composite materials for mass vehicle production. The new partnership will offer car manufacturers with custom-engineered ...
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India’s National Council for Electric Mobility (NCEM) has approved a $4.1bn National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP) 2020 to support the production of electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid vehicles up to 2020. Through the plan, ...
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Teijin Limited announced that it has been selected for inclusion in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index(CDLI)2012 in recognition of its approach to and quality of reporting climate-change data.The CDLI works with 655 institutional ...
A new research at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in US has found that biodegradable plastics used to make packaging can release large amounts of methane gas when they decay fast in landfills. NCSU doctoral student James Levis, ...
The UK Department of Trasnport(DfT)has awarded£5m funding to the Transport for London(TfL)to add an additional 70 hybrid buses to its fleet. Currently TfL operates about 260 hybrid buses in London,and by the end of March next ...
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European AIP Competence Platform, involved in research of new packaging materials and techniques, has developed an online database of current active and intelligent packaging materials. The AIP Competence Platform enables SMEs to ...
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Mitsubishi Electric has developed a prototype electric vehicle (EV) motor system with an incorporated silicon carbide inverter. The company claims that the EV motor system is the smallest of its kind, measuring half the dimensions of the ...
Switzerland-based PTI Europe, a subsidiary of Plastic Technologies, has set up a Mocon-certified testing laboratory at its Yverdon facility in Switzerland for permeation of oxygen and carbon-dioxide. The laboratory would deal with rigid, ...
Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines plans to use biomass fuel in its operations to reduce the bottling plants’ carbon emissions and other environment hazards. The company is widening its sources for renewable energy at all its facilities ...
The index is compiled by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an independent, not-for-profit organisation which holds the largest collection globally of self-reported climate change data, and which is working to drive greenhouse gas ...
UK - A new hydrogen fuel-cell powered lighting package from industrial gases and engineering firm BOC provides a solution that is long on staying power and short on emissions, the company says. Aimed at a range of applications, from ...
China is considering to invest CNY4.8bn ($763.72m) on building electric-vehicle charging stations by 2015. In line with country's 12th five-year plan on energy conservation and emission reduction, the China Southern Power Grid Company ...
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Japanese carmaker Mazda Motor will begin leasing its Demio electric vehicle (EV) during October 2012 in Japan. The carmaker is planning to lease nearly 100 units, mostly to local governments and corporate customers in Western ...
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Netherlands-based companies Vitens and WE Consult have developed a new sustainable technology designed to clean membranes from biofouling. Membrane filtration is used by the drinking water and food industry throughout the world. Vitens is ...
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With a highly intricate and uniform network of pores, molecular sieves offer ultimate moisture absorption solutions. This makes this especially preferable in the industrial sector where there is a constant need to adsorb gases and liquids. ...
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