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...to say we have invented an entirely new path than to say I have retrofitted a factory and it’s 30 per cent better,” says David Winter, co-chief executive of Standard Industries, which sells specialised insulation...
...BofA’s Jadrosich pointed to risks such as a recent increase in the price of insulation from supplier Owens Corning, which cited strong demand....
...While both are led by appointees of Mr Trump, the FTC is an independent agency designed to have greater insulation from the administration....
...That followed a series of carve-outs from Hitachi, Panasonic and other Japanese industrial giants in which the size of deals had been steadily rising....
...Philips, Renault and other big industrial companies are among the pioneers of the circular economy....
...In the battery system modifications agreed with regulators, Boeing outlined how greater insulation would be placed between the cells, to try to prevent a widespread overheating....
...Chief executive Mike Thaman said the company’s insulation business returned to profitability in the quarter and roofing would “deliver another strong year” in 2014....
...The loan will also help fund new investments at its pan-European thermal insulation business....
...Nitto Denko, which has invested several tens of billions of yen in the project, is better known as a producer of sticky tape and electrical insulation....
...The scheme allows owners of financial and commercial buildings to finance energy-saving works such as insulation with bonds paid for through the property tax system....
...A report later criticised Nasa for its lax safety controls and placed some blame on Mr O’Keefe, noting that the tough deadlines he imposed had encouraged staff to cut corners and delay fixes to foam insulation...
...The German company is also planning a plant in Chongqing, central China, to make the chemical MDI, a main component for insulation foams used widely in buildings and cars....
...In the words of Frank Mastiaux, head of the renewables business at Eon, the German energy group, wind power and other forms of alternative energy are moving “from boutique to industrial scale”....
...Revenues at the building materials and insulation group rose nearly 30 per cent from £2.2bn to £2.9bn....
...Industrial regions are by no means escaping the shake-out, with car manufacturers particularly hard hit....
...Extending nine storeys into the air, it blends the industrial aesthetic of the original tower with a 1970s concrete brutalism (Ernö Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower lurks nearby) and is a fine and rather funny...
...Certainly there are bigger targets for environmental savings – household insulation, energy emissions – and the plastics industry is keen to point them out....
...General Electric, the industrial conglomerate, derives about half its sales from overseas and Caterpillar and IBM have both shown strong growth in international sales....
...WR Grace has a number of outstanding liabilities related to the dangerous insulation material....
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