Wiegand-Glas recently put into operation a batch house delivered from Zippe at its Steinbach am Wald plant in Bavaria, Germany, while a recyclable material silo plant was also fully commissioned.
A year ago, the first PWR BLOK from the Swedish clean technology company Swedish Stirling was commissioned at ferrochrome producer Afarak’s Mogale site in South Africa. The company is now ready to launch on a larger commercial scale in the country.
A group of Danish companies—including Copenhagen Airports, A.P. Moller – Maersk, DSV Panalpina, DFDS, SAS, and Ørsted—are joining forces to build one of the world’s largest facilities producing synthetic fuels. Fully scaled up, the finished facility in 2030 would have capacity to deliver 250,000 tonnes of synthetic fuel each year.
Yageo Corp., Taiwan’s largest passive electronics component maker, secured a syndicated loan of a record NT$48.5 billion (US$1.62 billion) to fund its acquisition of American rival Kemet Corp. The acquisition deal is expected to be completed in the third quarter.
Poonawalla Group-backed Indian clean-tech startup h2e Power, which makes solid oxide fuel cells, acquired Swiss fuel cell specialist Hexis AG. Plans are to build large manufacturing capacity in Pune, India, for the Indian and global markets.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators rolled out the Endless Frontier Act, a bill proposing to pump over $100 billion into new technology development endeavors at the National Science Foundation and Commerce Department. The bill would rename NSF as the National Science and Technology Foundation to reflect the addition of a technology directorate.
Trusscore, a materials science company that combines sustainable materials and nanotechnology, raised a $5.33 million CAD seed round of financing. The company is focused on the research and development of its building material and plans to use the seed funding to assist with that as well as help scale production.
The Cessna 208B Grand Caravan completed its maiden flight, the latest example of a zero-emission form of transport taking to the skies. The plane’s 750-horsepower all-electric motor was developed by magniX, an electric motor manufacturer.
The ROSS Double Planetary Mixer is available in a reverse-lift design which raises the vessel to the mixing position, rather than lowering the agitator assembly. Two interchangeable mixing vessels are supplied with each machine to form a semi-continuous mixing operation.
Tethon 3D is introducing the new Tethonite Mullite ceramic powder for use in binder jetting additive manufacturing along with the upcoming release of a beta version of UV curable mullite ceramic resin for SLA and DLP 3D printing.
Kordsa, a global player of tire and construction reinforcement and composites technologies, announced that its new carbon-fiber reinforced honeycomb composite sandwich panel is a promising material for use in commercial airplane cabin interiors.
Forglass, the Polish batch plant and furnace technology supplier, developed an “intelligent” scraping conveyor, named SmartScraper. Equipped with Overload Protection System, the design uses electronic sensors to continually monitor the working conditions of the conveyor, diagnose problems, and react instantly to changes in operation.
Oxford Instruments Asylum Research published a new application note about the scanning capacitance microscopy technique and applications of SCM. The application note is ideal for both those who are unfamiliar with SCM technology as well as those who currently use SCM but are not aware of recent advances to the technique.
