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Fortune Brainstorm Green 2013

08/10/2015Klarm Prototyping

A couple of nice rapid prototyping expense photos I found:

Fortune Brainstorm Green 2013

Image by Fortune Live Media
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Solar: How do we scale solar to be on 50% of the roofs in the US by 2018?
Presented by Panasonic
Plummeting panel and balance-of-system expenses are generating solar electrical energy increasingly competitive with carbon-intensive options. Nonetheless, the general pace of adoption in the U.S. is still slow. This working session will discover sensible breakthroughs to installing solar on 50% of U.S. rooftops by 2015. Using speedy prototyping in modest groups, participants will work together to locate solutions and then participate in the identified actions to accelerate progress.

Contributors:
David Crane, President and CEO, NRG Power
Ed Fenster, Co-founder, Sunrun
Andy Karsner, Executive Chairman and Founder, Manifest Energy
Danny Kennedy, Founder and President, Sungevity
Nat Kreamer, President and CEO, Clean Energy Finance
Paul Nahi, Chief Executive Officer, Enphase Power
Richard O’Day, Managing Director, Global Industry Options Group, Credit Suisse
Billy Parish, Founder and President, Solar Mosaic
Naimish Patel, Chief Executive Officer, Gridco Systems
Laura Spanjian, Sustainability Director, City of Houston
Howard Wenger, President, Regions, SunPower Corp
Ray Wood, Managing Director, Head, U.S. Energy and Renewables Group, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Facilitator: Jib Ellison, Founder and CEO, Blu Skye Consulting

Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm Green

Fortune Brainstorm Green 2013

Image by Fortune Reside Media
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Solar: How do we scale solar to be on 50% of the roofs in the US by 2018?
Presented by Panasonic
Plummeting panel and balance-of-system costs are creating solar electricity increasingly competitive with carbon-intensive options. However, the all round pace of adoption in the U.S. is nonetheless slow. This operating session will discover practical breakthroughs to installing solar on 50% of U.S. rooftops by 2015. Making use of speedy prototyping in modest groups, participants will perform collectively to uncover solutions and then participate in the identified actions to accelerate progress.

Contributors:
David Crane, President and CEO, NRG Power
Ed Fenster, Co-founder, Sunrun
Andy Karsner, Executive Chairman and Founder, Manifest Energy
Danny Kennedy, Founder and President, Sungevity
Nat Kreamer, President and CEO, Clean Power Finance
Paul Nahi, Chief Executive Officer, Enphase Power
Richard O’Day, Managing Director, Global Industry Options Group, Credit Suisse
Billy Parish, Founder and President, Solar Mosaic
Naimish Patel, Chief Executive Officer, Gridco Systems
Laura Spanjian, Sustainability Director, City of Houston
Howard Wenger, President, Regions, SunPower Corp
Ray Wood, Managing Director, Head, U.S. Energy and Renewables Group, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Facilitator: Jib Ellison, Founder and CEO, Blu Skye Consulting

Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm Green

Fortune Brainstorm Green 2013

Image by Fortune Live Media
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Solar: How do we scale solar to be on 50% of the roofs in the US by 2018?
Presented by Panasonic
Plummeting panel and balance-of-system fees are generating solar electrical energy increasingly competitive with carbon-intensive options. Nevertheless, the all round pace of adoption in the U.S. is still slow. This working session will discover sensible breakthroughs to installing solar on 50% of U.S. rooftops by 2015. Utilizing speedy prototyping in tiny groups, participants will operate collectively to discover options and then participate in the identified actions to accelerate progress.

Contributors:
David Crane, President and CEO, NRG Energy
Ed Fenster, Co-founder, Sunrun
Andy Karsner, Executive Chairman and Founder, Manifest Power
Danny Kennedy, Founder and President, Sungevity
Nat Kreamer, President and CEO, Clean Energy Finance
Paul Nahi, Chief Executive Officer, Enphase Energy
Richard O’Day, Managing Director, Global Marketplace Options Group, Credit Suisse
Billy Parish, Founder and President, Solar Mosaic
Naimish Patel, Chief Executive Officer, Gridco Systems
Laura Spanjian, Sustainability Director, City of Houston
Howard Wenger, President, Regions, SunPower Corp
Ray Wood, Managing Director, Head, U.S. Power and Renewables Group, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Facilitator: Jib Ellison, Founder and CEO, Blu Skye Consulting

Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm Green

ROBRADY Style Builds a Better Planet with 4 Green Good Style Awards

12/06/201512/06/2015Klarm Prototyping

Sarasota, FL (PRWEB) June 09, 2015

Internationally renowned ROBRADY design and style studio garnered four Green Very good Design awards for submissions ranging from a human powered exoskeleton to an energy efficient cookstove for building nations. The awards, presented by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and style in association with the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Research, represent the best examples of sustainable and environmental merchandise and architectural style.

