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Xwing and U.S. Air Force demonstrate fully autonomous cargo aircraft

Robotics Business Review

Source: Xwing A joint program by the U.S. In air freight alone, just under 16 million metric tons of cargo was flown worldwide in 2023. It’s a lot of freight, requiring lots of airframes, engines, and, of course, pilots. The test aircraft has been flying autonomously since 2020 and has 500 autonomous hours across 250 flights.

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Assessing The Rising Input Costs Associated With The Global Pandemic

Donlouco

The trend actually started in 2018, lost momentum in 2019 due to economic downturn based on US import taxes etc and during 2020 saw poor demand but prices remained static due to reduced production. Fig 1: Source : Trading Economics. Increasing Sea Freight Costs. Fig 2: Source : Financial Times.

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Swedish steel mill turns to hydrogen for full-scale production

E&T

The hydrogen system was first successfully trialled back in 2020, whereby the team at Hofors reprogrammed its control system with H 2 parameters, allowing the team to switch between H 2 or LPG/NG as a fuel source to heat its furnaces at its rolling mills.

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Most commodity prices drop, but PE stays flat

Plastics News

Regional PP prices were down an average of 15 cents per pound, according to market sources contacted by Plastics News. That drop was a combination of a decline in price for polymer-grade propylene (PGP) feedstock and buyers reclaiming some margin from PP makers, sources said. The firm had sales of $21 billion in 2020.

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Stronger together: WA Super Branch supports national supply network

Manufacturer's Monthly

In 2020, the originally separate BSC and CBC branches merged, providing a much more holistic service to the area,” he said. “We In addition, the Motion Industrial Centre’s position – both geographically and within the national supply landscape – offers possibilities to navigate the current import and freight delays.

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Manufacturing PMI® at 49.1%; January 2024 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®

Fastener News Desk

The overall economy continued in expansion for the 45th month after one month of contraction in April 2020. (A There is a real short-term increase in the cost of international freight.” Fiore , CPSM, C.P.M., percent in January, up 2 percentage points from the seasonally adjusted 47.1 percent recorded in December. percent, 5.5

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Foot on the gas: How biomethane is helping hauliers decarbonise

SMMT

James Westcott, Chief Operating Officer at Gasrec, said June’s gas sales represented a 250 per cent increase versus March 2020, when demand had been soaring prior to the pandemic. Arla Foods is now turning cow manure from its farms, and food which would otherwise go to waste, into a source of renewable fuel.