Tag: manufacturing
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Michigan Lithium Ion Battery Plant to Open Today
A123 Systems, a developer and manufacturer of battery systems, is opening today in Livonia, Michigan a new plant that the company says is the largest lithium ion automotive battery production facility in North America. The plant is expected to expand A123’s manufacturing capabilities by up to 600 megawatt hours per year when fully operational (1…
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Patent Awarded for Drug Spray/Dispersion Technology
Bend Research Inc., a developer of drug formulation technology in Bend, Oregon, says it received a U.S. patent covering a process for making spray-dried solid amorphous dispersions of drugs using pressure nozzles. The patent — No. 7,780,988 assigned by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — covers a spray-drying process for producing solid amorphous dispersions…
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New Process Produces Iron Without the CO2
Stuart Licht, a professor of chemistry at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C., has developed a carbon dioxide-free method of producing iron that uses solar energy and a process of solar conversion. Licht has patented this process, called Solar Thermal Electrochemical Photo (STEP) energy conversion, which offers an alternative to the same basic polluting…
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Biofuels Plant Produces First Cellulosic Methanol
A Range Fuels Inc. plant in Soperton, Georgia — the company’s first commercial biofuels plant — has produced its first cellulosic methanol, using non-food biomass as the feedstock. The first phase of the plant’s operations uses Range Fuels’ two-step thermo-chemical process, which combines heat, pressure, and steam to convert non-food feedstocks, such as woody biomass…
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Fluor Corporation to Help Cobalt Technologies Produce Biofuels
Cobalt Technologies, a developer of the renewable fuel biobutanol, in Mountain View, California, has signed an agreement with Fluor Corporation, a global engineering and project management company. Fluor will provide engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services to help Cobalt gear up for commercializing its biobutanol production technology, as well as for Cobalt’s demonstration and commercial-scale…
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Collaboration Improves Filters for Storm Water Runoff
A group of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Filtrexx International of Grafton, Ohio, have improved on the methods for removing contaminants from storm water runoff. The runoff from storm water is particularly vulnerable to pollution in industrial areas or near construction sites. Current methods use “filter…
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Study Shows Impact of Manufacturing R&D in Michigan
The Detroit News reports today on a new study by the Anderson Economic Group, a consulting firm in East Lansing, Michigan, that gauges the financial impact of the University Research Corridor (URC), a consortium of Michigan’s three largest universities on the state: Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University. The report…
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Canadian Joint Venture to Produce Nanotech Fibers
Domtar Corporation and FPInnovations today announced a new joint venture to build a commercial-scale nanocrystalline cellulose demonstration plant. During its pilot phase, the plant, located at Domtar’s Windsor, Quebec pulp and paper mill site, will produce one metric ton of the material per day. Nanocrystalline cellulose is an abundant nanomaterial made of cellulose fibers from…
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Biotech-Manufacturing Partnership to Open Biodiesel Pilot Plant
Novozymes, a Danish maker of industrial enzymes, and Piedmont Biofuels, a biofuels manufacturer and coop in Pittsboro, North Carolina, will unveil tomorrow a new pilot plant demonstrating improved process for the production of biodiesel. The companies say this is the first pilot plant of its kind in the United States and uses a new method…
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Genzyme to Expand its Suburban Boston Campus
Genzyme Corporation, a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, plans to double the size of its manufacturing and research facilities in nearby Framingham, according to a story by Scott Van Voorhis in yesterday’s Boston Globe. The plan involves doubling the size of that facility and adding up to 1,000 new jobs, according to a company executive…