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BASF and TODA to expand their Japanese JV’s capacity for high nickel cathode active materials

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Located in Sanyo-Onoda city, Yamaguchi prefecture, the Onoda site was built for cathode material production in 2003. The production facilities were expanded in 2011, 2012 and 2017. BTBM is a BASF majority-owned joint venture with TODA formed in 2015 (BASF 66%; TODA 34%). BTBM Onoda site.

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Former Royal Navy Officer Advocates for LGBTQ+ engineers

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Based in London, it organizes networking events, funds prizes and grants, and arranges visits to interesting engineering projects around the country. In 2001 he submitted his 12-month notice to leave the Navy, although he continued to serve as a part-time reservist until 2017. s railways.

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Volkswagen AG agrees to plead guilty and pay $4.3B in criminal and civil penalties; 6 execs and employees indicted

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2017, in Miami during a visit to the United States and appeared in federal court there on Monday. Richard Dorenkamp: from 2003 until December 2013, Dorenkamp worked for VW as the head of VW’s Engine Development After-Treatment Department in Wolfsburg, Germany. This case has been assigned to US District Judge Sean F.

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The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now

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KEVIN PANG 214 West Erie Street, Chicago; 312-800-8935; asadorbastian.com West Loop and River North Mediterranean When Avec opened in 2003 among the meatpacking houses of the West Loop, it won a reputation for breaking restaurant conventions. Now nearly four years old, Ever is a highly refined but gracious experience.

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Royal Mail to buy 100 Peugeot electric vans for delivery vehicles

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The vans will go into service from December 2017 at delivery offices around the UK, supported by a comprehensive rollout of charging infrastructure. Royal Mail—since 2003 a quoted company with shares traded on the LSE—is the UK’s designated Universal Postal Service Provider.

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London to phase out diesel buses; all new single deckers for central London to be zero emission

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The Los Angeles Mayor’s Office gave a statement at the event that the city was committing to make zero-emissions buses 20% of their fleet purchases in 2017. This was the 10 th Edition of the IFCBW, continuing efforts begun in 2003 by the US Department of Transportation, US Department of Energy, and the European CUTE/HyFLEET CUTE programs.

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