Innovation

Your home can be turned into an energy factory thanks to the energy transition At The Business Booster trade fair for start-ups that aim to facilitate the energy transition, it transpired that citizens can earn money from trading in green energy that they generate at home. Kleine windturbines van Wind my Roof maken van woningen energiefabriekjes Beeld: Wind my Roof One of the problems facing politicians on all active levels – European, national and municipal – is that they are not always able to sell the energy transition as a good thing. In The Netherlands, they came up with a...

KONE announces an open competition to connect almost anything to an elevator KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, is launching an open competition, KONE DX Experiments, to identify innovative new ideas on what to connect to KONE DX Class elevators. The mind, a wheelchair, a drone, a smartwatch – what would you connect?After launching the world's first digital elevator series, KONE DX Class elevators are now being delivered in many markets around the world. Together with the KONE digital platform and secure, open application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow almost anything to be connected to the...

Fast telescoping using rope pull technology for Liebherr LTC 1050-3.1 compact crane Liebherr Europe LTC 1050-3.1 available with either TELEMATIK or rope boom New alternative for crane contractors who chiefly use the compact crane inside buildings The customer has the choice – power and length or familiarity and speed Liebherr has developed another option for its successful LTC 1050-3.1 compact crane – in future crane contractors will have the choice between the existing 36 metre telescopic boom with the TELEMATIK fast cycle telescoping system and a new 31 metre boom featuring rope extension technology. The first machines with the new...

Innovation Autonomous dump trucks to operate in Norwegian stone quarry Starting next spring, four autonomous dump trucks will start hauling rock for crushing at a stone quarry on the west coast of Norway. The order is a milestone for Norwegian autonomous vehicle company Steer AS, whose vehicles had previously been used only for dangerous jobs like clearing artillery ranges.“We can now utilise our technology with a customer within an industry with a lot of potential. This is very exciting!” said Steer chairman Ketil Solvik Olsen.The customer is Romarheim, which has been contracted to operate the quarry near Osterfjord, north of...

New Sustainable Building Materials Developed from Trees Two new trees grown in the eastern United States have been identified for cross-laminated timber, a sustainable building material. Elizabeth Montalbano | Apr 07, 2020 Researchers have identified two tree species that they think are a good source of wood for a new sustainable type of building material that could promote a more environmentally friendly construction industry. The eastern hemlock and eastern white pine—two trees found natively in forests of the northeastern United States—potentially have the structural stability to be used as cross-laminated timber, or CLT, researchers at the University of Massachusetts (UMass)...