(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Watts Water Technologies, Inc. — one of the world’s leading manufacturers and providers of plumbing, heating, and water quality products and solutions — has successfully completed verification for The Water Council’s WAVE: Water Stewardship Verified program, indicating the company has assessed water-related risk across the enterprise, identified the highest water-related impacts using credible water-related data and implemented best practice in improving water stewardship performance.

During the WAVE process, Watts prioritized eight of its sites with the highest water risk, identified the watersheds in which it operates, conducted a water balance to learn more about its water inputs and outputs, and engaged the community around its selected sites.

As a result, Watts took a variety of actions at the local and global level to reduce water consumption, increase reuse, improve water quality, and reduce negative impacts upstream ... Read more »

HAMILTON, Bermuda - Thursday, 18. August 2022

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Bacardi Limited, the world’s largest privately held spirits company, today announces the appointment of Dave Ingram as Chief Supply Chain Officer. Dave brings 30 years of supply chain and strategic sourcing experience to Bacardi where he will lead the end-to-end supply chain experience -- from achieving our goal of sustainably sourcing key ingredients, to leading operations sites across the globe, to managing a robust supply chain track that brings products to shelves and consumers’ hands.

Dave will report to Chief Executive Officer Mahesh Madhavan and joins the company’s Global Leadership Team effective September 1, 2022. He will be based in Geneva, Switzerland.

This appointment follows the retirement of Jean-Marc Lambert after more than 20 years with the Bacardi operations organization. Jean-Marc will remain on board through the end of the fiscal year until April 1, 20 ... Read more »

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Thursday, 18. August 2022

Poly (NYSE: POLY) published a new discussion paper titled A Reset for Return to the Office?, in partnership with workplace research platform WORKTECH Academy, focused on companies’ race against time to ensure their onsite and offsite teams have the ultimate equal work experience albeit glaring challenges such as reluctance to return to the office (RTO).

The whitepaper highlights emerging trends and insights that are shining the spotlight on the urgent need to create new thinking, define the main challenges and explore emerging opportunities around hybrid working. Centered on a successful and effective RTO formula, the research findings reveal that most organizations are still struggling to find the perfect balance that would ultimately boost their overall productivity regardless of the location of their respective teams.

“Our whitepaper has unearthed an emerging trend that’s preventing ... Read more »

Enterprise Agreement Enables Railway to Create Digital Twin of Operations

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The 870 kilometers of Rail Baltica are divided into several sections across each of the three Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. An ongoing electric rail infrastructure project in the region, Rail Baltica's purpose is to provide sustainable passenger and freight service between participating countries and improve rail connections between central and northern Europe. To help engineers plan, construct, and manage maintenance tasks to make improvements, RB Rail AS and Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, have signed an enterprise agreement to integrate geographic information system (GIS) software across all project units.

"As the Rail Baltica project progresses, the amount of data that needs to be managed grows significantly, as do the needs of its GIS users, so the Esri Enterprise Agreement was a natural choice to ensure strengthening the ca ... Read more »

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland - Thursday, 18. August 2022 AETOSWire 

With this recommendation, eligible patients in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be able to access the first orally administered therapy for GPA/MPA, two main forms of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV)

Launch of Tavneos® in the UK is expected in the next weeks

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma (VFMCRP) is pleased to announce that England’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended Tavneos® in combination with a rituximab or cyclophosphamide regimen for the treatment of adult patients with severe, active granulomatosis polyangiitis (GPA) or microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), two main forms of AAV. The decision follows authorization from the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in May 2022.

“ANCA-associated vasculitis is a rare, systemic disease which can be rapidly fatal if ... Read more »

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- To become independent of Russian natural gas imports by 2027, the European Union is increasing near-term imports of US or Azerbaijan liquefied natural gas (LNG) or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). The main element of LNG, methane, is the second leading greenhouse gas contributing to climate change. Environmental organizations warn that long-term supply contracts for the fossil LNG will undermine the European Green Deal. The German company Graforce has developed a methane electrolysis technology (plasmalysis) that uses LNG or LPG to produce hydrogen and solid carbon for dioxide-free energy generation. Compared to water electrolysis, plasmalysis requires only one fifth the energy to produce the same amount of hydrogen.

Plasmalysis is an electro-chemical technology that converts incoming LNG/LPG into clean-burning hydrogen and solid, high-purity carbon. A high-frequency plasma field generated by renewable electricity splits energy-rich hydrocarbon compounds (10 ... Read more »