Leading tidal energy business, Nova Innovation, is to head Enabling Future Arrays in Tidal, a consortium of nine pioneering industrial, academic and research organisations collaborating on a major new European project.
The world’s largest manufacturer of modular carpets, Interface, has unveiled a carbon negative carpet, which is binding, reversing and absorbing CO2 within its manufacturing process.
Industry surveys have reported as much as 65% of manufacturers globally will be using a service-based selling model as opposed to product-based by 2020.
Smart technologies are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our day to day lives. From smartphones to smart homes, the dramatic increase in power and sophistication of technology is opening up new technological frontiers and promising endless possibilities for the development of many different industries, particularly manufacturing.
Unilever and the Fraunhofer Institute has developed a potentially ground-breaking new technology to combat the hundreds of billions of single-use plastic sachets thrown away globally every year.
The UK has an opportunity to redefine how we view waste and resources and move towards treating waste as an economic resource. Paul Taylor, chief executive of UK waste and resource management company, FCC Environment, reports.
