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  • California’s PG&E tapped 8,500 residential batteries for grid resilience

    Image courtesy 123rf Peaking at nearly 32MW from 8,500 solar-plus-storage residential systems, Sunrun and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customer batteries provided consistent clean energy to California’s power grid through the summer and fall of 2023. The virtual grid supply came courtesy of the partnership’s Energy Efficiency Summer Reliability Program, also known as Peak…


  • Bühler unifies the protein value chain with the launch of Protein Application Center

    Bühler and Endeco have unveiled a cutting-edge Protein Application Center in Uzwil, as part of the company’s expanded food innovation capabilities. The center completes the technology solutions necessary to go from pulses or grains to finished consumer products, such as dairy or meat replacements, or for intermediate ingredients, such as proteins, fibres, or starches. With…


  • Cargill achieves milestone: first global edible oils supplier to meet WHO’s best practice

    As of the start of this year, every Cargill food customer, no matter where they are in the world, can be confident that the company’s fats and oils comply with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended maximum tolerance level for industrially produced trans-fatty acids (iTFA) in fats and oils. Cargill said it achieved this milestone…


  • Innovate UK backs Campden BRI and Cellular Agriculture with funding for cultivated meat project

    Campden BRI and innovative tissue engineering and bioreactor specialist, Cellular Agriculture have won funding for a project that aims to optimise, test and validate the scalability of hollow-fibre bioreactors to produce cultivated meat products. The grant from Innovate UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is part of a £15.6 million investment…


  • Vetropack’s 0.33L returnable bottle poised to transform Austrian brewing industry

    Not only lighter, but also robust: thanks to their stability and improved resistance to scuffing, the new standard bottles can be refilled up to 20 per cent more often. © Vetropack Holding Ltd / Schafranek Foto & Film Posted: 2 February 2024 Share this page Vetropack Group together with Brau Union Österreich is presenting a…


  • Smurfit Kappa’s strategic €54m investment fuels expansion of bag-in-box Spanish plant

    Smurfit Kappa will invest €54 million to double the capacity of its Ibi Bag-in-Box plant in Alicante, Spain. Smurfit Kappa’s latest investment is set to strengthen the sustainability of both the plant’s operations and its product portfolio, with enhanced waste management systems and significant savings in energy consumption. Bag-in-Box Ibi has got a strong track…


  • Red Eléctrica and Elewit develop platform for modelling Spain’s transmission network

    Image: Elewit The Casandra platform is being developed as an advanced transmission planning tool by Spanish TSO Red Eléctrica and its technology partner Elewit. Casandra aims to be a comprehensive solution to streamline the network planning process as it becomes increasingly complex with the transition to a decarbonised and decentralised energy system. With the requirement…


  • Maria Wright Celebrates 20 years at Intelliconnect

    Customer service has always been key to the culture of Intelliconnect (Europe) Ltd the UK based specialist manufacturer of RF, waterproof and cryogenic connectors and cable harness assemblies, and a key figure in providing this is Maria Wright, the very first employee that Roy Phillips the founder of Intelliconnect hired. For the whole of her…


  • SignatureIP launches its new iNoCulator NoC configuration tool with a free trial offer

    SignatureIP, the pioneer of next generation NoC tools, has launched its new iNoCulator™ NoC configuration tool with a free trial period of two weeks for customers. The NoC (Network on Chip) is the backbone of a chip that provides the interconnect infrastructure between the key processing elements. SignatureIP’s new tool enables users to rapidly find…


  • Heraeus Electronics Thick Film Expands Its Portfolio through Acquisition of PriElex Electronic Inks from Kayaku Advanced Materials

    Heraeus Electronics, a leading provider of advanced materials solutions, is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of the PriElex electronics inks business line from Kayaku Advanced Materials Inc. The acquisition, effective January 31, 2024, strengthens Heraeus Electronics’ Thick Film business and expands its portfolio of offerings for the electronics materials industry. PriElex, renowned for its…