EPD

Himax Joins Forces with E Ink to Revolutionize Smart Retail with Premier of WiseEye™ AI at 2024 Touch Taiwan

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Friday, April 19, 2024
ESL, Business Center (TV series), Metadata, Ecosystem, EPD, Artificial intelligence of things, Somatosensory system, CMOS, Partnership, CNN, Privacy, Data collection, Shelf, Advertising, E Ink, Mobile phone

Himax WiseEye ultralow power AI sensing technology incorporates Himax proprietary ultralow power AI processor, always-on CMOS image sensor, and CNN-based AI algorithm, offering state-of-the-art ultralow power, always-on sensing, on-device context-aware AI and has been widely deployed in consumer electronics and AIoT related applications.

Key Points: 
  • Himax WiseEye ultralow power AI sensing technology incorporates Himax proprietary ultralow power AI processor, always-on CMOS image sensor, and CNN-based AI algorithm, offering state-of-the-art ultralow power, always-on sensing, on-device context-aware AI and has been widely deployed in consumer electronics and AIoT related applications.
  • In an era where personal data privacy is paramount, WiseEye AI ensures the security of sensitive personal data by conducting AI inferences locally on the endpoint devices.
  • Instead, only AI-enabled personalized metadata is delivered in byte-level size to the store management system on the cloud.
  • By leveraging WiseEye’s ultralow power AI, the deployment of battery-powered devices becomes feasible, facilitating easy installation throughout the store and enabling comprehensive data collection.

H.B. Fuller Names the Winners of the Inaugural Customer Innovation Awards

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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Manufacturing, Construction & Property, Professional Services, Building Systems, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Green Technology, Alternative Energy, Environment, Energy, Sustainability, Chemicals, Plastics, EPD, H.B. Fuller, HPD, GAF, ASTM, Mastin, LEED, Multimedia, Creativity, Living Building Challenge, Temperature, HJT, Standard Industries, Online shopping

Fuller Company (NYSE: FUL), the largest pureplay adhesives company in the world, today announced the winners of its 2024 Customer Innovation Awards.

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  • Fuller Company (NYSE: FUL), the largest pureplay adhesives company in the world, today announced the winners of its 2024 Customer Innovation Awards.
  • The awards recognize three customers across industries for world-changing innovations using adhesive technology.
  • Fuller will honor the award recipients at the company’s global awards program on April 24, 2024, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Fuller website and watch the short video featuring the winning innovations.

Building Transparency and One Click LCA Partnership Improves Access to Carbon Accounting Data, Enables Decarbonization Across Building Sector

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Commercial Building & Real Estate, Construction & Property, Environment, Other Manufacturing, Environmental Policy, Environmental Issues, Environmental Health, Chemicals, Plastics, Manufacturing, Architecture, Software, Data Analytics, Other Education, Data Management, Climate Change, Technology, Education, Foundation, Sustainability, Consulting, Building Systems, Professional Services, Philanthropy, Green Technology, Residential Building & Real Estate, Training, Carbon, Rating scales for depression, Ecosystem, Learning, EPD, Building, LCA, Partnership, Communication, EC3, Environmental Product Declaration, Climate, AEC, Database, Organization, Renewable energy

By partnering, Building Transparency and One Click LCA are able to improve the flow of environmental data and create a robust ecosystem of tools needed to drive carbon reductions.

Key Points: 
  • By partnering, Building Transparency and One Click LCA are able to improve the flow of environmental data and create a robust ecosystem of tools needed to drive carbon reductions.
  • All EPDs stored in EC3 will be automatically made available in One Click LCA, and all EPDs created and published with One Click LCA will be available for EC3.
  • In addition, this partnership will help drive adoption of openEPD, an open data format for creating and exchanging digital third-party verified EPDs from Building Transparency.
  • “We’re delighted to be accelerating widespread decarbonization with this partnership.”
    Building Transparency and One Click LCA aim to streamline the resources and tools needed to drive climate action across the building sector.

