From the wish to enhance the societal value of the RAI, and to diminish waste, RAI Amsterdam is actively working towards connecting societal needs to excesses at the RAI. Through this, the RAI is finding many possibilities to use excess products to aid society. From connecting leftover items after events to societal initiatives through a donation program, so they can use them in creating free meals for the Legerdesheils, to connecting unused facilities, knowledge and expertise in the network to...

IEA Executive Director - Fatih Birol received a visit from Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, the Secretary General of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), at the International Energy Agency (IEA) headquarters in Paris, France. During the meeting, Dr. Birol thanked Mr. Barkindo for his efforts in recent years to foster frank and open dialog between energy producers and consumers, in the interests of greater oil market stability. OPEC Secretary General visits IEA Executive Director...

New IEA report lays out recommendations to speed up technology development and overcome high costs of drastically reducing emissions from steel and cement production. G7 economies are well placed to be first movers on driving down carbon dioxide emissions from heavy industry, setting out a path for the rest of the world for this essential part of the transition to clean energy systems, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. Achieving Net Zero Heavy Industry Sectors in...

ABB’s Process Automation business area is hosting its Capital Markets Day in Helsinki, Finland. The business area is highlighting how it is raising long-term profitability by enabling industrial customers to manage the energy transition to a more sustainable future. This will be done through integrating its leading automation systems, industry-specific anchor products, sensing equipment, and sophisticated digital solutions. One of the biggest challenges facing the industry is the shift of...

As part of its ongoing commitment to social and environmental causes, Legrand has unveiled its latest Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) roadmap covering 2022 to 2024. reduce carbon emissions The roadmap is built around four pillars. Together, they will help the organization reduce its carbon footprint, make advancements in diversity and inclusion, develop a circular economy and take the next steps as a responsible business regarding employee wellbeing and customer satisfaction. Integral t...

Siemens is to host a two-day conference and exhibition in Manchester on July 12 and 13, 2022. Transform 2022 will be held at the city’s iconic Manchester Central and will bring together hundreds of industry leaders, influencers and regulators from across the UK and Ireland to collaborate and solve some of the most pressing organizational challenges. From electrification to digitalization, from finance to e-mobility, Siemens’ Transform 2022 is all about connecting organizations acros...

Volta Trucks, the disruptive full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services provider, has confirmed the selection of Carrier Transicold as the sole supplier of refrigerated equipment for the full-electric 16-tonne Volta Zero. Carrier Transicold is a part of Carrier Global Corporation, the global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable, and intelligent building and cold chain solutions. The supply agreement follows a project in which Carrier Transicold engineers worked closely with th...

The best protection from rising electricity prices is a roof-mounted photovoltaic system that covers much of one’s own electricity demand and reduces one’s dependence on the public grid. Viessmann Electricity is an attractive new solution for home owners, who do not want to invest in their own solar power system or are looking for a worry-free package. The equipment is rented based on predictable monthly payments, eliminating the need for upfront investment. In exchange, home owner...

VTC (Virginia Transformer And Georgia Transformer Corp/ VA Transformer) is building a second 300,000 square feet transformer manufacturing facility, in Chihuahua, Mexico. New manufacturing plant in Chihuahua This new manufacturing plant, which is scheduled to open later in 2022, will incorporate best-in-class design, manufacturing technology and assembly automation, and will manufacture small-power, E2X Series oil filled and dry type transformers.

In 2021, Russia provided Germany with 55% of its natural gas imports, 35% of its oil imports and 50% of its hard coal imports. The war in Ukraine is causing a monumental shift in the country’s energy landscape, with increasing pressure to become independent of these fossil fuel imports. Gas is a key component for many industrial processes  – it keeps half of Germany’s 41.5 million households warm and accounted for 15.3% of German electricity generation last year...