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“We strive to humanize technologies,” says ROBRADY CEO and Style Director, Rob Brady. “Not just for the individual but the global neighborhood and these awards are affirmations that we’re hitting the mark.”

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ROBRADY’s 4 submissions had been varied but every met the criteria for sustainable environmental design and style and received accolades:

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The FORTIS Exoskeleton&#13

ROBRADY design teamed with Lockheed Martin, the forerunner in exoskeleton technologies, to provide a lightweight, human-powered suit. Retooled and ready for the industrial marketplace, this cutting-edge technology drastically enhances worker endurance and strength.

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The Envirofit Cookstove&#13

Addressing serious issues of security and efficiency, the design and style collaboration amongst Envirofit and ROBRADY resulted in a high-high quality, emission-totally free stove that performs in the rugged terrain of developing nations with lowered use of all-natural sources.

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The Merlin Fuel Cell&#13

ROBRADY and sister organization ARMORIT designed the Merlin Fuel Cell enclosure to be a ruggedized energy source that can go exactly where other energy sources cannot and function without having causing added harm to currently compromised environments such as disaster locations. The fuel cell also garnered an international Red Dot Design and style award in 2014.

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The Merlin Solar Tracker&#13

Created by ROBRADY and sister company ARMORIT, the innovative tracker is a rapidly-deployable energy supply that can be set up by a single individual without having tools. Like the Fuel Cell, the Tracker is made for robust environments with sensors that automatically adjust to maintain optimal positioning and stay away from wind damage, yielding improved energy output (up to 40% in some conditions).

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For more than two decades, ROBRADY style has worked with consumers to take their ideas from analysis to reality, delivering results that make a optimistic impact on the atmosphere as nicely as the marketplace.

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About ROBRADY design and style&#13

ROBRADY design and style is a multi-disciplined solution style and improvement studio that offers its worldwide client base progressive industrial design and style, mechanical design and style and solution engineering, graphics / packaging / UI-UX / internet, marketplace insights, brand and retail development, complete speedy prototyping and production program management.

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ROBRADY style delivers comprehensive speed-to-market place product options from start off-up to Fortune 100 by collaborating to determine the greatest regions of chance and generating innovative styles that drive profitable final results. ROBRADY delivers style, production and capital solutions to clientele in assistance of their research to reality philosophy.

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Waterjet is a Green Technologies Alternative for Precision Cutting

16/09/201416/09/2014Klarm Prototyping

by brewbooks

Today, at a time when most industries are seeking at approaches to switch to greener technologies, waterjet supplies an optimal solution for the identical. It is a quite atmosphere-friendly strategy as compared to standard cutting technologies. This cutting approach basically comprises utilizing high-pressure jets of water to reduce and design and style numerous components. The applications consist of cutting of stone, metal, wood, certain food goods and glass among other things. Following are some applications and advantages of this approach of cutting:

Green technologies: This technique of cutting does not leave behind a residue, nor does it leave behind dust, smoke or a heat affected zone. This does not leave behind hazardous waste because it does not involve the use of heavy chemicals. This technology can also be utilized in cutting and designing recycled supplies. Because it does not demand higher temperatures to cut components, it eliminates the fears of melting the material being reduce.

Economical: Waterjet is not just environment-friendly, but also economical because it does not involve wastage of water. Since it utilizes only water, there is no toxicity in the procedure. Also, it calls for only as significantly as half to one particular gallon of water per minute. The water that is utilised in cutting can be re-cycled and re-utilized.

Non-toxic: This method of cutting is non-toxic since it does not emit any harmful gases. The waste water generated via this method can be filtered and simply disposed off in the drain without having the fear of this water getting a adverse impact on the environment. In case an abrasive is used with water for cutting challenging objects, the utilized water can be recycled effortlessly. As compared to other cutting components such as asbestos and fiberglass, waterjet does not lead to smoke, vapors, dust and so on.

