Many companies have adopted a proactive approach to the environment, with the aim of utilizing natural resources more efficiently and reducing the environmental impact of production processes, transportation and products. From green chemistry to nanotechnology, any number of fields present opportunities for dramatic environmental improvements.
Biofuels opening new markets for heat exchangers
Sweden’s Alfa Laval, founded more than 125 years ago by Gustaf De Laval, the inventor of the centrifugal milk separator, has grown into a leading global producer of equipment for heating, cooling, separating and transporting a wide variety of products,…
A Vertical Windmill
Turbines with blades that revolve on a vertical rather than horizontal axis can improve the efficiency of clean wind generators, according to the Swedish manufacturer Vertical Wind. Based in the university town of Uppsala, north of Stockholm, Vertical…
Fluid Filtering Improves Shop Efficiency
Recent years have seen considerable progress on lessening the environmental impacts of metalworking shops, specifically from the hazardous mix of cutting fluid and metal shavings that’s a byproduct of lathing, grinding and cutting machines. Sweden’s…
- An Electric Hybrid for Forestry
Hear the term “forwarder” and you might think of a company that handles freight shipments. But in forestry, a forwarder is tractor-like… - Fume Extraction for a Cleaner Workplace Environment
Air pollution is a problem indoors as well as out. In the workplace, it might be welding gases, engine exhaust in a repair shop, fumes from… - Swedish Biogas Technology Online in S. Korea
In a pollution-reduction trifecta that promises to stand as a model for other alternative energy projects in Asia, the Swedish company Scandinavian… - Breathing New Life into Large Batteries
A unique new battery regeneration process known as Macbat Midi is giving a family-owned company from the Swedish province of Värmland visions… - Innovative Software for Greener Computers
Green IT is often associated with making more energy efficient computers and TVs, removing environmentally hazardous components, and properly… - New Scanner for Biomass Chemical Analysis
It may not be as glamorous as a bank of solar photovoltaic arrays or a windmill park gracefully extracting energy from shifting air masses,… - New Fertilizer Cuts Pollution
Traditional fertilizers contain inorganic nitrate or ammonia ions as a source of the nitrogen that all plants require for healthy growth.…
