Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A lack of common carbon emissions reporting standards across industry “risks completely undermining the UK’s drive to net zero”, a leading UK strategic manufacturing group has warned. These account for up to 90% of emissions and are fundamental to reaching net zero.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Sofidel For our Future magazine, we interviewed Regan Leggett, Foresight Lead at NielsenIQ, who shared with us the new horizons of retail, with a focus on how sustainability is increasingly shaping consumer choices. Sofidel is committed to reaching Net-Zero carbon emissions by the end of 2050. www.sofidel.com

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Scottish Water has completed work on its first large-scale battery storage project which the utility says will accelerate its drive towards net zero emissions by 2040. Four vanadium flow batteries, manufactured by Invinity Energy Systems, have recently been installed at the waste water treatment works that serve the city of Perth.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2025

Almost 52 million has been awarded to 25 businesses in the UK to support the adoption of innovative emissions-cutting projects, including carbon capture and storage, as part of the government’s Plan for Change, which aims to expedite the energy transition and progress to net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

Its first phase of projects include developments at a former industrial site in Birmingham at Tyseley Energy Park, a major public-private urban regeneration scheme – and at a number of manufacturing campuses in Yorkshire. All the developments will include heat, power and hydrogen production.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 17, 2024

But a suite of technologies collectively known as carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, are among the tools available to help meet global targets to cut CO2 emissions in half by 2030 and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. There are no projects up and running to capture CO 2 from cement manufacturing.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Corporate commitments to net-zero accelerated over the last two years, with almost one-third (30%) of Europe’s largest listed companies now having pledged to reach net-zero by 2050, according to a new study by consultancy firm Accenture. And as our study shows, the targets work.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Teva was recently named one of the most sustainable companies in the world by TIME magazine and data firm Statista. And we’ve announced targets to achieve net zero emissions across our operations and value chain by 2045 and 100% renewable electricity across all Teva sites by 2035.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their supply chains is to find ways to meet the rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs). High purity lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate is required for battery manufacture. Background.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

composite technologies specialist A2O Technology group, civil engineers Mole Group Utilities, heating elements manufacturer 2D Heat, low energy product specialist Extreme Low Energy (ELe), water treatment specialists Arvia Technology and interior solutions provider EFG UK. Software developer Connect 4.0,

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2025

The LGA warns this could force councils to cut back services, rather than targeting manufacturers that have the power to reduce plastic production, in a new report published today. billion in 2036, with a total cost over this period as high as 6.5 Local governments offer to government around green energy ambitions is enormous.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

AUMA Actuators Limited – part of the AUMA Group, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of modular electric actuators – generates electricity from 178 photovoltaic (PV) panels on the roof of its Clevedon warehouse, whilst heating and cooling is generated using electric air-source heat pumps.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Forming part of the preliminary findings, IDRIC polled general manufacturing firms, energy companies, and foundation industry sectors including cement, ceramics, chemicals, food and drink, paper and pulp, and metals among others to understand the issues impacting their decarbonisation plans.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Next generation energy innovators will receive a £24 million cash boost to develop “new technologies that will decarbonise UK industry, build home-grown energy supplies and help prepare the country for a net zero future.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Announced as “the beginning of the UK’s path to net zero” the plan sets out a number of initiatives in areas such as energy, transport, carbon capture and flood defences. The firm said these were the figures needed to deliver the 19 million heat pumps the net zero target necessitates, according to the Committee on Climate Change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 5, 2023

A new briefing from the Climate Change Committee (published on 24 May) calls for more decisive efforts to tailor the government’s skills and jobs strategy to ensure the majority of workers are not left behind by the transition to net zero. A hands-off approach to the Net Zero workforce from Government will not work.”

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. Materials suppliers are also taking a leading role. Cities have also been instrumental in pushing for new innovations and approaches.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The UK Government’s new Net Zero Strategy sets out for the first time how the Government intends to halve UK emissions in little over a decade, and to eliminate them by 2050. That’s the apparent conclusion of a new independent assessment of the Net Zero Strategy published on 26 October by the Climate Change Committee (CCC).

