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Siemens and Envalior develop bio-based housing for Sirius 3RQ4

Siemens and Envalior develop bio-based housing for Sirius 3RQ4

Siemens Smart Infrastructure introduced Sirius 3RQ4 coupling relays with housings made from Akulon K225-KS B-MB, a PA6 grade from Envalior containing 70 percent bio-based content sourced from used cooking oil via mass balance. The series offers three variants and meets Siemens EcoTech criteria.

Oliwa project to repurpose olive waste into packaging and biogas

Oliwa project to repurpose olive waste into packaging and biogas

A 25-partner consortium led by the University of Torino has launched Oliwa to repurpose olive by-products into co-products for animal feeds, functional ingredients, packaging and biogas. Aimplas will assess extrusion processability and validate rigid packaging and lidding film prototypes based on olive waste.

Krones at BrauBeviale 2023

Krones at BrauBeviale 2023

With Brewnomic, the Freising team has set the industry standard for some time in order to make the brewing process energy self-sufficient and CO2 neutral and offers various concepts for energy recovery, residue recycling or process water saving.

 A new cash flow to local farmers

A new cash flow to local farmers

Local farmers’ ability to sell biomass to Iggesund Paperboard’s paperboard mill at Workington will return over 1.5 million pounds annually to the local agricultural industry.

PepsiCo joins NaturALL Bottle Alliance

PepsiCo joins NaturALL Bottle Alliance

Yesterday it announced that PepsiCo, Inc. has joined the Alliance to advance the shared goal of creating beverage containers with a significantly reduced carbon footprint.

Future technologies for food and biomass production

Future technologies for food and biomass production

It is hard to imagine today how our food will be produced in just a few decades. More efficient, low carbon footprint, healthy, tasty and often grown around the corner. Let's take a look into the future.