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Novation Awarded for Helping Hospitals Protect Environment

Novation, a leading health care supplier received an award for its work to "change the culture of the health care industry" toward greater environmental sensitivity. The company won the 2004 Champion for Change award for helping health care facilities reduce hazardous waste, use more environmentally responsible products and virtually eliminate mercury from the waste stream. "Novation is developing innovative ways to virtually eliminate pollutants from health care products and practices," said Laura Brannen, director of the Hospitals for a Healthy Environment program, which announced the award. Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) is a joint program of the American Hospital Association, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, Health Care Without Harm, and the American Nurses Association. The organization seeks to improve the environmental performance of the health care industry. Through its contracts, used by the more than 2,300 VHA and UHC member hospitals and health care organizations nationwide, Novation delivers comprehensive measures to help reduce harmful waste. Among the factors used by Novation in contract evaluations is whether suppliers are using environmentally preferred packaging programs or offer hazardous materials management initiatives. In its safety product catalogs, Novation lists "green" products, as well as products that are free of mercury, latex, PVC […]

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Dynetek Delivers Hydrogen & Natural Gas Fuel Storage Systems to Toyota

Dynetek Industries Ltd., (TSE: DNK) a leader in developing, producing and marketing lightweight compressed natural gas (CNG) and compressed hydrogen storage cylinders, announced it has delivered on-board hydrogen fuel storage systems and on-board CNG fuel storage systems to Toyota Motor Corporation. The hydrogen storage cylinders have been certified to 350bar (5000psi) and the CNG storage cylinders have been certified to 200bar (3000psi), both with approval by KHK in Japan. The hydrogen storage systems have been integrated into Toyota's FCHV. Toyota has been conducting real-world testing of their fuel cell vehicle since 2001. The CNG storage systems have been integrated with Toyota's IMTS CNG vehicle for EXPO 2005 Aichi, Japan. The CNG vehicles will be part of a real- world road test program leading up to the EXPO date. Dynetek produces one of the lightest and most advanced fuel storage and refueling systems for compressed natural gas, low emission vehicles and compressed hydrogen, zero-emission fuel cell vehicles. Website: [sorry this link is no longer available]     

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FuelCell Energy Receives Order for 4 MW Fuel Cell

FuelCell Energy's (Nasdaq: FCEL) Asia-Pacific strategic partner, Marubeni Corporation (TSE: 8002) placed an order for 4 megawatts (MW) of DFC power plants. FuelCell Energy will manufacture the units and deliver the power plants to Marubeni customers in 2005. Marubeni's order is for 16 DFC300A power plants with megawatt-class DFC1500 and DFC3000 power plants available to accommodate customer requirements. Including today's orders, Marubeni has committed to more than 8 MW since 2000 in three separate orders. Five DFC300A power plants are operating at four customer sites in Japan — Kirin's Toride Brewery near Tokyo; City of Fukuoka's municipal waste treatment facility; JAPEX's Katakai natural gas gathering station near Nagaoka City; and two units providing power and steam for Epson Corporation's Ina factory in the Nagano Prefecture. Marubeni is expanding its initiatives: * developing a network of "sub-distributors" in Japan, which will market DFC power plants in designated territories throughout the country. * creating an organization to provide operations and maintenance support services for customers. * investigating opportunities for an Asia-based assembly, packaging and testing facility — currently, all DFC power plants sold to Marubeni customers are manufactured in Connecticut and shipped to Japan. Marubeni will study the opportunity to receive fuel […]

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Three-Year Wind Tax Credit Advancing Attached to Senate Bill

A full 3-year Production Tax Credit (PTC) extension (through 12/31/06) may advance through the U.S. Senate as part of a package of energy tax incentives now attached to a corporate tax bill (S. 1637). Momentum began to pick up on Wednesday, April 7, when Senate Republican leaders chose to separate the energy tax provisions from long-stalled energy policy legislation (S. 2095) and attach them to the corporate tax bill. "This is a significant step forward," said AWEA legislative director Jaime Steve. "It creates a realistic opening for the PTC to be in effect again, possibly as early as June of this year." The corporate tax bill-seen by Republicans and Democrats as legislation that must pass this year-would repeal a tax break for exporters that has been deemed an illegal trade subsidy by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The European Union has imposed a 6% penalty payment on some U.S. exports, and the penalty is set to increase by 1 percentage point a month, up to a maximum of 17%. The penalty would be removed when the bill becomes law. An agreement announced late on Thursday, April 8 between the Senate's Republican leader, Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), and its Democratic leader, Tom […]

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