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

Funded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, the project is centred on Worthing Crematorium in West Sussex and is part of Adur & Worthing Council’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2030. This summer, cremator manufacturer DFW Europe will begin testing pioneering hydrogen technology at its base in the Netherlands.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. Launched in March this year, the drive to decarbonise industry forms a major part of the UK’s journey to 2050 net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

Presented as a key milestone in the UK’s race to meet its net zero targets, a new Carbon Capture and Usage (CCU) plant has been opened in Northwich, Cheshire by Tata Chemicals Europe. Liquid CO2 storage at the new CCU facility. The process is patented in the UK with further patents pending in key territories around the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

While naturally occurring lignin from sawdust is not immediately transferrable to these types of products, the researchers used a series of chemical reactions to create compounds that better matched the synthetic counterparts and could be used in manufacturing.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

The net zero commitment was expected as it had already been endorsed by the EU Parliament in November. Under the deal, it seems, regulators will have the power to set more exacting standards for manufacturers, pursuant to the creation of a circular economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

Commenting on the launch, Ben Miller, Senior Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables, said: “The launch of the O2 turbine today in Dundee deserves global attention this Earth Day, as coastal nations seek out the marine technologies that can deliver our net-zero future.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Scottish start-up Mako Aerospace plans to manufacture the world’s first all-electric jet engine, which they say could double the range of electric aircraft compared to current hybrid models. The Scottish Government has supported the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland to develop innovative projects like this.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

To develop the concept, the Veolia team used a pilot project to manufacture a fuel and test it to prove that it was better than its equivalent. This milestone marks a significant way forward, dramatically cutting gas use and advancing towards net zero targets.” ” For more information visit www.veolia.co.uk.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

The research – ‘ Decarbonisation through Digitalisation’ – seems to show that manufacturing businesses are investing in digital technologies more than ever before and reaping multiple benefits, including productivity increases, product improvements, reduction in waste and labour efficiencies.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Nova has a strong track record and has delivered positive impacts for the local community including the use of highly skilled local companies and local manufacturing and fabrication. Companies in Shetland currently manufacture blades, steel structures and provide vessels and services for Nova.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

A central plank was the policy paper “Powering Up Britain” , which presented plans for tackling energy security and net zero. A wind turbine blade manufactured in MHI Vestas Isle of Wight factory arrives in Portsmouth in June 2021, destined for use in the North Sea (image credit: Kevin Shipp / Shutterstock.com).

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 31, 2025

It will drive pumps and fans in industrial settings, such as food and drink processing, energy production, water purification and chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing, among others. Compact smart motors and the technology that makes them work are a huge step on the road to Net Zero, added Dr de Lillo.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

DAC works by capturing CO2 in the air and then either sequestrating it or using it to manufacture carbon neutral fuel. The report added that as part of the Government’s Net Zero 2050 roadmap, CCUS should be included alongside other air transport energy policies.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Boiler manufacturers Baxi Heating and Worcester Bosch have installed hydrogen burning boilers at ‘HyStreet’, in specially built demonstration houses at DNV GL’s specialist test site at Spadeadam in Northumberland. First houses heated by hydrogen gas are showcased, with the use of innovative prototype boilers.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

A hydrogen-ready boiler will apparently cost no more than its natural gas equivalent as a result of a new price-promise made in late July by the UK’s major boiler manufacturers. Mr Foster says British manufacturing ingenuity lies behind the price-promise. This is another example of British companies leading the way on net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Perhaps a marker of progress towards decarbonising the domestic use of gas, using hydrogen, the Heating and Hotwater Industry Council (HHIC) – a membership group of appliance manufacturers – has agreed new, clear labelling for hydrogen appliances.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

5 th July marked one year since the launch of ConcreteZero , a global, industry-led initiative to achieve net zero concrete by 2050. This transition to net zero concrete will require large-scale collaboration, which is precisely the challenge that ConcreteZero was launched to address.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2022

A new report for the Northern Ireland Geothermal Advisory Committee outlines the opportunities presented by geothermal energy for helping the country transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Krafla Power Plant in Iceland.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The circular economy for plastics report highlights the significant role that recycling plastics can play in ensuring the UK achieves net zero. The report , “Closing the Loop: Viridor’s roadmap to a truly circular plastics economy”, was launched at a stakeholder event held at the new Avonmouth plant. The following could be achieved: ?

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