Accuracy: This technique of cutting is one particular of the most precise ones in industrial use. These tasks with really tight tolerances can be reduce employing this strategy. This feature is additional enhanced with the application of the CAD software, which can assist accomplish just about any geometrical shape or design. Lasers and flames create heat zones and not adhering to the right temperatures could mean that there is a worry of the object melting. The precision element is what tends to make waterjet cutting best for flooring inlays.

Taking into consideration all these elements, you can now gauge for yourself the rewards that waterjet provides more than traditional implies of cutting.

Hydro-Lazer is a premier waterjet cutting service provider from modest retailers to large manufacturing companies. We have completed many waterjet cutting and flooring inlays jobs in several distinct industries.

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Be Green Packaging Enters Into Strategic Sustainable Packaging Alliance With Broadway Industrial Group

25/08/201425/08/2014Klarm Prototyping

Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) August 20, 2014

Be Green Packaging is proud to announce that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Shanghai Broadway Packaging and Insulations Materials Co., Ltd., a leading foam plastics manufacturer as its key molded fiber packaging supplier and partner.

SHBW is a subsidiary of Broadway Industrial Group Limited, a Singapore based company founded in 1969 and listed on the stock exchange of Singapore. SHBW is one of the largest molded packaging producers in Asia and a key supplier to all the major OEM’s and to many of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers. The alliance with Be Green Packaging will allow Broadway to extend its current range of pulp packaging to its existing customer base. Be Green Packaging is known worldwide for its advanced plant fiber packaging technology such as the ability to produce zero-degree draft angles and other precision customization options such as embossing, printing and colorization.

“We are pleased to be working with Broadway and grateful for our close relationship with Yong Inn Nam and K K Lee, who have been instrumental in getting this alliance formed,” stated Robert Richman, Co-CEO at Be Green. “Both Be Green and Broadway are leaders in their respective industries and this alliance is going to be a win-win situation for our customers and the planet.”

Co-CEO Ron Blitzer went on to comment that, “This relationship is going to rapidly expand the reach of both companies and allow us to meet the ever increasing demand for sustainable, environmentally-friendly plant fiber packaging that the world’s leading, innovative companies are demanding.”

Be Green Packaging is best known for it’s iconic Cradle to CradleCM certified food service trays and containers, which can be found at Whole Foods Markets across the US, Canada and UK. Over the past few years the company has expanded its roster of customers to include some of the world’s largest consumer product brands including companies such as Proctor & Gamble, Gillette, Google and Jawbone, among others. In early 2014, a majority stake in the company was acquired by the Riverside Group, a global private equity firm, which allowed Be Green to rapidly expand its China manufacturing capacity including the opening of the first plant fiber China manufacturing facility in the United States in South Carolina.

Be Green’s products are made from a proprietary blend of rapidly renewable plant fibers such as bamboo, bulrush, wheat straw and bagasse, all of which have been certified compostable and recyclable (where facilities exist).

Be Green Packaging

Be Green Packaging LLC. manufactures and distributes Cradle to Cradle Certifiedcm, tree-free, and biodegradable packaging for the food service and consumer markets. The company designs and engineers products made from annually renewable plant fibers that are safe for people and healthy for the planet. Be Green is currently in the process of opening the first plant fiber China manufacturing facility in the US in Jasper County, South Carolina. The plant will be operated according to Cradle to CradleCM principles. http://www.begreenpackaging.com

Broadway Industrial Group

Established since 1969, Broadway Industrial Group is a global leader in the manufacture of precision-machined components and foam plastic solutions. The Group was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange Main Board in 1994.

Through its-wholly owned subsidiary Compart Asia, the Group is one of the top manufacturers of actuator arms and related assembled parts for the global hard disk drive industry. Leveraging on its expertise in precision machining, Compart is also expanding into the manufacture of precision components for the electronics, semiconductor, automotive and other industries.

With over 40 years of track record, Broadway is also a leading provider of eco-friendly foam solutions for packaging, insulation, automotive, medical and other applications. With its emphasis on innovation, quality and reliability, Broadway’s foam plastic division has developed a strong pool of global customers in the automotive, consumer electronics, construction, shipbuilding and other emerging industries. Headquartered in Singapore, Broadway comprises of over 14 China manufacturing facilities in China, Thailand and America. http://www.bigl.com.cn

The Riverside Company

The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm focused on acquiring growing businesses valued at up to $ 250 million (€200 million in Europe). Since its founding in 1988, Riverside has invested in more than 330 transactions. The firm’s international portfolio includes more than 70 companies. http://www.riversidecompany.com