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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Belgium-based chemical group Solvay has opened two rare earth recycling units in France. The investment was officially approved in 2011. First launched in 2007, the project required two years of research and development followed by two years of industrialization studies and site selection.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

million in 2011 will reach $386.6 By 2014, nearly 38% of vehicles in North America will feature TPMS—a 13% increase from 2011—thus, increasing the addressable market size. In 2011, only about 2.3% new analysis from Frost & Sullivan. The consultancy estimates that the market earned revenues of more than $111.7

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Since 2011, unit sales of SUVs have more than doubled. The region’s growth was also due to strong unit sales in the markets of Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain and Belgium which all rose at double-digit rates. Mercedes-Benz has already delivered more than four million SUVs to customers worldwide.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

By the second half of 2011 Keolis’ vehicle fleet in Sweden will consist of approximately 2,000 buses, of which more than 60% will be running on renewable fuels. Deliveries of the buses will take place from April until July, and the buses will start operating between June and August.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

In response to reports from its dealers, Audi is increasing the production capacity of the new A1, which goes on sale tomorrow in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland, followed by most other European markets from mid-September, by 20%. The Audi A1 is initially launching with three engine options: the 1.2 TFSI, the 1.4

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Diesel’s biggest declines took place in Norway (-32%), the UK (-30%), Slovenia (-28%), Finland (-20%) and Belgium (-20%). The Golf was the top-selling car in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Latvia and Belgium. The fuel type accounted for just 37% of the total market—its lowest share since 2001. of total registrations.

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JULY 9, 2016

In 2011, TS LNG and Dunkerque LNG (a subsidiary of EDF) signed a turnkey contract to build the processing plant for the terminal. Its commercial operations are slated to begin in mid-September. Since then, Techint E&C and SENER have worked together to build and launch a high-efficiency, high-performance plant.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

In fiscal year 2010 (April, 2010 - March, 2011) MMC plans to sell 5,000 i-MiEVs overseas, including models built for PSA.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The agreement would see GE Capital lease EV vehicles across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. In July 2011, GE Capital announced the first European supply of EV Citroën C-Zero cars to technology giant, 3M. million globally.

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JULY 13, 2011

A team of researchers from CNRS, IPB and SAFT in France and UMICORE in Belgium report on the synthesis and performance of a new high-power cathode material for Li-ion batteries (NMCA) in a paper in the Journal of Power Sources. Biensan (2011) Li(Ni 0.40 Li 1.11 (Ni 0.40 Al 0.05 ) 0.89 Levasseur, C. Delmas, Ph. 2011.06.016. Tessier, Ph.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

A service campaign will be carried out with a total of 384 units of affected Caddy (model year between 2011-2015) and any affected customers will be informed individually in due course. In Belgium, some 320,000 affected vehicles—models with the EA 189-type diesel engine and a displacement of 1.2

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MARCH 11, 2011

Within the agreement, Total will continue its work on the optimization of the catalyst formulation at the research center in Feluy, Belgium. It is expected that the technology will be ready for industrial implementation around end of 2011. IFPEN will complete the process development at its Lyon site, France.

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JUNE 22, 2010

The two companies successfully started up the first commercial-scale HPPO production plant in 2008 at BASF’s Antwerp, Belgium, facility. SCG-Dow Group is building a second plant based on this technology which is scheduled to begin production in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, in 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Volvo’s electric car will be manufactured and delivered to leasing customers throughout Europe, including Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway with first deliveries commencing late 2011. kW charger charges the battery at household 230 V outlets in six to eight hours (at 16 Amp) or ten hours (at 10 Amp).

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JUNE 26, 2015

million) project is coordinated by steelmaker Arcelormittal Belgium NV. In 2011, LanzaTech began working with Harsco on a solution for steel mill waste gases. million (US$16.3-million) Earlier post.).

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MARCH 26, 2014

Atol is the result of a partnership between Total, IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its affiliate Axens that started in 2011.

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JULY 11, 2011

The market introduction of the Opel Ampera (the European cousin of the Chevy Volt) is due by the end of 2011. The goal is to deploy the first vehicles in Europcar rental outlets in Germany in November of this year, followed soon afterwards by Belgium and the Netherlands.

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MAY 2, 2016

reported in their paper on a policy workshop convened in 2011 on the relevance of traffic-related wear emissions for air quality policy development, with the focus on non-exhaust PM emissions. in Belgium. earlier post ). Background. The pan-European team of van der Gon et al. Hooftman et al. Hooftman et al.