RWE has successfully issued a further green bond with a total volume of €2 billion. The bond was issued in two tranches of €1 billion each with maturities in 2026 and 2030. For the first tranche, the yield-to-maturity amounts to 2.2%, based on a coupon of 2.125% p.a. and an issuance price of 99.652%. For the second tranche, the yield-to-maturity amounts to 2.9%, based on a coupon of 2.75% p.a. and an issuance price of 99.287%. The issuance met with strong interest from investors. G...

RWE is well on track to become a pioneer in the floating wind and to have one gigawatt either in operation or under construction by 2030.  To gain experience early and pave the way for commercial-scale floating wind, RWE is participating in multiple high-profile floating demonstration projects like the DemoSATH pilot project with Saitec Offshore Technologies. Pre-lay of the mooring system In early May, the anchor-handling vessel Maersk Mariner completed the installation of six mooring li...

ABB E-mobility and Shell announce plans to launch the first nationwide network of Terra 360’s, the world’s fastest all-in-one electric car charger. With over 200 Terra 360 chargers to be launched across Germany in the next 12 months, ABB E-mobility and Shell will help to ensure greater charger availability and charging speed for more than 1.7 million German electric car drivers. Growing German demand István Kapitány, Global Executive Vice President for Shell Mobility...

Würth Elektronik presents the Adrastea-I, its high performance, ultra-low power consumption, multi-band LTE-M and NB-IoT module. This cellular module, measuring only 13.4 × 14.6 × 1.85 mm, comes with integrated GNSS, integrated ARM Cortex M4 and 1MB Flash reserved for user application development. The module is based on the high-performance Sony Altair ALT1250 chipset. Certified by Deutsche Telekom, the Adrastea-I module enables a quick integration to end-products without addit...

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (Head office located at 2-6-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and President - Keiichi Kobayashi) will respond to the growing semiconductor demand, by investing about JPY 7.0 billion to increase the production capacity at the Mie Works, with planned operations starting from April 2025, in order to ensure the stable supply of tape for Semiconductor Process. Furukawa Electric manufactures and sells adhesive tape and removable tape (back-grinding tape, dicing tape, etc.), u...

Alex Guichard, the Vice President of Product Marketing at Phononic, was recently interviewed by Laser Focus World to discuss Phononic’s thermoelectric cooling technology for LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). This remote sensing method uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure ranges, acting as ‘the eyes’ for autonomous vehicles. The automotive LiDAR industry is a very crowded market with numerous startups jockeying for top position. Phononic’s LiDAR TECs T...

On the site of the former Berlin Tempelhof Airport, in the presence of German Federal Minister for Digital and Transport Dr. Volker Wissing, MAN Truck & Bus had a near-series prototype of its upcoming electric truck driven in public for the first time. A special technical feature of the trailblazing electric commercial vehicle, which will be launched in the market in 2024, is its capacity for future megawatt charging. ABB E-mobility, a global provider of charging solutions for electric vehi...

Despite success rolling out renewables and diversifying natural gas supplies, Poland will have to redouble efforts to keep pace with new EU goals amid today’s supply challenges. Poland has made serious progress in improving the security and sustainability of its energy system in recent years. However, a major acceleration in its clean energy transition is needed to tackle the emissions resulting from coal’s dominant role in the power sector, according to the latest policy review by...

Prysmian Group, the pioneer in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, announces it will work with Telstra to build a new state-of-the-art intercapital fiber network in Australia. The national fiber network project is a multi-year project which will see Telstra build a new ‘state-of-the-art inter-city dual fiber path’ that adds up to 20,000 route km of new fiber-optic terrestrial cable, boosting inter-capital capacity, as well as capacity for regional areas. Unique environme...

Siemens Mobility and Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in the field of SiC power module technology, with the aim of enabling efficient and sustainable transportation and electrical energy savings, in the transportation sector. With creation of the ‘European Green Deal’, the European Union (EU) has committed itself to being the first continent to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, meaning no net emissions of greenhouse gases...

