STMicroelectronics of Geneva, Switzerland has unveilled a family of high-voltage silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFET products, enabling power supply designers to drive up energy efficiency in applications such as solar inverters and electric ...
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People have long known there is energy in wastewater; extracting it economically is the problem. Startup Cambrian Innovation claims its technology can do it and a brewery and a winery are now using it to clean their wastewater while ...
Tags: energy in wastewater, reduced energy costs, wastewater reuse
The traditionally low-cost pasture-based dairying regions, such as Australia, have lost their cost advantage as input prices have risen, and now compete on the global market with a similar cost of production to producers with more intensive ...
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Orion Engineered Carbons GmbH will cease production at its Sines, Portugal facility by the end of 2013 affecting immediately approximately 36 of the 40 positions at the plant. The shutdown will take place while investments are being made ...
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 ...
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Europe's energy intensive industries are probably divided on the merits of power savings targets for 2030, but if the right mix of unambiguous and universal targets and measures can be agreed – and explained – opposition could ...
Tags: Construction, Glass, Glass Industry
With the goal of reducing cost, opening resource, saving consumption, protecting energy supply, reducing outsourcing, breaking energy and environmental protection constraints and reducing fresh water consumption", recently Baosteel Co.,Ltd. ...
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The Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia has urged Japan’s Marubeni Corporation to invest in the country’s textile sector. Speaking to reporters after his meeting with Marubeni president and CEO Teruo Asada, Industry Minister ...
Search engine giant Google has entered into an agreement with the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) to use 48MW of wind energy from the Canadian Hills Wind Project to power its Oklahoma datacentre. The collaboration is part of Google's ...
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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — August 14, 2012 — (NYSE:GE) — Food City (Abingdon, Va.) operates 104 supermarket outlets in the tri-state regions of Southeast Kentucky, Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. Fed up with the ...
Tags: Ohio, high energy costs, LED lighting
Reuters reported that Chilean miner Antofagasta Minerals has submitted its USD 600 million Oxidos Encuentro copper project for environmental approval in Chile. The London listed miner hopes the project, in the Centinela Mining District in ...
Tags: environmental approval, miner, copper cathodes, ore grades
Urbis Sapphire lanterns are to be used in modernisation project Following a decision by cabinet members yesterday, streetlights in Powys are to be switched back on. Powys county council has been allocated £1.4 million to modernise ...
The California Energy Commission's goal is to build "net-zero" homes in California by 2020. The test model is the ABC Green Home, located in an empty lot at Irvine, California's Great Park. The completion date for this Craftsman-style, ...
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As grocery and food retailers continue to look for ways to increase profit margins by curbing costs, many are finding a solution in their refrigerated display cases. Replacing traditional fluorescent tubes in refrigerated display cases with ...
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Certain industries benefit more then others from specific industrial products or machines. Heat exchangers are pretty popular across the board, but are absolute essentials for the paper industry. Without heat exchangers, paper mills would ...
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