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Finnish company to deliver new landing craft for Dutch Marine Corps
Finnish company Marine Alutech Oy has been contracted to deliver a new generation of landing craft to the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps. Credit: Marine Alutech The littoral assault craft (LAC) will become the Marine Corps’ new landing craft,...

Online home goods company to close another NKY warehouse, lay off over 200 workers
A popular online furniture company will be permanently closing its Northern Kentucky warehouse next year, laying off more than 200 people. Wayfair, the Boston-based furniture and home goods e-commerce store, will be shutting down its Erlanger...

Volt Carbon Technologies Announces $300,000 Placement
Volt Carbon Technologies Inc. (TSXV: VCT,OTC:TORVF) (OTCQB: TORVF) ("Volt Carbon" or the "Company") is pleased to announce its intention to complete a non-brokered private placement financing of up to 20,000,000 units (the "Units") at a price of...

French company to ship drone components to Israeli manufacturer: Report
ISTANBUL French company Sermat will ship drone components to Israeli weapons producer Elbit Systems, investigative media outlet Disclose revealed on Friday. Sermat is reportedly set to ship a consignment of equipment on Oct. 20 for drones designed...

Trump’s threats succeed in halting global plan to reduce shipping emissions
Shipping containers line the Ever Most cargo vessel docked at the Port of Oakland on April 3, 2025, in California. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) A plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions in shipping supported by much of the maritime industry was...

Good News, Bad News As Rondo Energy 100 MWh Heat Storage Facility Goes Live
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. First the good news. Rondo Energy has developed technology that uses electricity — preferably from renewable energy sources — to heat fire bricks to temperatures of 1500º C...

Nations delay vote on shipping decarbonization rules after fierce US resistance
The shipping sector was widely expected to become the first industry to adopt a binding set of global greenhouse gas emissions rules during an Oct. 14-17 meeting in London. Instead, member countries of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)...

Sports Fishing Championship Deploys DigitalGlue Storage Platform
MURRIETA, Calif.—The Sports Fishing Championship (SFC) has deployed DigitalGlue’s creative.space storage platform to streamline video production by centralizing media management and post-production editing with unified workflows that accelerate...

Gold extraction from cyanide: New tech boosts precious metal recovery by recycling toxin
Scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have developed a new process designed to improve gold recovery and recycle toxic cyanide used in mining. The method, called ‘Sustainable Gold Cyanidation Technology,’ has completed a...

Gravity battery could power tall buildings using elevator-style energy storage system
A new energy storage system for high-rise buildings has been introduced in Canada. Designed by University of Waterloo researchers, the solid gravity energy storage system is claimed to be suitable for storing renewable energy. The system combines...
Packeta Romania opens new logistics center in Oradea
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 Packeta Romania, a global digital platform for online commerce and part of Packeta Group, a technology and logistics company with extensive presence across Europe, is expanding its infrastructure on the local market by...

Tiruppur Corporation to utilise site in Iduvai village for temporary storage of solid waste
A site in Iduvai village will be utilised by the Tiruppur City Municipal Corporation for temporary storage of solid waste, after fulfilment of the conditions of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, according to a directive of the Madras High...

Fortress Power Launches the eBoost Energy Storage System
16kWh Battery System Offers Simplified Design, Sustainable Backup Power, and Seamless Integration with the Envy Duo 21 Inverter LANGHORNE, Pa., Oct. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Fortress Power, a leading provider of advanced battery energy...

IMO Delays Vote on Global Shipping Carbon Tax by One Year After U.S. Pressure Campaign
Governments at the International Maritime Organization decided to postpone for one year the adoption of the world’s first global carbon pricing system on shipping at the Extraordinary Session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee in...

Beyond infrastructure: How India’s festive season reveals the true DNA of logistics
In logistics, discussions on network, capacity and optimisation are common. But India's festive season pushes much more than infrastructure to its limits. It brings to the fore an industry's DNA: shared values and culture that drive teams beyond...

China Surpasses US in 57 of 64 Critical Technologies, Urging Strategic Reevaluation
In the escalating rivalry between global superpowers, recent analyses indicate that China has surged ahead of the United States in a majority of critical technologies, marking a pivotal shift in innovation dominance. According to a report from the...
Angus Taylor’s 2022 takedown of green battery tech starting to look very accurate
If the great energy transition had gone according to plan, the demolition squad would be knocking down the Eraring coal generator right now to clear the way for some big, new, shiny batteries. In 2022, Origin Energy announced it was bringing...

Electric Vehicles as a Clean Energy Storage Solution
How can electric vehicles (EVs) contribute to lower power grid emissions? This is what a recent study published in Environmental Science & Technology hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how strategically using EV charging...

Trump Just Torpedoed Investors’ Big Bets on Decarbonizing Shipping
Today, members of the International Maritime Organization decided to postpone a major vote on the world’s first truly global carbon pricing scheme. The yearlong delay came in response to a pressure campaign led by the U.S. The Net-Zero Framework —...
Chiefs Recognize Tech. Sgt. Jamie Gardner as This Week's Tribute to the Troops Honoree Presented by Crown Royal
A member of the Air National Guard since 2018, Gardner began her career as a logistics planner tasked with coordinating movement of personnel and equipment to support federal and state deployment initiatives. It was a major responsibility, and...