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Record Number of Attendees at Bioplastics Conference

The industry conference on bioplastics took place for the fourth time in Berlin on the 10th and 11th of November. Despite the difficult financial situation the event set a new visitor record. 380 visitors and 27 exhibitors attended the conference hosted by the European Bioplastics Association. Experts still expect continued growth in the field of compostable and biobased materials.

13 Nov 2009

Bayer Develops Innovative Measurement Program to Monitor Energy Efficiency

In conjunction with Bayer Technology Services and Bayer Business Services, Bayer MaterialScience has developed an innovative measurement and management system as part of a global energy efficiency program. This program can deliver energy savings of up to ten percent at production plants and the company is seeking to establish this system at 60 of its most energy-intensive production plants around the world by 2012.

13 Nov 2009

Bayer MaterialScience to Reduce Emissiosn through Energy Efficient Building Concept

Bayer MaterialScience aims to assist in the reduction of emissions through its energy-efficient building concept - a completely new global business model for the construction industry. Bayer is a member of UNEP's Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative (SBCI).

13 Nov 2009

BASF Introduces New Bioplastic for Packaging Applications

BASF is now offering a new biodegradable plastic. It goes by the name Ecovio FS and it has joined the existing Ecovio product line

12 Nov 2009

OSRAM Introduces New LED Lights for Small Devices

The diversified technology company 3M is including OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ LEDs in its new micro projectors, which can be connected to mobile phones and cameras

12 Nov 2009

Scientists Look to Tap Into Previously Unused Natural Gas Resources

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces might be helping to make it worthwhile to tap into previously unused natural gas resources

11 Nov 2009

Scientist Look to Stop Nanoparticles Getting Into The Environment Via Sewage Treatment Plants

In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting development of technology for changing the behavior of nanoparticles in municipal sewage treatment plants - their main gateway into the environment

11 Nov 2009

Scientists Work Out Way to Use Nanotechnology to "Grow" Solar Cells

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National
Laboratory have refined a technique to manufacture solar cells by creating tubes
of semiconducting material and then "growing" polymers directly inside
them. The method has the potential to be significantly cheaper than the process
used to make today's commercial solar cells

10 Nov 2009

Safer Lithium-Ion Batteries Developed

ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech research and development institutions, introduces STOBA (self-terminated oligomers with hyper-branched architecture), the first material technology to enhance the safety of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries

10 Nov 2009

Alcoa Offers Building Sustainability

Alcoa aluminum has always offered unique advantages for designing the shape, appearance and finish of modern buildings. Today it offers an even more important advantage: sustainability

10 Nov 2009

BOC Gets Long Term Deals With Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturers in India

Reinforcing its position as India’s leading gas technology supplier to the photovoltaic (PV) industry, BOC India (BOCI), a member of The Linde Group, has won four new long-term gas supply deals with large PV manufacturers, Moser Baer, Euro Multivision, Solar Semiconductor and Indo Solar (formally Phoenix Solar)

10 Nov 2009

Siemens Wins Big Wind Turbine Order

Siemens Energy has been awarded an order for 70 wind turbines for the Los Vergeles wind farm in Tamaulipas, Mexico

10 Nov 2009

Environmentally Friendly Snow 'Thrower' and Alternative to Polluting Snow 'Blowers'

Structured Solutions II LLC announced the launch of their newly-designed wheeled snow shovel this fall. The Sno Wovel™ is the only non-combustion alternative snow removal device performing equal to or better than a snow blower

10 Nov 2009

Super Efficient Solar Cells From Sydney University

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10 Nov 2009

Power Supplies For Printed Electronics and Electronic Packaging to be Conference Focus

Energy storage for small devices forms by far the largest mobile energy storage market today, being much larger and faster growing than the market for heavy energy storage such as automotive and enjoying greater innovation for the future, including transparent and printed batteries

10 Nov 2009