Industry News

We have been talking to a number of people recently about possible management buyouts and we thought you might find it interesting to read about our thoughts on them. Management buyouts are, as the name suggests, when the management decide to buy the company they work for. In the firs

Environmental charities and sustainability experts are calling on company bosses to encourage their staff to walk and cycle to work and reap the rewards of a more productive workforce. The advice to businesses of all sizes comes in the wake of a recent study which concludes that peopl

Researchers in London have developed a device that uses sound to help generate an electrical charge, a development that could see mobile phones recharged by everyday background noise. The device uses the piezoelectric properties of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods to harvest energy from vibr

British scientists have proposed a way of making it easier and cheaper to run hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles by filling them with ammonia.  The researchers have developed a way to cut the costs of making hydrogen from ammonia, which can be transported and stored much more easily than hyd

A Scottish start-up that has designed a simple heating control device that can cut energy bills by 30 per cent by automatically ‘chopping’ the length of time a boiler is on for, has signed its first major contract with a housing provider that will see its system installed

Coca-Cola is set to launch a new greener, lower-calorie version of its best-selling drink in the UK later this year. Cola-Cola Life will contain a third less sugar content and will make use of Coca-Cola’s innovative plant-based packaging, PlantBottle, the company said. In a stri

A new partnership announced between car conglomerate Ford and food giant Heinz suggests an imminent breakthrough for vehicle manufacturing using sustainable bio-plastics. Researchers at both Ford and Heinz are currently investigating the application of tomato fibres in developing comp

Aston University is working on a project to help produce sustainable biofuels for marine diesel engines. As part of the ReShip project, a three-year endeavour funded with £321,000 from Norwegian industry partners and the Research Council of Norway, Aston will use its expertise in fast

Dutch sustainable energy firm Eneco has secured a contract from the local passenger railway operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) for the supply of green electricity. From 2018, trains will be running on green power, enabling 1.2 million passengers to travel with zero emission transpor