| Invest NI’s Energy Research and Knowledge Transfer Group visit Elliot’s Hill Wind Farm |
Elliott’s Hill wind farm is situated near Tildarg, Co. Antrim. It was developed in partnership with B9 Energy (O&M) Ltd, Renewable Energy Systems Ltd and constructed by Renewable Energy Systems Ltd.
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| TDI – SMEs, Inject some innovation into your company |
Research & Development, & Innovation (R&D,&I) is not the sole preserve of the larger companies where there normally exists the aspiration and more importantly, the resources, to actively pursue this key business development area.
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| Boomer Industries Ltd. |
Boomer Industries Ltd. was established in 1970. Located in Lisburn Co. Antrim, the company are manufacturers of extruded PVC products with many end uses, including electrical trunking and components of caravans and buses. Boomer also manufactures and sells pre-hung doors.
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| First Construction Supply Chain Club |
Envirowise is pleased to announce the launch of the very first Construction Supply Chain club in Northern Ireland. Award winning local contractor GEDA Construction will host the club, inviting key members of their supply chain to a series of three seminars focusing on waste minimisation and resource efficiency. Both subcontractors and suppliers from the civil engineering and house-building divisions of the company will also avail of Envirowise site visits.
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Envirowise Water Efficiency Event
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Envirowise will be running a Water Efficiency Event on 18 March 2008, Hilton Hotel Belfast.
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| Invest Northern Ireland invests in NISP |
Leading business representatives from across the country joined the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme at its new offices in the CIDO Innovation Centre in Craigavon on the 10th of December, made possible with funding from Invest Northern Ireland.
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| Connecting Industry-Creating Opportunity |
The National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) is a business opportunity programme that identifies and develops mutually profitable links between companies across all industrial sectors so that under used resources such as energy, water and materials from one company can be recovered or reprocessed and reused by others.
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| New Carbon Trust Publications |
As part of the Carbon Trust’s ever expanding list of sector and technology specific guidance the following publications have just been made available for order or download:
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| Incubator Workshop calls for innovative carbon saving ideas |
At the Applied Research and Incubator workshop Carbon Trust event on 14th November, Carbon Trust representatives Dr Garry Staunton (Technology Director) and Rachael Nutter (Business Incubation Manager), offered information and advice to delegates on technology development and commercialisation, how to apply for funding, and an insight in to eligibility criteria.
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| Carbon Footprint Module |
While the Carbon Trust continues to offer free tailored surveys to businesses in order to reduce energy and carbon emissions (using accrediated consultants to identify energy-saving opportunities and provide practical advice on how to achieve them), as part of the newly launched ‘Carbon footprinting’ programme rolled out in October an extended site survey incorporating an optional basic carbon footprint module is now available.
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| Carbon Trust Events |
Carbon Trust events for February and March 2008.
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| Action required to raise sustainability awareness, says new report |
A new review of five research projects to gauge public understanding of sustainability issues recommends government action to promote awareness and sustainable consumption.
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| Waste pre-treatment: how will you comply? |
The new requirements of the Landfill Regulations for Northern Ireland came into force on 30 October and raise a key question on how waste is managed from creation to disposal.
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| Funding support to provide recycling services |
Whether you need extra staff to expand your collection round, help with selling your service to more businesses, additional collection sacks or bins to provide services to more customers or a combination of measures, WRAP’s new funding support scheme may be able to help your organisation.
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| The Turn of the Tides |
The latest report from the Sustainable Development Commission reveals that the energy contained in the tide around Rathlin Island could produce over 10% of the electricity we use in Northern Ireland.
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