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Motiv Power Systems delivers nine electric box trucks to Community Resource Project

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Motiv Power Systems announced the deployment of nine electric box trucks with Community Resource Project (CRP). The vehicles have gone through pre-delivery inspection at Motiv's newly opened Stockton service center, which will also serve as the base for any repairs or maintenance.

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Dürr building smart and resource-efficient paint shop at San Luis Potosí in Mexico for BMW Group; Industry 4.0

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Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 From the first full year of production, the plant will be the BMW Group’s most resource-efficient production location worldwide. Responsible use of water resources is a particular sustainability goal in San Luis Potosí.

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BMW Group makes sustainability and efficient resource management central to its strategic direction

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The BMW Group is making sustainability and resource efficiency central to the company’s strategic direction. The principle of continuous improvement will remain at the heart of the strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions and increase resource efficiency. Circular economy for responsible resource management. degree goal.

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Audi moving new IT-based factory automation solution into series production; Edge Cloud 4 Production

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In the future, the software-controlled, flexible, and scalable server solution will replace the decentralized control system that relies on high-maintenance industrial PCs. This approach eliminates the need for expensive, high-maintenance industrial PCs. The flexible cloud technology also scales to adapt to future tasks.

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Goodyear develops 70% sustainable-material tire; NPT on delivery robots

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Soybean oil is a bio-based resource that reduces Goodyear’s use of petroleum-based products. While nearly 100% of soy protein is used in food/animal feed applications, a significant surplus of oil is left over and available for use in industrial applications.

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Researchers split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen

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The use of vast amounts of high-purity water for hydrogen production may aggravate the shortage of freshwater resources. A flow-type natural seawater electrolyser with Lewis acid-modified electrodes (Cr 2 O 3 –CoO x ) exhibits the industrially required current density of 1.0 A cm Resources Guo, J., A cm −2 at 1.87 V V and 60 °C.

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Continental using recovered carbon black in solid tires

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Pyrum breaks down end-of-life-tires into their individual components in industrial furnaces using a special pyrolysis process. Solid tires have a high load capacity and are extremely stable, puncture-proof, maintenance-free and highly economical. Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in the specialty tire segment.

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