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Breakthrough technology for lithium manufacture

Envirotec Magazine

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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Digitalisation is a key enabler for decarbonisation of UK manufacturing, says Make UK

Envirotec Magazine

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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Measurement of persistent organic pollutants: Recent progress profiled

Envirotec Magazine

Widely used during the post-war industrial boom of the 1940s and ‘50s, many of the synthetic chemicals introduced were used in crop production and the manufacture of a range of household goods. By Gauthier Eppe Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic chemicals that pose a significant threat to human health and the environment.

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Tetra Pak U.S. and Canada 2022 Sustainability Report: Food

3BL Media

The results of the study show cost savings, fewer deliveries of milk and increased consumption: A projected savings of six cents ($0.06) per serving, specific to supply chain costs. The pilot with Dallas ISD took place over five months and looked at the impact of switching from chilled to shelf-stable milk in nine elementary schools.

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Firms win funding for EV battery management advance

Envirotec Magazine

The technology has been refined to a level of usability, reliability, and maturity that gives battery manufacturers and integrators the confidence required to enable mass adoption, say the firms. The project aims to: • Develop a unified physics and machine-learning-based approach for battery RUL estimation with high accuracy of over 90%.

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Two million UK micro-businesses don’t believe reducing their own emissions will make a difference to climate change

Envirotec Magazine

While we create sustainable products, we do have an international supply chain which results in a greater carbon footprint than if we were entirely UK-based. Supply chain and production costs are make or break for small businesses, and the associated carbon footprint is often beyond an owners control.

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The reasons behind lithium-ion batteries’ rapid cost decline

Envirotec Magazine

That was an interesting finding, she says, because “there were so many variables that people were working on through very different kinds of efforts,” including the design of the battery cells themselves, their manufacturing systems, supply chains, and so on. The R&D contribution didn’t end when commercialization began.