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Energy-efficient machine tools help to reduce operating costs for users and increase productivity. Investments in new machinery and equipment must make financial sense for the future. At the same time, it must be possible to operate machines efficiently and adapt them flexibly to meet new product requirements. This is what users are looking for in new machines. A central component of efficient machine operation is end-to-end management of energy requirements and usage.

Elektrokoppar said that payment terms with end-users need to be shortened due to record high copper prices. The Swedish copper wirerod producer commented that fabricators cannot act as bankers and have to shorten payment terms by nearly 50% compared to last year. The company decided to reduce production of copper wirerod by 20% from 2010 in order to cut the stock level needed to be financed. The main wirerod mill operations have gone down from four shifts to three. At the current copper price levels, Elektrokoppar decided to cover the north European market than selling to other markets with high freight rates and high financing costs.

Luvata's North American rolled copper products business is asking some clients to buy their own cathode. The semis fabricator aims to switch a portion of its customers to tolling deals as an alternative to 30-day payment terms, which is a move to reduce its exposure to rising copper prices. Luvata said that semis production involves a 60-75 days of cash tied up.

"The EU is considering proposals that could require the upgrade of 15 million buildings across the region by 2020 to reduce their energy use by a fifth, according to a report from Reuters."

Stuart Wilkie, Managing Director of Cogent Power, said: "These new high-grade products will make a significant contribution to the preservation of natural resources by reducing the energy lost in the generation and transmission of electricity. They benefit our customers and the whole of society."

"Rising energy costs, sharp regulations and global issues such as climate change have reinvigorated interest in industrial waste heat recovery (WHR) as a tool to increase energy efficiency. WHR offers numerous benefits, both financially and socially, including energy efficiency, reduced emissions and cost savings."

"Are there any new insulation materials? Or flexible conducting materials? The latest flop was aluminium gauge, but other than that there is nothing really innovative available in reducing the weight of the harness assembly content? "

"Targeted outcomes include state-of-art industrial accepted methods to reduce risk and cost Continued effort on cost reduction needed to help secure future of global wind business - especially offshore"

"The use of copper - which is much cheaper and more abundant - as an alternative electrode material to silver would dramatically reduce the cost of these nanowire materials. Despite these advantages, copper nanowire conductors face a serious bottleneck for future practical use in flexible and stretchable optoelectronics: although they are nearly as conductive as silver, this conductivity is not stable. Researchers have now demonstrated conductive copper nanowire elastomer composites with ultrahigh performance stability against oxidation, bending, stretching, and twisting. This material offers a promising alternative as electrodes for flexible and stretchable optoelectronics. "

"Decreasing the power needed to run a vehicle's operating system could reduce battery and alternator weight and perhaps eliminate some power-generating equipment, trimming vehicle size and weight."

"However, despite this fact, problems with bacterial infections are common in clinical practice. Patients with such complications usually require admission to hospital for up to two weeks longer than the normal patient. Not only do people suffer, but also the cost associated with hospitalization runs into thousands and millions of dollars. Dressings with our coatings could significantly reduce these problems," says Dr. Katarzyna Wybranska (IPC PAS). "

"Copper-clad aluminum wire which is composed of aluminum core clad with ETP copper was exploited to solve the problem of the copper price increasing by replacing traditional copper wire with copper-clad aluminum wire in the alternator for vehicle application. The aluminum winding alternator parameter was designed and the alternator was tested. The test data show that copper-clad aluminum can offer most of the advantages of aluminum, such as having lighter weight and lower cost than copper, but without the main perceived disadvantages of aluminum. With right parameter and well welding, aluminum winding can replace copper winding to reduce the alternator cost. "

Laravel, a PHP web framework, keeps on evolving with the passage of time. Keeping in mind the constant evolution a developer has to consider some of the best practices to create an error-free web solution. Using migrations, reducing the usage of plugins, etc. are some of the best practices that every Laravel developer needs to follow.