Press Releases
Prysmian secures the highest value cable project ever awarded, worth ?800 million
THEWESTERN HVDC LINK, CONNECTING THE SCOTTISH AND THE ENGLISH POWER GRIDS, SETS A RECORD IN TERMS OF VOLTAGE (600 KV) AND HAS A CURRENTLY UNMATCHED TRANSMISSION CAPACITY FOR LONG-HAUL SYSTEMS OF 2200 MW THE NEW STATE-OF-THE ART HVDC SUBMARINE CABLE LINK IS STRATEGIC FOR THE UK, ALLOWING POWER TRANSMISSION FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES IN SCOTLAND TO… Read more »
Diversification In Brkles Product Range Is Worth Its Efforts
The machine manufacturer partially succeeds in compensating the depression in photovoltaics business through the other parts of its product range. Robert Bürkle GmbH terminates business year 2011 with a turnover of 96 million Euros. Originally, the company had planned 110 million Euros. Reason for the recession is the worldwide bad demand in the solar market…. Read more »
Printed Electronics Asia event returns to Japan
IDTechEx will host the Printed Electronics Asia conference and tradeshow on 2-3 October in Tokyo, Japan. The event, part of the IDTechEx global series of events on the topic, focusses on a region that has invested more in printed electronics than any other territory. Highlights include OLED manufacture, where sales of OLED display modules exceeded… Read more »
Ron Widdows to take over from Jan B Steffens as CEO of Rickmers Holding and Rickmers-Linie
After ten very successful years with the Rickmers Group and especially, with Rickmers-Linie, Jan B Steffens will by 31 March 2012 step down from the twin positions of CEO of Rickmers Holding and of Rickmers-Linie although he will continue to serve on the Rickmers Group advisory board. Ronald D Widdows, former CEO of NOL/APL, is… Read more »
David Brown Announces Participation At Wind Energy Updates 4th Annual Wind Energy Operations And Maintenance Summit
David Brown, a leader in the global gear industry, will present a paper in the event’s ‘solutions for asset-life cost containment’ session, as well as participate in the interactive panel discussion focused on gearbox reliability improvement. The event takes place from 25-27th April 2012 at the Dallas Marriott City Center Hotel in Texas and is… Read more »
DuPont and Yingli Green Energy Enter $100 Million Strategic Agreement
Commitment to Supply Growing Solar Market Underscores Aim to Reduce Global Dependence on Fossil Fuels WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 13, 2012 – DuPont and Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited (“Yingli China”) have signed a $100 million strategic agreement for photovoltaic materials aimed at accelerating the adoption of solar energy to address one of the world’s biggest… Read more »
Ricardo signs offshore wind contract with David Brown Gear Systems
Ricardo’s progress in the thriving offshore wind industry continues with the signing of an engineering services contract with David Brown, a leading global provider of industrial gearing solutions and support services. Following David Brown’s announcement of its collaboration with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to design and manufacture an innovative 7MW gearbox for a new range… Read more »
In Spite of Opposition, 70% of Onshore Wind Farm Applications are Approved
In an address to a Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI East Anglia) conference in Ipswich on Friday the 10th of February,[1] Dr John Constable, Director of Renewable Energy Foundation (REF, a UK charity publishing data on the energy sector [2]) told attendees that analysis of the government’s own data[3] showed that contrary to widespread belief,… Read more »
Developments, innovations: new release meteodyn WT 4.3
meteodynWT, the most advanced CFD software forwind resource assessmentand production optimization, is innovating once again.Users can benefit from the new features to: Buy on line mesoscale dataand download itdirectly frommeteodynWT Compute losses and production uncertainties Improvemultiple met masts analysis thanks to 2 new methods (nearest mast and by user-defined zone) Use Additional Weibull Fitting method… Read more »
Cloudapps Digs Deep With Employees Of Worlds Most Sustainable Oil Services Company Amec
CloudApps, the enterprise application leader in sustainability, today announced its first FTSE 100-listed customer, international engineering and project management company, AMEC (LSE:AMEC). CloudApps Sustainability Suite and its advanced employee engagement solution, SuMo, will combine to drive some of the most aggressive sustainability targets on the planet. The company is aiming for a 2013 reduction of… Read more »
