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Five minutes with…Paul Avery, Schmitz Cargobull UK and Ireland’s Managing Director – Operations

SMMT

With an annual production of around 42,500 trailers and with around 5,700 employees, Schmitz Cargobull AG is Europe’s leading manufacturer of semi-trailers, trailers and truck bodies for temperature-controlled freight, general cargo and bulk goods. Which operators is your S.BO Pace trailer aimed at?

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Hydrogen, EVs may both be winners in new energy future

Plastics News

Suppliers of blow molded fuel tanks, including Plastic Omnium Inergy , have been developing composite tanks for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Spurred by the simultaneous global challenges of climate change and increased desires for energy independence, governments and multinational companies are spending billions to usher in a hydrogen era.

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Is hydrogen the fuel of the future?

E&T

But in modes where the technological pathway to net zero remains unresolved, such as aviation, maritime transport, road freight and other large, land-based vehicles, the challenge is huge and urgent, prompting intensive R&D ranging from fundamental science to demonstrator projects and ‘living labs’.

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