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Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes

GreenBiz

Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes. Skyven Technologies, founded in 2013, is a company with a unique proposition for companies in the industrial sector — a way to save money through decarbonizing. The need for decarbonization in the industrial sector spans far beyond solar. Myisha Majumder.

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Chemours Joins University of Kansas-Led Collaborative the Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) To Advance Sustainable Cooling Technologies

3BL Media

For instance, the adoption of low global warming potential (GWP) hydrofluoroolefins (HFOs) solutions, such as Opteon products, helps to advance climate and decarbonization goals. Over the next two decades, this transition is estimated to create 150,000 new jobs, increase manufacturing by $39 billion in the U.S., Velders, G.

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Can Quebec turn its green battery dreams into a reality?

Corporate Knights

As long as we still want to decarbonize the planet, this is a very sound strategy,” he says. For Normand Mousseau, director of the Trottier Energy Institute at Polytechnique Montréal and a co-chair of the Quebec Commission on Energy Issues in 2013, the success of Quebec’s battery bet is far from clear.

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Nucor, Helion to Build Fusion Power Plant to Decarbonize Steelmaking

ESG Today

Steel manufacturer Nucor and clean energy startup Helion announced an agreement to develop a 500 MW fusion power plant at a U.S.-based based Nucor steel manufacturing facility, providing the facility with zero-carbon electricity. One of the key methods to decarbonize its facilities is to increase the use of clean electricity.

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Sustainable investing is changing global supply chains: 4 key takeaways

GreenBiz

As part of the Corporate Governance Roadmaps, first introduced in 2013, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to require its largest listed companies, and those in specific industries (food, chemicals, finance and insurance) to produce sustainability reports in line with the latest GRI Standards. Photo courtesy of José Miguel Salazar.

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Aviation is plotting a sustainable course

GreenBiz

In the climate world, aviation is referred to as a hard-to-abate sector, alongside other heavy industries — shipping, aluminum, cement and concrete, among others — that aren’t easy to decarbonize through redesign or electrification. The industry has responded or at least has been pushed to do better.

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The Journey From Recovery to Circularity for the Tire Industry

3BL Media

for example, the ELT recovery rate was 71 percent in 2021, compared to a high of 96 percent in 2013, according to data from the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA). The transportation sector, including the tire industry, has been at the forefront of the long, complex journey toward decarbonization and sustainability.

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