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Fortum Battery Recycling exploring new hub devel­opment in Germany

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In March, Fortum Battery Recycling started its first commercial operations in Germany, Kirchardt, as the first mechanical processing plant was opened. In April, the company started operating a hydrometallurgical facility in Harjavalta, Finland that is today Europe’s largest closed-loop recycling facility.

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GoodFuels Marine and Boskalis successfully test UPM’s sustainable wood-based biofuel for marine fleet

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Boskalis, a leading global dredging and marine expert, and GoodFuels Marine, a leading provider of sustainable marine biofuels to the global commercial shipping fleet, have successfully performed live tests on a sustainable wood-based drop-in biofuel called UPM BioVerno. Earlier post.)

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Study shows renewable diesel from crude tall oil is a high quality drop-in fuel for off-road engines

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A team from the University of Vaasa (Finland) and UPM-Kymmene Corporation has examined how the blends of fossil and renewable diesel produced from crude tall oil (CTO) affect the performance and exhaust emissions of the modern common-rail off-road diesel engine. As the baseline fossil fuel, regular low-sulfur Finnish DF was used.

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DOE releases three reports showing strong growth in US fuel cell and hydrogen market

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The number of fuel cell units manufactured in Asia continued to grow steadily, rising from about 13,500 units in 2011 to roughly 22,000 units in 2012. The number of fuel cells manufactured in North America also grew in 2012, rising to about 6,000 units in 2012. 2012 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report. Light duty vehicles.

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Frost Sullivan Projects That About 80% of European Vehicle Sales Will Be in the 150 g/km CO2 Band by 2015; EVs as a Strategy of Premium Automakers

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The countries covered in this research service are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. g/km—in model year 2016. Eco-innovations will count for up to 7 grams of manufacturers’ fleet targets. Earlier post.)

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NSF leads $400M federal effort to boost advanced wireless research

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Reflecting the importance of the research platforms to the US wireless industry, more than 20 companies and private-sector associations, including equipment vendors, device manufacturers and wireless carriers, have cumulatively pledged more than $35 million in cash and in-kind donations to enable the construction of these research platforms.

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6G Is Years Away, but the Power Struggles Have Already Begun

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manufacturers of cellular infrastructure equipment, the United States may not have the superpowers it thinks it does in shaping the future course of wireless communications. As one example, equipment manufacturers (such as China's Huawei and. And yet the economic and political forces that will define 6G are already in play.

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