Process industries
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Bureau Veritas has issued the world’s first prototype certification for a floating offshore solar technology to the Dutch-Norwegian renewable energy company SolarDuck for its 0.5 MW pilot platform Merganser. The certification represents a significant step forward in the development of marine renewable energy technologies for offshore applications. The Merganser project, developed by SolarDuck and supported…
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Mar 27, 2024 © xmentoys / Adobe Stock Acteon Group, the international offshore energy infrastructure services business, has been acquired by private equity investors Buckthorn Partners and One Equity Partners (OEP). Buckthorn and OEP are making a substantial investment in the business to improve Acteon’s standing with suppliers and customers and enable it to compete…
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Mar 27, 2024 © xmentoys / Adobe Stock Acteon Group, the international offshore energy infrastructure services business, has been acquired by private equity investors Buckthorn Partners and One Equity Partners (OEP). Buckthorn and OEP are making a substantial investment in the business to improve Acteon’s standing with suppliers and customers and enable it to compete…
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CalWave, a California-based wave energy technology developer, has been selected as the technology provider for a wave energy project at Yuquot in British Columbia, with the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation (MMFN). As a ‘first-of-a-kind’ (FOAK) wave energy project for coastal community microgrids, the MMFN project may serve as a blueprint for coastal communities along the North…
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Global Energy Group (GEG) has completed the fabrication of two towheads at the Port of Nigg on behalf of Subsea7, for the Aker BP Valhall PWP – Fenris field in the southern North Sea. The two towheads come complete with equipment interface support frames and buoyancy tank interface frames. The 66 tn towheads, which are…
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Photo: YONTEX/Frank Boxler Capture (from left to right): The advisory committee at the occasion of the first session in Nuremberg: Dr. Reiner Brambach, Roland Demleitner, Beatrix Fraese, Kilian Kittl, Kai Neubauer, Martin Hammerschmid, Caroline Pötzl, Markus Tischer, Richard Clemens, Guido Klinkhammer, Bastian Heuft, Klaus Gehrig, Jan Friedrich Büchler not in the picture: Dr. Roland Folz,…
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The World Packaging Organisation has presented Vetropack’s lightweight, returnable Echovai bottles with a WorldStar Award in the “Packaging Materials & Components” category. It is, however, not just the jury that is impressed with the robust, yet light bottles: following their debut at the Mohrenbrauerei brewery, they have now become a standard solution for the Austrian…
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James May is a man of many talents – TV presenter, automotive obsessive, occasional flautist, Wiltshire Pub Landlord… so of course it would make sense for him to start a gin brand, as all good celebrities do at some point in their careers… But rather than just sticking his face on a bottle, it turned…
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Diodes Incorporated introduces three new Hall-effect switches, the AH1899A/B/S, which operate from a low supply voltage and at extremely low quiescent current to extend battery lifetime in mobile and portable devices. The AH1899A/B/S are used to detect the open/closed status of covers and cases for portable electronic devices, such as smartphones and tablets. They are…
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Published: 27 March, 2024 Simply Blue Group, a leading global offshore wind project developer, has announced it is developing onshore renewable energy parks to power facilities capable of producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The projects, in Canada, Ireland and Australia will process more than 1.5 million tonnes of sustainable biomass annually to produce over 300,000…
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