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Trike’s sunset date has arrived... What's the alternative?
3M has created a set of resources for users of Trichloroethylene – more commonly known as Trike or TCE – to help them manage the ‘sunset date’ for this popular cleaning fluid, widely used in metal component manufacturing and preparation processes.
Embedded printing & colours bought to ultra thin AeroGlass Mirrors
AviationGlass & Technology has announced that it is enabling greater personalisation and branding opportunities in aircraft interiors by offering highly advanced printing and the option to apply different colours to its AeroGlassMirrors. The company has developed a unique, multi-colour printing technique that digitally embeds and seals both text and images inside its already highly resistant, laminated AeroGlass Mirror.
Digital Realty conserving water with Liebert DSE
Emerson Network Power has released acase studywith Digital Realty Trust, showing how the two companies are partnering to drive environmentally sustainable innovation by saving energy and eliminating water usage in Digital Realty’s data centres.Digital Realty is utilising the LiebertDSE pumped refrigerant economiser cooling system to save more than 300m gallons of water annually in its data centres, compared to using chilled water cooling sy...
UK parliament should take action to reduce food waste
As UK supermarkets pledge to cut food waste by 20% within the next decade, experts are calling on the government to take legislative action and debate the Food Waste (Reduction) Bill. Writing in The BMJ today, Professors Andy Haines and Tim Lang, and Dr Jennie Macdiarmid, say the government's failure to respond positively to the proposed bill "should not detract from the need to pursue legislation to reduce food waste as part of an integrated app...
Optimism in Scottish electrical sector as apprenticeship numbers continue to increase
SELECT remains "cautiously optimistic" as it reports the healthiest number of apprentices since the depths of the recession in 2009-10.
World's first full sized hybrid aircraft
BOC and a long-standing player in the lighter-than-air sector as partner to many of the world's largest aerospace assemblers and manufacturers, is sponsoring the First Flight of the Airlander, the world's first full sized hybrid aircraft. The vision of UK-based manufacturer Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), the Airlander is one of the largest and one of the greenest aircraft in the world.
LEAN funding extended to support SMEs
Working in partnership with MIT Skills, Fedden USP has recently been awarded an extension to the European Social Funding they receive to deliver LEAN business training to companies up to the end of August 2016. On successful completion of the training, candidates receive a nationally recognised Certificate in Business Improvement Techniques (LEAN) NVRQ Level 2 qualification.
Engineering course to strengthen graduate prospects
The University of Derby has secured funding from Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to develop a new masters degree course which will support current and future needs across the engineering sector and strengthen graduate prospects.
Turning carbon dioxide into sustainable concrete
Imagine a world with little or no concrete. Would that even be possible? After all, concrete is everywhere—on our roads, our driveways, in our homes, bridges and buildings. For the past 200 years, it's been the very foundation of much of our planet. But the production of cement, which when mixed with water forms the binding agent in concrete, is also one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, about 5% of the plane...
Nano plates can be used as catalysts for solar fuels
Solar fuels, clean fuels from sunlight, water and CO2, form an attractive way for storing solar energy in hydrogen or hydrocarbons, for example. The efficiency of this technology still needs a 'boost'. Researcher Kasper Wenderich, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology of the University of Twente (NL), investigated special nanoplaatjes with platinum particles on them, accelerating the chemical conversion.