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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Even though the consumer business had huge growth potential, 3M had little experience with a low-cost, low-profit-margin model. To stay in the “dog fight” meant 3M had to invest enormous amounts of money in order to remain the low-cost producer, with no assurance that profit margins ever would improve.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Raleigh, N.C. San Diego, Calif.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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The pilot will consist of a low cost, easy to operate, air blown gasifier coupled with LanzaTech’s second generation bioreactor (2GBR). Project partners include Petron Scientech, Byogy Renewables, Birla Carbon, and Clark Atlanta University.