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...Factory International was already a second-hand industrial metaphor....
...Proposed investment in a home insulation programme has been cut from £6bn a year to £1bn annually....
...A further £1.5bn over three years is still pledged for renewable energy companies hiring workers in Britain’s industrial heartlands....
...being said, we still have ideas for acquisitions,” Bazin told the Financial Times, citing countries like India or Vietnam where the group does not offer the full range of materials it specialises in, like insulation...
...Central heating, alongside insulation and double glazing, made it more practical to knock through walls and create open living areas....
...First studying industrial design at the University of Kansas, he graduated with an MFA in sculpture in 1961. His earliest experiments with furniture used gunstock blanks from a local factory....
...Energy costing a one-off £8.3bn, a £7.3bn “national wealth fund” to invest in the decarbonisation of heavy industry and £1.5bn over three years for renewable energy companies hiring workers in Britain’s industrial...
...Another objection to heat pumps is that they are hard to install, require extensive renovation and insulation, and that some properties are simply unsuited to them. But this may be overdone....
...Insulation is Kingspan’s speciality. But nothing could keep the heat in its share price once the construction market looked set to peak....
...Covestro, one of Germany’s largest companies, is an insulation foam specialist that could help Adnoc expand its chemicals business as part of a broader diversification strategy....
...Labour’s announcement came on the same day as scientists said the average global temperature had for the first time breached the critical benchmark of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels over a 12-month period...
...The GPP will provide £6bn a year for a home insulation programme and a one-off £8bn investment to set up a “sovereign wealth fund” for green industrial infrastructure....
...The green agenda is also a mechanism for a more active industrial policy. This is not to decry these policies, some of which are overdue and many of which will be welcomed....
...The first is that the global average surface temperatures are already at least 1.1C above pre-industrial levels, while emissions of greenhouse gases have not yet even peaked....
...It counts makers of flooring, paint, insulation, roofing and modular homes among its subsidiaries....
...In North America, Li-Cycle has built a large black mass processing hub in Rochester near New York. The site is half the size of the planned facility in Sardinia and costs $485mn....
...The training will involve building insulation, double-glazing, improved ventilation design and installation of more efficient heating systems....
...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...
...The national wealth fund is designed to co-invest in projects that are seen as necessary to the energy transition and Britain’s industrial future, but which fall outside of energy production....
...Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete is a lightweight alternative to traditional reinforced concrete with good fire resistance and thermal insulation properties....
...BofA’s Jadrosich pointed to risks such as a recent increase in the price of insulation from supplier Owens Corning, which cited strong demand....
...Mass lay-offs at the Suape port and industrial complex, the vast site home to the refinery and shipyard, reverberated across the local economy....
...Buildings can lose energy through inefficient lighting, insulation, ventilation, heating and air conditioning. “Taking lighting as an example,” Maxwell says....
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