The EU glass industries are facing high energy costs, the world’s strictest environmental and climate regulations and have been severely impacted by the economic crisis. While competitiveness is high on the agenda, the carbon leakage ...
Tags: Glass Industries, Carbon Leakage
Since 1st November Friedrich Barth new Managing Director of German Water Partnership (GWP) in the GWP office in Berlin. For more than twenty years Friedrich Barth has been working for public and private organisations in the policy fields ...
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Germany-based Sympatex Technologies GmbH — a membrane, laminate and functional textile developer, producer and distributor — reports two partner companies have introduced products featuring Sympatex technology. Baltes ...
Tags: Baltes, Buratti, Sympatex, technical, fabrics, workwear
INDA's annual FILTRATION International Conference & Exposition, held November 12-14, 2013, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, drew a record number of attendees who braved the frigid temperatures hitting the Midwest and East Coast to conduct ...
The Nissan Altima is not a replacement for the Maxima, despite the former arriving as the latter departs. That’s the word from Nissan Australia, which reasons that the Altima is a medium car while the Maxima is a large car, despite ...
The frequent occurrence of extreme weather conditions in China has caused an average of more than 2,000 deaths and up to 200 billion yuan ($32.8 billion) of direct economic loss every year since the 1990s, according to Beijing's latest ...
On 28 October 2013, the Hohenstein Institute had two reasons to celebrate: In addition to the official opening of the new “Otto Mecheels building” with around 2,580 m² floor area, Willy Bogner, the owner of the sports ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Willy Bogner
In what he describes as "the mother of all conspiracy theories," an Arizona-based talk radio host says the powers that be are intentionally destroying large bodies of water in a bid to create a multi-trillion-dollar biofuel industry. ...
Tags: algae, conspiracy, ocean, oil
Wind turbines need to have a service life of 20 years in order to be economically efficient. BASF has now developed a robust paint that protects rotor blades even better, especially on the edges, according to the company. RELEST Wind LEP ...
Tags: BASF Supplies, Edge Protection, Rotor Blades
China is sending "encouraging" messages on climate change issues, and the country has "a huge amount" to teach the world in this area, said Andrew Steer, president and chief executive officer of the World Resources Institute. Commenting ...
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The all-new Mini Cooper hatch has made simultaneous world debuts at the Los Angeles and Tokyo motor shows, combining evolutionary styling with brand-new engines, transmissions, suspension technology, interior layout and driver assist ...
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Malaysia-based international offshore oilfield services provider, Bumi Armada Berhad announced today that EnQuest Heather Limited together with EnQuest ENS Limited, First Oil and Gas Limited, Nautical Petroleum Limited and Nautical ...
The 2nd Euratex Convention – the European exchange & meeting platform for the textile industry – took place on 4 and 5 November 2013 at Deutsche Bank (DB) in Berlin. Gesamtverband textil+mode hosted the event and geared the ...
Tags: T&C Industry, Textile
The 2014 Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan has been captured undisguised, uncovering every angle of its brand-new exterior. Captured by CarAdvice’s spy photographers while on an official photo shoot in California, the images give us an ...
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The Obama administration said it isn’t “walking away” from a goal of 1 million EVs on the country’s roads by 2015. Heather Zichal, deputy assistant for energy and climate change at the White House, praised the soon ...
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