An Interview with Maxime Kieffer: Sewerin’s Approach to the Future and Sustainable Solutions

An Interview with Maxime Kieffer: Sewerin’s Approach to the Future and Sustainable Solutions

Three questions to… Maxime Kieffer,responsable commercial et marketing Sewerin #1. Sewerin is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. How is the group approaching the future? Sewerin is a German family company – whose fourth generation is now at the helm – which has 350 employees worldwide. In France, near Strasbourg, there are a little more … Read more

Biomass – Lower Austrian households prefer to heat with wood

Biomass – Lower Austrian households prefer to heat with wood

Wood fuels have significantly increased their lead in space heat generation over other fuels in recent years. This was the result of a new survey by Statistics Austria. Almost 40 percent of Lower Austrian households heated with logs, pellets or wood chips in the 2021/22 heating season. If you include the district heating generated in … Read more

Sustainable Energy Consumption in the Netherlands Increases to 15 Percent in 2022

ANP NOS News•today, 01:56 Of all energy used in the Netherlands last year, 15 percent was generated sustainably. This is according to provisional figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics. A year earlier it was still 13 percent. Solar and wind energy in particular were consumed more. In 2022, many solar panels have been installed … Read more

How to identify the weaknesses of recycled materials at the nanometric scale?

The Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble is equipped with a new tomographic atomic probe. Its objective, among other things, is to characterize defects in mixed metals during recycling, with unparalleled precision. Recycling remains essential, but not always without consequences. Some materials, if they are poorly sorted and therefore end up mixing during recycling, are no longer … Read more

INRAE ​​and ITB draw up an initial assessment of research into alternative solutions

The state recently renewed the annual exemption authorizing the use of beet seeds treated with nonicotinodes. This decision, in accordance with the law of December 14, 2020, nevertheless depends on a search for alternative solutions to be used before 2024. beet technology (ITB) presented an assessment of the first year of three studies carried out … Read more

Industrial washing centers to put an end to disposable plastic

In order to offer container cleaning services, industrial washing centers are emerging and thus allow school canteens to get rid of disposable plastic. Example Avignon, which aims for zero plastic. Ending disposable plastic: easier said than done for many school canteens. Replacing it with reusable containers, very often made of stainless steel, implies that they … Read more

Škoda Auto will pay billions for the move from coal to biomass

Ško-Energo, which supplies energy to the Mladá Boleslav carmaker, is now waiting for the project to be approved by its partners. In addition to Škoda Auto, among them are the Volkswagen Group or the energy companies E.ON and ČEZ Esco. “For the final decision, we need to have a completed economic balance sheet, which will … Read more

Crassier de Florange: ArcelorMittal escapes trial

ArcelorMittal can no longer be prosecuted for dumping unauthorized waste on the slag heaps of its Florange plant. By absorbing its subsidiary in Lorraine, the parent company is cutting the ground under the foot of justice. At the end of June 2017, the case had caused a stir. The Republican Lorrain reported that ArcelorMittal subcontractors … Read more