Kolon Industries targets the global market with eco-friendly technical textiles through 'Techtextil 2024', a leading international trade fair for textiles

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Textile, KRX, Fabric discography, GRS, Carbon, Environment, Human, Kolon, PET, Kolon Industries, EPD, Oeko-Tex, Tissue paper

Last year, the company actively implemented digital transformation within the production process when expanding its aramid production to 15,310 tons.

Key Points: 
  • Last year, the company actively implemented digital transformation within the production process when expanding its aramid production to 15,310 tons.
  • PET non-woven spunbond is expanding its market share in Europe for carpet applications by achieving global eco-friendly certifications such as GRS and EPD.
  • "Techtextil is a good opportunity to showcase our various textile technologies in the global market," said Chief Operating Officer Choi Yoeng-baeg.
  • "The European market is especially driving eco-friendly transitions and we will actively demonstrate our sustainable technologies," he added.

Kolon Industries targets the global market with eco-friendly technical textiles through 'Techtextil 2024', a leading international trade fair for textiles

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Textile, KRX, Fabric discography, GRS, Carbon, Environment, Human, Kolon, PET, Kolon Industries, EPD, Oeko-Tex, Tissue paper

Last year, the company actively implemented digital transformation within the production process when expanding its aramid production to 15,310 tons.

Key Points: 
  • Last year, the company actively implemented digital transformation within the production process when expanding its aramid production to 15,310 tons.
  • PET non-woven spunbond is expanding its market share in Europe for carpet applications by achieving global eco-friendly certifications such as GRS and EPD.
  • "Techtextil is a good opportunity to showcase our various textile technologies in the global market," said Chief Operating Officer Choi Yoeng-baeg.
  • "The European market is especially driving eco-friendly transitions and we will actively demonstrate our sustainable technologies," he added.

Bombardier Becomes Only Business Jet Manufacturer to Disclose Environmental Impact of its Entire Aircraft Portfolio

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Aircraft, Exercise, Bombardier Challenger 600 series, Rating scales for depression, Publishing, Aviation, Climate, EPD, CO2, Bombardier Global 7500, Universal indicator, Eutrophication, Challenger, Airline

The publication of an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its Challenger 650 business jet is the crowning milestone to Bombardier’s commitment of developing and publishing EPDs for all its in-production aircraft by 2025.

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  • The publication of an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its Challenger 650 business jet is the crowning milestone to Bombardier’s commitment of developing and publishing EPDs for all its in-production aircraft by 2025.
  • “The role of EPDs is not to stamp our aircraft as more sustainable than others, rather to take ownership of the environmental impact they generate,” said Jean-Christophe Gallagher, Executive Vice President, Aircraft Sales & Bombardier Defense, Bombardier.
  • Bombardier published a self-declared EPD for its Challenger 3500 aircraft in 2022, for its Global 5500 and Global 6500 aircraft in 2023, and today for its Challenger 650 aircraft.
  • * Examples of potential environmental indicators are acidification, eutrophication, global warming, photochemical ozone creation, total freshwater use and water scarcity potential

Fristads launches their first circular product

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Sustainability, Marketing, Clothing, Building material, EPD, Textile, Environment, Recycling

Swedish workwear manufacturer Fristads has cracked the code on circular production by creating a sweatshirt partially made of worn-out Fristads garments.

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  • Swedish workwear manufacturer Fristads has cracked the code on circular production by creating a sweatshirt partially made of worn-out Fristads garments.
  • Fristads’ first circular product is a sweatshirt made from 15 percent closed loop fibres created from collected used Fristads garments.
  • The first circular product, will have an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), disclosing how much the environmental impact will be reduced by using existing fibres to make new ones.
  • Fristads’ first circular product development began in 2021 when a polo shirt was made partially from discarded garments from one of Fristads´ customers in the Netherlands.