New capacity for generating electricity from solar, wind, and other renewables increased to a record level worldwide in 2021 and will grow further as governments increasingly seek to take advantage of renewables’ energy security and climate benefits, according to the International Energy Agency. new renewable power capacity The world added a record 295 gigawatts of new renewable power capacity in 2021, overcoming supply chain challenges, construction delays, and high raw material prices,...

Building on more than two decades of experience developing new isolation manufacturing technologies and integrated circuits (ICs) for high-voltage systems, Texas Instruments (TI) introduces a new portfolio of solid-state relays, including automotive-qualified isolated drivers and switches, that deliver industry-renowned reliability to help make electric vehicles (EVs) safer. The new isolated solid-state relays also provide the smallest solution size, while reducing the bill-of-materials (BOM)...

As part of Predictive Services for Drive Systems, Siemens is expanding its offering at the Hannover Messe with an edge application. The Predictive Service Analyzer indicates defects in the drive system at an early stage before they affect the entire production. As a result, unplanned production downtime can be avoided and maintenance times can be scheduled in good time, increasing plant availability by up to 30 percent. AI-based solution Scheduling maintenance and servicing activities based o...

Danfoss Power Solutions and RISE™Robotics announce they’ve signed a collaboration agreement to jointly validate and test a key innovation that has the potential to transform the heavy machinery market through electrification. electromechanical actuator technology Danfoss Power Solutions, a global supplier of mobile and industrial hydraulics as well as electric powertrain systems, and RISE™Robotics, a leading zero-emission heavy machinery company, have formalized their collabo...

Iskra Smart Energy Meters (WM3M4C) is fully compliant with the German Eichrecht standard. After receiving The Module B certification in 2021, Iskra has completed the assessment according to Annex 4 of Module D of the Measures and Verification Ordinance dated 17.7.2019. reliable, trustworthy transaction Prestigious Eichrecht conformity means that the use of WM3M4C is assured by a reliable, trustworthy transaction, by the requirements set by German law. This standard guarantees transparen...

WEG announced a partnership project established with TB Green that allows expansion of the infrastructure required for electric delivery vehicles in Brazil. The execution of several infrastructure works all over the country begins boosting the electric delivery vehicle fleet in Brazil, mainly in areas away from large cities. Major increase of this fleet is related to the so-called last mile, which is the last logistics step, before reaching the end user in beverage, e-commerce, food and pharmac...

The second edition of GreenTech Americas was a great success with 170 exhibitors from 15 countries and 3,736 professionals from 19 countries. Practices on sustainability, success stories, and technological tools were exchanged to increase the productivity of the industry at this international protected horticulture event on 27 – 29 April 2022, at the Querétaro Congress Center, in Mexico. The next edition of GreenTech Americas will be staged from 21 – 23 March 2023. Quotes fr...

Emtelle, the pioneering Scottish technology company, has appointed highly respected and experienced business leader - Paul MacLaurin, as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Paul MacLaurin joins Hawick-headquartered Emtelle, one of the world’s renowned manufacturers of blown fiber cable and ducted network solutions, from Wavin, a global supplier of plastic pipe systems and solutions. New Chief Operating Officer (COO) appointed Paul MacLaurin spent 15 years in his former role, out of w...

What an absolute pleasure it was to participate at UK Construction Week! It was hosted as the UK's largest built event taking place for the first time in London at ExCel from 3rd - 5th May. Their CTO & Co-Founder, Carlton Cummins and sales representatives, Bruce MacPherson & Elisa Alexieva managed the event stand between the 3 days, where those visiting applauded the way their product range to date fits with the circular economy approach. Future-proofed Essential batteries They used t...

Worldwide electricity use is responsible for a quarter of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However, by taking simple steps companies and consumers can cut down the usage of electricity–especially coming from burning coal or gas–to save billions of dollars while reducing millions of tons of CO2 emissions. These changes include replacing toxic fluorescent and inefficient incandescent light bulbs with LED lamps that use significantly less electricity, using energy-efficient appliance...