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Benninghoven Recycling Priority Asphalt Plant champions Green Technology
Benninghoven Recycling Priority Asphalt Plant champions Green Technology A double première in the Swiss Confederation: September 2022 saw the start of production at Switzerland’s first Benninghoven Re...
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Symposium to explore Concrete Roads for a Green World
Symposium to explore Concrete Roads for a Green World Research findings from all around the world show that concrete roads have an important role to play in tackling the challenges of mobility and roa...
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Retrofitting Structures with Energy Efficient Building Skins
Retrofitting Structures with Energy Efficient Building Skins Older buildings tend to leak heat through their walls, requiring much more energy to maintain a comfortable temperature in summer or winter...
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Valmont wins four Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards
Valmont wins four Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards Valmont® Industries, Inc., a global leader that provides vital infrastructure and advances agricultural productivity while driving innovation through techn...
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Historic Bridge in Québec rehabilitated with Acrow Modular Steel Truss System
Historic Bridge in Québec rehabilitated with Acrow Modular Steel Truss System Acrow, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, noted today a steel truss system it designed was use...
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Researchers explore Concrete from Ancient Rome to transform modern industry
Researchers explore Concrete from Ancient Rome to transform modern industry A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology is looking to solve the problems of tomorrow by using chemistr...
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Transforming Highways with Superconductors for High-Speed Travel
Transforming Highways with Superconductors for High-Speed Travel Superconductors can conduct electricity without any resistance or power loss, and they can effortlessly cause magnets to levitate above...
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Aerobrick Translucent Bricks with Thermal Insulation properties
Aerobrick Translucent Bricks with Thermal Insulation properties Glazed construction elements are a popular method in architecture for letting light into a building. This allows for better use of envir...
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Metal 3D printing reaches new heights with less waste
Metal 3D printing reaches new heights with less waste In traditional manufacturing, components are created out of larger blocks of source material (such as steel) and the unused excess materials or th...
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Mobil 1 introduces Hybrid Full Synthetic 0W-20 Motor Oil
Mobil 1 introduces Hybrid Full Synthetic 0W-20 Motor Oil With projections for hybrid vehicle sales and adoption continuing to trend upward, Mobil 1™ has announced its newest full-synthetic, low...
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Metal-organic Framework Materials could store Gases
Metal-organic Framework Materials could store Gases Materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have a rigid, cage-like structure that lends itself to a variety of applications, from gas storag...
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Spray Paint has evolved with the Rust-Oleum Custom Spray 5-in-1
Spray Paint has evolved with the Rust-Oleum Custom Spray 5-in-1 Rust-Oleum, an innovation leader for more than a century, today announced spray paint’s newest evolution, Custom Spray 5-in-1.This first...
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Using Welding Techniques to improve 3D Metal Printing
Using Welding Techniques to improve 3D Metal Printing A research team led by Dr. Sang-woo Song, Dr. Chan-kyu Kim, Dr. Kang-myung Seo at the Department of Joining Technology of the Korea Institute of M...
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OCL Regeneration’s New Recycling Centre to Revolutionise Road Construction
OCL Regeneration’s New Recycling Centre to Revolutionise Road Construction OCL Regeneration has announced the launch of a new recycling centre in Medway’s Hoo peninsula, dedicated to asphalt, co...
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Reimagining the Ancient Design of Concrete for the 21st Century
Reimagining the Ancient Design of Concrete for the 21st Century Concrete is the most used material in the construction industry and dates to the Roman Empire. Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh...
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Oxford Plastics LowPro 23/05 Road Plate approved by New York authorities
Oxford Plastics LowPro 23/05 Road Plate approved by New York authorities The Oxford LowPro 23/05 Road Plate which has been designed and developed by the UK company, to comply with HS20-44 standards an...
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Smart Portable Sensing System monitors Precast Structures during delivery
Smart Portable Sensing System monitors Precast Structures during delivery The multimetric portable system uses an IoT sensor to simultaneously measure strain and acceleration of the structures real-ti...
