Solar power developer Solida is pioneering the application of the agrivoltaic concept in Croatia. It launched the construction of a facility with 15 MW peak capacity at a location where it would also farm sheep. The company intends to build only agrisolar plants.
Technology provider Bucher Emhart Glass broke ground on a RM108 million (US$24 million) manufacturing facility in Malaysia. This event signifies the start of the construction phase for the new manufacturing facility, which is scheduled to be completed in 2024.
Swedish mining company LKAB raised by a quarter its estimate of the size of rare earth oxide deposits at the Per Geijer deposit in the Kiruna area of northern Sweden. Resources are now estimated at 1.3 million tonnes, up from an earlier estimate of more than 1 million.
Pennsylvania will truck in 2,000 tons of lightweight glass nuggets to help quickly rebuild a collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia, and crews will work 24 hours a day until they can reopen the critical commercial artery.
Blue Whale Materials, a lithium-ion battery recycling company, acquired Eclipse Energy, a battery testing and evaluation lab. To facilitate this expansion, Blue Whale Materials formed a new subsidiary, BW Energy and Innovation, dedicated to battery testing and evaluation.
The Materials Processing Institute announced a progressive research partnership with Trent Refractories and Kanthal to examine the potential impact on industrial processes of using hydrogen as an alternative fuel source.
Lithoz GmbH delivered a CeraFab S65 System 3D printer to WZR ceramic solutions GmbH so they can use it to create cerium oxide components with highly complex lattice structures for the “Redox3D” project, which aims to produce green hydrogen in solar tower power plants through thermochemical processes.
On June 13, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Argentina president Alberto Fernández signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a partnership between the EU and Argentina on sustainable raw materials value chains.
Rigaku plans to host the inaugural and free Rigaku Semiconductor Forum on June 20–21, 2023. It will be held both online via Zoom and at the Mercure Neu-Isenburg Hotel near Frankfurt, Germany.
ACerS U.K. Chapter and the Transforming Foundation Industries Network Plus are co-organizing a one-day meeting in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield on “Inorganic Materials for Resource and Energy Efficiency.” The event will take place Wed, Aug. 30 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. BST.
A total of 650 people attended the Glassman USA event in Cleveland, Ohio, which included a combined trade show and conference. Conference papers will be available via the Glassman USA website shortly and will be announced via the Glass International website.
South Korean prosecutors arrested and indicted a former executive of Samsung Electronics suspected of stealing trade secrets while attempting to establish a copycat computer chip plant in China. The technology allegedly stolen by the man’s China-based company would have been worth at least 300 billion won (US$233 million) for Samsung.
The share of renewable energy in global power generation hit 30% last year after record growth in solar, but little progress has been made when it comes to decarbonizing the heat and fuel sectors, according to a report published by the Paris-based REN21 think tank.
The United States and the United Kingdom announced the release of a new diplomatic framework that has a strong focus on technology. It calls for the countries to cooperate on R&D in “critical and emerging technologies” and to facilitate reciprocal flows of talent and mobilize private capital for technology development.
NASA and Boeing announced that the Air Force had designated a new transonic, truss-winged aircraft as the X-66A. The design is a product of the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, a NASA–Boeing partnership to produce a single-aisle plane that promises to slash fuel consumption for commercial aircraft.
Cheesecake Energy is building shipping-container systems that store thermal energy using tanks of compressed air and silos of hot sand. Next year, the town of Colchester, England, will transplant four of these containers onto the site of a new mixed-use development.
First Solar, Inc. announced a limited production run of the world’s first bifacial solar panel using an advanced thin film semiconductor. The module, which is undergoing field and laboratory testing, builds on the track record of First Solar’s successful Series 6 monofacial module platform.