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JULY 13, 2015

Construction of the flagship pilot project, which will be located at ArcelorMittal’s steel plant in Ghent, Belgium, is anticipated to commence later this year, with bioethanol production expected to start mid-2017. ArcelorMittal, which has been working on this project since 2011, has signed a long-term partnership agreement with LanzaTech.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

A team led by Yaroslav Filinchuk at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and Torben R. Jensen, Vladimir Dmitriev, Dmitry Chernyshov, and Hans Hageman (2011) Porous and Dense Magnesium Borohydride Frameworks: Synthesis, Stability, and Reversible Absorption of Guest Species. A highly porous form of Mg(BH 4 ) 2 (Mg green, BH 4.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Research and development activities will be concentrated mainly in Raleigh, Ghent, Belgium and Berlin, Germany. At the end of 2011, the first product from this partnership, drought-tolerant corn, was approved for cultivation in the United States. Regulatory approval processes which have already started will be continued.

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MARCH 10, 2011

Within Europe, 4,760 consumers in seven countries—Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey and UK—were surveyed from 28 January to 10 February 2011. The online survey captures the views of more than 10,000 consumers across the Americas, Asia and Europe.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. which found that from 2008-2011 69% of palm oil conversion occurred at the expense of peat, even despite the introduction of a moratorium in 2011.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

New car registrations in the EU, 1990-2011. Ford Europe posted net revenue in 2011 of $34 billion, representing 26% of Ford Automotive revenue. Source: ACEA. Click to enlarge. Going forward, we will as always continue to review all areas of the business and take appropriate actions to strengthen our business.

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MARCH 1, 2012

The new Le Mans prototype will make its race debut on 5 May in the 6-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium) and will compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (France) on 16-17 June. Audi Motorsport unveiled the R18 e-tron quattro: the first LMP1 car to combine a highly-efficient TDI diesel engine with a hybrid system. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

NLE will have exclusive distribution rights for the NXR, the new model premiered by Reva at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, and consequent follow-up models, such as the sports coupé NXG, which will be launched in 2011. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 16, 2011

The new center of excellence is located at Bombardier’s engineering and manufacturing site in Mannheim, Germany, which will also have an advanced testing and development facility opening in September 2011.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

ecoFLEX 3- and 5-door models had their launch in June 2011, marking the start of the new generation of Opel LPG vehicles. Italy has more than 2,800 stations; France more than 1,800; the Netherlands more than 1,400; and Belgium more than five hundred. The entry price for the Astra 5-door 1.4 Their debut comes after the Corsa LPG 1.2

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

The other countries currently covered are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Additional countries will become available before the end of 2011 and into 2012.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Mercedes-Benz is presenting a design study at “Trailer 2011” show in Belgium for an aerodynamic trailer that shows a reduction in wind resistance by up to 18%, with an accompanying decrease in fuel consumption by almost 5%. Mercedes-Benz’ new Aero Trailer design. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 20, 2010

Participating countries pledged to continue discussions through high-level roundtables organized by the IEA during the Paris Motor Show in Fall 2010 and the Shanghai Motor Show in Spring 2011. Other Initiatives.

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MARCH 9, 2010

liter Ford EcoBoost will be launched in the all-new C-MAX and Grand C-MAX models in late 2010, followed by the next-generation Focus in early 2011. liter engine with 203 PS (200 hp, 149 kW) is being launched in the latest 2010 S-MAX, Galaxy and Mondeo models, which are now in production at Ford’s Genk plant in Belgium.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Umicore is actively working with cell manufacturers to advance SSB tech, and recently opened a material prototyping center in Belgium that supports all the steps in SSB production, from formulation to testing. Based on our precious metals recycling, we pioneered industrial-scale battery recycling in 2011 in Belgium.

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In the United States in 2011, the University of Delaware and the New Jersey–based utility NRG Energy signed a. Here the king [middle] is shown with Robin Berg [left], founder of We Drive Solar, and Jerôme Pannaud [right], Renault's general manager for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images.

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Umicore is actively working with cell manufacturers to advance SSB tech, and recently opened a material prototyping center in Belgium that supports all the steps in SSB production, from formulation to testing. Based on our precious metals recycling, we pioneered industrial-scale battery recycling in 2011 in Belgium.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Researchers from Belgium and France are exploring the use of a tri-component blend of biofuels derived from low-value biomass wastes—ethyl acetate (EtAc), ethyl propionate (EtPr), and ethyl butyrate (EtBu)—in homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines. These subjects will therefore remain the focus of future studies.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

achieve a maximal average 2 ºC rise in worldwide temperatures, assuming peak years of 2011, 2015, and 2020. “My guess is that if the same European Ministers who decided, thirteen years ago, that the target ought to be 2 °C would look at the evidence in the last IPCC report, they would have to conclude that a lower target, probably 1.5 °C,

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