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Bosch to begin developing electrolyzer components; €500M investment by end of decade

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Bosch is branching out into the development of components for electrolyzers, which use electrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. In each of these cells, electricity is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. As such, the manufacturing operation will generate economies of scale, Bosch says.

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EV startup Byton commissions D?rr for paint shop; EcoInCure technology

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Byton is among the early adopters for this technology; Skoda will be the first automotive manufacturer using EcoInCure in its new paint shop in Mlada Boleslav (Czech Republic). The new paint shop is designed to initially handle 150,000 vehicles per year—equivalent to 30 units per hour.

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Dürr sells 2,000th sealing robot

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One trend in automotive manufacturing is toward fully automatic sealing of welds; robots are increasingly performing this task in automobile production. The EcoRS 30L16S milestone machine will perform rough seam sealing at Škoda in Kvasiny, Czech Republic, and it will also be a first.

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KSPG awarded $342M in contracts for new compact EGR valve

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Ordered by European and North American automakers, the valve will be installed in engines designed to comply with the Euro 6 emission norm. The other valves ordered will be installed in 2014 and 2015 when certain new engines go into production at the European and US plants of further manufacturers.

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Lumax and Italian ally gear up for new vehicle emission dynamics – ET Auto

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According to him, rotational moulding has applications going beyond automotive to water tanks, modular plastic furniture “and whatever else on a massive scale”. Going forward, if India can make out a strong case for low- cost manufacturing, more work can be diverted here for global supplies of air filters and air intake systems.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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One of the companies featured in the story, Gravitricity, completed its 250-kilowatt gravity battery demonstrator in Edinburgh last April and is now working on a full-scale deployment at a mine in the Czech Republic. billion EV battery plant —that’s GM’s and LG Chem’s new mega-gigafactory in Lordstown, Ohio.

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Inkjets Are for More Than Just Printing

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Hewlett-Packard’s HP ThinkJet was its first desktop inkjet printer based on its thermal technology, and it was designed to connect to a personal computer for everyday printing. A new array can be designed, synthesized, and used to analyze DNA in a single day. Agilent’s inkjet-printed libraries have strands up to about 230 bases long.

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