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Global Concrete Market set for a green future worth $300bn
Global Concrete Market set for a green future worth $300bn If concrete was a country, it would have been the world’s third-largest carbon dioxide emitter behind only China and the US. This is no surpr...
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Exploring Asbestos Management in the UK
Exploring Asbestos Management in the UK The Control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) came into force in 2012, updating and replacing the previous 2006 law. They contain requirements for work with asbesto...
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Kapsch TrafficCom Green Gantry brings Sustainable Infrastructure to our Roads
Kapsch TrafficCom Green Gantry brings Sustainable Infrastructure to our Roads Gray steel or aluminium gantries for stationary toll systems on highways have been the industry standard for decades. Howe...
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Bio Bitumen promises Sustainable Asphalt Manufacturing
Bio Bitumen promises Sustainable Asphalt Manufacturing QM Recycled Energy has been appointed the exclusive UK distributor of German company B2 Square’s Bio Bitumen. This is a completely new meth...
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Scaling Solar Energy to decarbonize Cement production
Scaling Solar Energy to decarbonize Cement production CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. has announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy awarded US$3.2 million to Solar MEAD, a joint project headed by CEMEX...
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The History of Bitumen
The History of Bitumen Bitumen is a substance produced through the distillation of crude oil, a sticky, black, highly viscous liquid, or semi-solid form, of petroleum. It is renowned for its waterproo...
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Prometheus Materials achieves ASTM certification for Bio-Cement
Prometheus Materials achieves ASTM certification for Bio-Cement Prometheus Materials, a leader in sustainable building materials, has achieved foundational certifications ASTM C129 for nonloadbearing...
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Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Slope of Crude after new job data
Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Slope of Crude after new job data Bitumen Report – February 8, 2023 Pressure on crude knocked the price down by 7 percent. Singapore fuel was volatile as oil but bitumen s...
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Chinese research team develops Polymers with a Metal Backbone
Chinese research team develops Polymers with a Metal Backbone Until now, you can have a metal or a plastic, but not both in one. However, things don’t have to stay that way. In the journal Angewandte...
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Historic Zagreb Cathedral preserved with MCI CorrVerter Technology
Historic Zagreb Cathedral preserved with MCI CorrVerter Technology The famous Zagreb Cathedral is the tallest and one of the most beautiful buildings in Croatia that attracts thousands of tourists wor...
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MIT researches driving objects through granular materials
MIT researches driving objects through granular materials Pushing a shovel through snow, planting an umbrella on the beach, wading through a ball pit, and driving over gravel all have one thing in com...
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CEMEX puts the Future into Action with RUBBERMIX crumb rubber asphalt
CEMEX puts the Future into Action with RUBBERMIX crumb rubber asphalt CEMEX is proud to present RUBBERMIX ASPHALT, a crumb rubber solution which offers an alternative recovery option for used tyres by...
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Braskem explores production of Bio-Based Polypropylene
Braskem explores production of Bio-Based Polypropylene Braskem the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a global market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial...
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Asahi Kasei explores recycling of high-quality Carbon Fibre
Asahi Kasei explores recycling of high-quality Carbon Fibre Asahi Kasei, a diversified Japanese multinational company, has developed a new technology for recycling carbon fibre plastic compounds toget...
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Circular use of Aggregates could reduce emissions and save Europe €6B per year
Circular use of Aggregates could reduce emissions and save Europe €6B per year A new report by Sweco found it possible to reduce costs for raw material by approximately EUR 6 billion per year in Europ...
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Kebony calls for Sustainable Timber to be the new normal
Kebony calls for Sustainable Timber to be the new normal Norman Willemsen, Chief Executive Officer of Kebony, a global leader in the production of sustainable wood, today spoke out in support of Europ...
