Since its invention by BASF, polymeric surface sizing agents (PSA) have seen many developments to reach their current performance levels. Recently, research, development and application specialists at BASF jointly completed their work on a new product for this established technology that allows papermakers to significantly improve on sizing costs. Traditionally, PSA for the liner segment used cationic polymers. This however limited the coloration to certain product ranges.
At the end of October 2012, to mark the opening of the first global technology center for system-compatible, hybrid regenerative power plants, the Technology Center of Eastern Pomerania (Technologiezentrum Ost-Vorpommern - TZO), in the presence of Member of the Bundestag, Hans-Josef Fell, AVA-CO2 commissioned the first industrial plant for hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) worldwide to start trial operations.
Resolute Forest Products today announced plans to build an industrial wood pellet plant that will convert a currently underutilized residual material into a reliable source of renewable energy. Construction of the plant is expected to begin shortly and is scheduled for completion in 2014. The Company has signed a ten-year agreement to supply Ontario Power Generation with 45,000 metric tons of pellets annually.
Blue Sphere Corp. (the "Company" or "Blue Sphere"), a company in the Cleantech and Waste to Energy sectors as a project integrator, is pleased to announce that each of its two waste to energy projects - a 5.2 MW plant in North Carolina and a 3.2 MW plant in Rhode Island - has signed a letter of intent with an international compost manufacturing and marketing company at prices of up to $20 per ton of compost. With a combined daily output of 100 tons, that amounts to $730,000 in annual revenue or $438,000 in annual revenue from the North Carolina plant and $292,000 in annual revenue from the Rhode Island plant.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Metal Coating, Engraving & Heat Treating" report to their offering.
Driven by the demand for alternatives to fossil fuels and the challenge to mitigate carbon emissions, algae biomass industry executives around the world are striving to develop and commercialize large-scale algae production. A main hurdle for this is the dewatering step required by many processes after harvesting the biomass. One way to achieve efficient and complete harvest is to employ scalable membrane separation technologies for concentrating the algae after harvesting from the growing environment.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Aluminum in Europe" report to their offering.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Packaging Industry in Australia" report to their offering.
Hy9, the leading provider of point-of-use, high purity hydrogen generation platforms for fuel cells, today announced their collaboration and partnership to develop and market an integrated fuel processor for use in Altergy's Freedom Power™ fuel cell systems. The collaboration joins Altergy's leadership position in fuel cells with Hy9's capabilities in point of use hydrogen generation and purification products.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Iron and Steel Industry 2012-2017: Trend, Profit, and Forecast Analysis" report to their offering.
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