Innovation

DHL and Total have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement to strengthen their partnership and contribute to the implementation of their global business ambitions.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced that 38 new projects in 18 states are being invited to apply for Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loans.

Versalis has launched a new line of products made of recycled plastic, called Versalis Revive®. The first range of these products, which have been developed at Versalis’ research laboratories and are based on different polymers, including polysterene and polyethylene, will be presented at the K fair in Düsseldorf.

BehrTech has introduced a wireless smart sensor for the industrial internet of things (IIoT). The sensor includes an integrated GPS unit and support for mobile data communication up to 120 km/hr, whether attached to a moving object or transmitting data to a moving base station.The Mythings smart sensor is capable of measuring acceleration, temperature, humidity, vibration, pressure and shock.

The Idaho National Laboratory in collaboration with three commercial electric utilities have been selected to participate in an experimental project to help improve the long-term economic competitiveness of the nuclear power industry.The project aims to enable the production of commodities such as hydrogen in addition to electricity from commercial nuclear power plants.

Digital manufacturer Protolabs now offers Carbon Digital Light Synthesis™ (Carbon DLS) as part of its portfolio of production-grade additive manufacturing technologies.

China has announced a new wave of measures aimed at preventing air pollution and targeting emission producers in the northern city of Tangshan.

A construction permit for a USD $1.2 billion coal-to-liquids facility that would turn coal and natural gas into ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel, aviation fuel, gasoline and other fuel products has been approved by environmental officials in West Virginia.

ExxonMobil said it has signed agreements with the Indian Institute of Technology locations in Madras and Bombay, further expanding its extensive portfolio of research collaboration with India’s universities.The five-year agreements focus on progressing research in biofuels and bio-products, gas transport and conversion, climate and environment, and low-emissions technologies for the power and industrial sectors.

Petrochemical manufacturers create the building blocks for plastic, but with recent environmental policy at the forefront of industrial processes, companies have become increasingly more focused on reversing the process to turn used plastic products back into original monomers, advancing plastic waste recycling solutions.