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Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Movements of Markets
Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Movements of Markets Bitumen Report – 9 Jan, 2023 Financial markets have started 2023 on Wednesday and crude oil initiated by falling further. Bitumen stayed in the former...
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CorroLogic is the logical Corrosion solution for the Oil and Gas Industry
CorroLogic is the logical Corrosion solution for the Oil and Gas Industry The stakes of corrosion in the oil and gas industry can be astronomical, ranging from high maintenance and repair costs, to do...
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Making new Crystalline Materials with two or more elements
Making new Crystalline Materials with two or more elements Argonne National Laboratory scientists have found a new way to make materials for batteries, magnets and microelectronics. The world’s best a...
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Producing hydrogen using a Sponge Iron
Producing hydrogen using a Sponge Iron RUDN University environmentalists have proposed a new catalyst for converting methane into hydrogen – an alternative energy carrier. The catalyst itself is...
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Lafarge Canada turns Nova Scotia Cement Plant green
Lafarge Canada turns Nova Scotia Cement Plant green Lafarge Canada has been consistently advancing in their journey to Net-Zero. The largest provider of sustainable and innovative building solutions i...
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Empa researchers find the cause of brittle concrete walls
Empa researchers find the cause of brittle concrete walls “Our houses are crumbling!” reads a banner at a demonstration in Dublin. “100% reparation,” reads T-shirts worn by par...
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Vapor Barrier System mitigates brownfield Site Contamination
Vapor Barrier System mitigates brownfield Site Contamination Land Science®, a division of REGENESIS® and the leading provider of contaminant vapor mitigation systems, has been granted a U.S. patent fo...
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Teesside University Researchers are helping to create Carbon Neutral Cement
Teesside University Researchers are helping to create Carbon Neutral Cement An environmentally sustainable building material which could significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the construction i...
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Cambridge scientists find dynamic fractals in clean magnetic crystal
Cambridge scientists find dynamic fractals in clean magnetic crystal The nature and properties of materials depend strongly on dimension. Imagine how different life in a one-dimensional or two-dimensi...
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New Weld Filling Wire invented for high-strength Steel Repair
New Weld Filling Wire invented for high-strength Steel Repair The U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense teamed up to create a series of weld filler materials that could dramatically improve high-stre...
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Cemblend and OCL Regeneration developing Clinker-Free Low-Carbon Products
Cemblend and OCL Regeneration developing Clinker-Free Low-Carbon Products Bespoke powder blending solution provider, Cemblend, today announced it has struck a collaboration agreement with OCL Regenera...
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Australian project explores Self-Healing Concrete using sloppy sludge
Australian project explores Self-Healing Concrete using sloppy sludge Water treatment sludge could be used to prevent 117,000 kilometres of sewer pipes in Australia from cracking in future, without an...
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The Toughest Material on Earth
The Toughest Material on Earth Scientists have measured the highest toughness ever recorded, of any material, while investigating a metallic alloy made of chromium, cobalt, and nickel (CrCoNi). Not on...
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Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Geopolitical Risks adds Up to Energy Crisis
Oil and Bitumen Highlights: Geopolitical Risks adds Up to Energy Crisis Bitumen Report – December 12, 2022 Petrochemicals and fuel fell further along with oil. Crude got to its lowest price in 2022. B...
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Shell and Connect Plus accelerate Decarbonisation of Road Construction
Shell and Connect Plus accelerate Decarbonisation of Road Construction Shell has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Connect Plus – a consortium that includes Edge Orbital Holdings L...
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Construction of Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3 accelerated by PERI Customised formwork
Construction of Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3 accelerated by PERI Customised formwork At the south end of Frankfurt Airport, Terminal 3, with its futuristic design, is currently one of Europe’s largest...
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New sustainable Green Gantry in Austria made from Wood
New sustainable Green Gantry in Austria made from Wood With the “Green Gantry”, Kapsch TrafficCom introduced a gantry made from local and renewable resources that paves the way for sustain...
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