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Toyota Assembly Plant in Texas Turns Twenty

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Since breaking ground in 2003, Toyota Texas has assembled upwards of 3 million trucks and SUVs since production started in 2006. If you need a brief history lesson, the Tundra has been produced steadily at this facility since it opened in 2006, though the Sequoia only began life there in 2022.

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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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From 2006 to 2008, Lane was Chief Procurement Officer and SVP, Supply Chain, at Motorola. Dr. Arumugam “Ram” Manthiram, Professor, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Manthiram is Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program.

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Renewable Energy Group has sold 1 billion gallons of biodiesel

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REG was formed and began operating as an independent company in 2006, as the successor to the biodiesel operations of West Central Cooperative in Ralston, IA, which first began producing biodiesel from a one million gallon per year batch plant in 1996.

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GHSA projects 17% jump in pedestrian fatalities in Q1 2021

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that 31,720 people died in crashes in the first three quarters of 2021—the highest number of fatalities during the first nine months of any year since 2006. At a state level, pedestrian fatalities increased in 39 states and D.C. during the first half of 2021.

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Air Products enters long-term agreement with Motiva for additional supply of hydrogen to Convent refinery

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The agreement includes the ability for Air Products to direct some of the hydrogen product supplied to Motiva’s Convent Refinery to other Motiva refineries along Air Products’ pipeline network in both Texas and Louisiana. Currently, Air Products operates hydrogen pipelines in both Texas and Louisiana. Earlier post.).

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Enterprise piloting program with Mansfield Oil for renewable synthetic diesel in airport shuttle buses; Dynamic Fuels product

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Enterprise Holdings, owner and operator of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands, is piloting a program with Mansfield Oil Company to use renewable synthetic diesel fuel in its airport shuttle buses at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans and Houston Hobby Airport in Texas.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering. She left the University of Texas in 2005 to join Rice University. She left the University of Texas in 2005 to join Rice University. After earning her Ph.D. Early detection, she notes, can significantly reduce mortality rates.

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