Enterprise Receives Deepwater Port License for Spot Project

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Other Manufacturing, Other Energy, Chemicals, Plastics, Utilities, Oil, Gas, Manufacturing, Energy, Other Natural Resources, Natural Resources, MARAD, Partner, Corps, Employment, Natural gas, Documentation, Project, Transport, United States Coast Guard, Engineer, Security (finance), United, Risk, Accident, EPD, Water, Ship, DWP, SPOT, Department of transportation, NGL, Atlas

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) (“Enterprise”) today announced that it has received the deepwater port license for the Sea Port Oil Terminal (“SPOT”) from the United States Maritime Administration (“MARAD”), an agency within the federal Department of Transportation.

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  • Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) (“Enterprise”) today announced that it has received the deepwater port license for the Sea Port Oil Terminal (“SPOT”) from the United States Maritime Administration (“MARAD”), an agency within the federal Department of Transportation.
  • The license enables Enterprise to move forward to the next step in developing the offshore terminal capable of loading 2 million barrels per day (“BPD”) of crude oil.
  • “I would like to congratulate the entire Enterprise team, which demonstrated outstanding technical skills, dedication and perseverance over the past five years, allowing us to receive this license,” said A.J.
  • The SPOT platform would also serve as a reef, supporting marine life.”
    MARAD and U.S. Coast Guard led the comprehensive, four-year environmental review of this project.

Enterprise Declares Quarterly Distribution

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Friday, April 5, 2024
Other Natural Resources, Chemicals, Plastics, Oil, Gas, Manufacturing, Energy, Natural Resources, Partner, Natural gas, Enterprise Products, Partnership, Webcast, CDT, Internet, Transport, Security (finance), Risk, EPD, Treasury regulations, NGL, Treasury, Atlas

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) (“Enterprise”) announced today that the board of directors of its general partner declared a quarterly cash distribution to be paid to Enterprise common unitholders with respect to the first quarter of 2024 of $0.515 per unit, or $2.06 per unit on an annualized basis.

Key Points: 
  • Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) (“Enterprise”) announced today that the board of directors of its general partner declared a quarterly cash distribution to be paid to Enterprise common unitholders with respect to the first quarter of 2024 of $0.515 per unit, or $2.06 per unit on an annualized basis.
  • The quarterly distribution will be paid Tuesday, May 14, 2024, to common unitholders of record as of the close of business Tuesday, April 30, 2024.
  • This distribution represents a 5.1 percent increase over the distribution declared with respect to the first quarter of 2023.
  • Enterprise repurchased $40 million of its common units in the open market during the first quarter of 2024.

Enterprise to Build New Natural Gas Processing Plant in the Delaware Basin; Announces Start of Service on Mentone 3 and Leonidas

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Oil, Gas, Energy, Permian, Partner, Natural gas, Growth, Transport, Security (finance), Risk, Plant, EPD, NGL, Atlas, Delaware Basin

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) (“Enterprise”) today announced plans to further expand its natural gas processing capabilities in the Permian Basin with construction of the Mentone West 2 plant in the Delaware Basin.

Key Points: 
  • Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) (“Enterprise”) today announced plans to further expand its natural gas processing capabilities in the Permian Basin with construction of the Mentone West 2 plant in the Delaware Basin.
  • Elsewhere in the Delaware Basin, Enterprise has begun service on its Mentone 3 natural gas processing plant, which is also capable of processing over 300 MMcf/d of natural gas and extracting more than 40,000 BPD of NGLs.
  • Construction of the Mentone West 1 plant, formerly known as Mentone 4, is on schedule and projected to begin service in the second half of 2025.
  • In the Midland Basin, Enterprise announced today that the company’s Leonidas natural gas processing plant in Midland County, Texas has begun service, and construction of the Orion natural gas processing facility is proceeding on schedule with service expected to begin in the second half of 2025.