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With its new start-stop coasting function, Bosch enables drivers of vehicles with combustion engines to travel in zero-emission, noise-free, and low-resistance mode over large parts of their journey. This innovative technology stops the engine when the vehicle is in motion, so that it does not consume any fuel. Whenever the vehicle can maintain its speed simply by rolling – for instance on a gentle incline – the engine is stopped. As soon as the driver touches the gas or brake pedal, the engine starts up again.

This service extends the lifespan of insulated medium voltage cables.

The theft of copper cables to the wind turbines ENERTRAG will soon be history. "We have decided to mark the cables of all wind turbines and our inventory with artificial DNA," explains Konrad Iffarth, head of the control room of the energy company.

We can therefore already find the seeds of a society that uses as few resources as possible today. Whether and how such approaches can lead to system leaps, what examples and experiences there are for this, are the focus of the upcoming analyses.

Interesting topics on wire and Tube in the interview with Friedrich-Georg Kehrer, Project Director wire & Tube.

"In view of the fact that we can apply significantly more energy to the weld with the newly developed movement pattern, the welding points are much denser and hence stronger"

LONDON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Demand for copper goods has picked up over the past month, but consumers are learning to live with low stocks as a slow economic recovery is on the cards, copper fabricator Luvata told Reuters on Thursday. The worst economic recession since the 1930s has seen copper product consumers slash their inventories as demand collapsed. The de-stocking cycle now seems to have ended. "We see the worst is now behind us and our economic analysis shows a slow but hopefully sustainable recovery," said Bob Kickham, Luvata's senior vice president of procurement.

This is, in fact, the crux of the argument: It isn't enough to simply establish clear rules in a trading center. Governments can only successfully combat speculators if they coordinate their efforts worldwide and remove the cloak of secrecy from their commodities transactions. As long as this fails to happen, the price of copper will remain unpredictable and industry will be at the mercy of speculators. Companies will no longer be able to assume that copper will be expensive when it's scarce and cheap when it's available in abundance. Speculation destroys the basic signaling function that prices have in a market economy, says Heiner Flassbeck, chief economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Although a lot of money moves around as a result of price distortions, speculation doesn't create any real value, says Flassbeck. "The only thing that's created is an illusion of value." Making Life Difficult for Everyone In the end, the popular assessment that speculators are the purest of capitalists is by no means correct. In truth, they are the biggest enemies of the market, because they undermine its central mechanism, the efficient balancing of supply and demand. In doing so, they make life difficult for everyone: for industry, which can no longer predict how expensive its raw materials will be; for consumers, who are forced to bear the costs; and, finally, for copper producers, who face more risk when planning ahead. When the executives at CODELCO in Santiago make investment decisions today, it will be another three to five years before the results become visible. That's how long it takes to develop a new mine or expand an existing mine. The company plans to invest about $15 billion by 2015, but its executives have never been so uncertain about whether their predictions are correct. One thing is clear: Production costs will continue to rise. Now that deposits near the surface, which are easier to mine, are becoming depleted, mining companies are forced to dig deeper and deeper pits.

Santiago, Nov 19 (EFE).- State-owned Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile, the world's largest copper producer, has approved construction of a new $2.2 billion mine in the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta.