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LUND, Sweden, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has acquired a 20 percent stake in AMI Global, specialized in end-to-end industrial Internet of Things’ (IoT) solutions for rotating equipment, to further strengthen Alfa Laval’s position in connected services, such as condition monitoring. The signing and closing date was December 31, 2020.

AMI Global is a portfolio company of Cimbria Capital, which is a private equity firm based in the United States and Scandinavia. The 20 percent stake will enable Alfa Laval to further strengthen its competence in IoT technologies. It’s part of the company’s digital transformation and its ambitions to supply remote monitoring of products and solutions. The ability to digitize a wide range of industrial equipment will provide meaningful data and create value for the company’s customers and end-users.

«With this investment we enhance our capabilities within remote monitoring and connected services. We know that 24/7 access to process information provides users with powerful insights for decision making. At the same time, continuous monitoring enables predictive maintenance which minimize downtime giving peace-of-mind for our customers,» says Nish Patel, President of the Food & Water Division at Alfa Laval.

«We consider Alfa Laval to be an ideal business partner for the next chapter of AMI due to a strong commercial and cultural fit between the two companies,» states Henrik Skov Laursen, CEO of AMI Global. «Alfa Laval’s investment in AMI shows the importance of digital transformation and proves Alfa Laval’s commitment in first-rate technology innovation.»

Did you know that… Internet of Things is one of the cornerstones of Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, where the first three revolutions being the introduction of steam, electricity and electronics?

This is Alfa Laval 

Alfa Laval is active in the areas of Energy, Marine, and Food & Water, offering its expertise, products, and service to a wide range of industries in some 100 countries. The company is committed to optimizing processes, creating responsible growth, and driving progress – always going the extra mile to support customers in achieving their business goals and sustainability targets.

Alfa Laval’s innovative technologies are dedicated to purifying, refining, and reusing materials, promoting more responsible use of natural resources. They contribute to improved energy efficiency and heat recovery, better water treatment, and reduced emissions. Thereby, Alfa Laval is not only accelerating success for its customers, but also for people and the planet. Making the world better, every day. It’s all about Advancing better™.

Alfa Laval has 17,500 employees. Annual sales in 2019 were SEK 46.5 billion (approx. EUR 4.4 billion). The company is listed on Nasdaq OMX.

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Alfa Laval
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Alfa Laval
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BEIJING, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — In December 2020, Chindata Group(Nasdaq: CD) unveiled its roadmap to be carbon neutral for all its next-generation hyperscale data centers in China with its 100% renewable energy solution by 2030, 30 years sooner than China’s 2060 carbon neutral pledge.

With this big moonshot, Chindata Group commits to investing in clean energy with an installed capacity of no less than 2GW by 2030. Recently, the company has already signed renewable energy contracts with local governments, such as Datong and Zhangjiakou of China, totaling 1300 MW of installed capacity.

As digital transformation has accelerated, there is a growing demand for carrier-neutral hyperscale data infrastructure. That means it requires a huge energy supply in a focusing area. If the data center provider could find green solutions to this data infrastructure, it will help tech companies and their users across the world to realize carbon neutrality as soon as possible. Thus, as the first-of-its-kind company in China to launch the 2030 carbon neutrality roadmap, Chindata Group is willing to work together with partners to progress toward a sustainable future.

While catering to clients’ computing power needs, Chindata Group adopts a unique site selection strategy, putting energy as a key factor. Generally speaking, most of its hyperscale data centers are located in a region with rich wind and solar resources, making it possible to fully absorb local surplus wind and solar energy. In 2019 alone, Chindata Group has achieved a portfolio renewable energy mix of 37%.

The second solution is to use as little energy as possible. Thanks to advances in green technology in green building, IT equipment, and cooling system, in 2019, data centers of Chindata Group in service has achieved average annual PUE of 1.21, approximately 27.5% lower than the global industry an average annual PUE of 1.67 for a data center with capacity of 20 MW or more during the same period, according to Uptime Institute, an equivalent of 173,087 tons of carbon dioxide emissions reduction.

Moreover, climate change is one of the most urgent challenges facing the world today. It is more important than ever to go beyond clean energy procurement and energy efficiency improvement as usual. As a responsible corporate citizen, Chindata Group keeps testing new model to realize the perfect synergy of renewable energy and data centers by finding ways in collaboration with its partners to add new renewable energy to grids around China.

With its efforts, Chindata Group has received a number of awards by third-party organizations, including the Data Center Green Classification (Operational) AAAAA (the highest level), China National Green Data Center, Top 1 in renewable performance among China’s leading technology companies, Excellence Prize of Chinese Corporate Citizen for Low Carbon Contribution and Best Environment Case for Chinese Companies ESG Performance.

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LONDON, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today AFC Energy (AIM: AFC), a leading provider of hydrogen power generation technologies, announces the signing of the Company’s first strategic engineering collaboration agreement with Ricardo, a global leader in the creation of innovative engineering and design solutions with strong credentials across the transportation and energy sectors.

The agreement will focus on the joint creation of hydrogen fuel cell products and service offerings, with an initial focus on three key areas: marine, rail and stationary power generation.  The collaboration will develop products and services that will directly support global efforts to decarbonise transport, energy and critical national infrastructure.  

The collaboration will create opportunities for AFC Energy to grow the number of products that utilise the company’s fuel cell and validate its technical and commercial viability in the growing global market for hydrogen fuelled power and propulsion systems.

Both parties will consider the benefits achieved through the use of low cost, readily available, and high energy dense green ammonia fuel (rather than hydrogen gas) as a fuel of choice in off-grid or remote power needs, including international shipping and distributed power generation. 

Adam Bond, Chief Executive of AFC Energy plc, said:

«The role for AFC Energy’s alkaline fuel cell in supporting the decarbonisation of e-mobility and off-grid power systems through the use of zero emission fuels such as green ammonia is becoming ever clearer and relevant. 

«We are delighted to be collaborating with one of the world’s leading engineering houses in Ricardo to fully explore new and innovative ways in which our alkaline fuel cell system can be deployed across a range of industries where traditional reliance on combustion of fossil fuels is no longer seen as a viable or acceptable means of remote power generation.  We look forward to furthering our collaboration with Ricardo in our key markets of focus, with each providing enormous opportunities in their own right.»

Mike Bell, Group Strategy and Transformation Director at Ricardo plc, added:

«Ricardo has a world leading pedigree in the energy transition towards sustainable and green power, working with many of the world’s leading Original Equipment Manufacturers and industrial partners in pursuit of engineering solutions that support Net Zero aspirations.  We also recognise AFC Energy’s specialist expertise in alkaline fuel cell technology, which has highlighted the potential for low cost, high efficiency alkaline systems in off-grid and remote power environments.

«We are very pleased to be collaborating with AFC Energy is exploring new opportunities for fuel cell deployment across sectors such as marine and rail where the alkaline technology has the potential to play a key role decarbonisation and sustainability.» 

Following several months of engagement, the two companies have already jointly submitted proposals to Ricardo clients, addressing particular client needs pertinent to grid instability and the need for zero emission alternative power. Further opportunities will be identified in 2021 for joint collaboration across key markets. 

About AFC Energy plc
AFC Energy plc is commercialising a scalable alkaline fuel cell system, to provide clean electricity for on and off grid applications. The technology, pioneered over the past twelve years in the UK, is now deployable in electric vehicle chargers, off-grid decentralised power systems and industrial gas plants as part of a portfolio approach to the decarbonisation of local electricity needs.

Afcenergy.com

About Ricardo plc
Ricardo plc is a global strategic engineering and environmental consultancy that specialises in the transport, energy and scarce resources sectors.  Ricardo’s work extends across a range of market sectors – including passenger cars, commercial vehicles, rail, defence, motorsport, energy and environment – with a client list that includes transport operators, manufacturers, energy companies, financial institutions and government agencies.  In addition to technical consultancy services, Ricardo has in-house engineering capabilities that enable the Company to design and deliver high-quality prototypes and low-volume manufacturing of complex products and assemblies, including engines, transmissions, electric motors and generators, battery packs and fuel cell systems.

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BEIJING, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — A report from China Daily:

Since the beginning of 2020, President Xi Jinping has been emphasizing the need to foster a new development paradigm in which the domestic market plays the main role, and the domestic and world markets complement each other, in order to ensure sustainable development. Accordingly, the recent Central Economic Work Conference charted out the country’s economic course for 2021.

And as part of the new «dual circulation» development paradigm, the island province of Hainan is integrating the construction of its free trade port into the country’s overall development plan based on its actual conditions. The new «dual circulation» development paradigm is based on «internal circulation» (domestic economy) and aimed at integrating internal circulation with «external circulation» (global economy) to develop new advantages for China in the global market, while the Hainan free trade port is designed to promote China’s further opening-up in the new era. Despite their seemingly different emphases, the two share the same goal of sustainable development.

Further opening up domestic economy

The new development paradigm is not about pursuing closed domestic circulation. Instead, it is about synergizing the domestic and global markets. Despite emphasizing the strategic importance of boosting domestic demand, the new development paradigm does not mean China is closing the door on the outside world or abandoning foreign markets, rather it is about further opening up the Chinese economy to the outside world. And given the ever-intensifying anti-globalization sentiment in many economies, it will help the government meet the Chinese people’s growing demand for a better life.

The new development paradigm emphasizes that China deepen supply-side structural reform to strike a dynamic balance between supply and demand. And to achieve this goal, the country needs to promote higher-level opening-up by, among other things, lifting the institutional barriers that hinder the flow of factors of production to attract more global resources to China. Also, China should make more efforts to build a fair, reasonable and transparent system of global economic and trade rules, advance trade and investment liberalization, and promote greater openness, exchanges and integration of the global economy.

Incidentally, all these are also the major tasks for the Hainan free trade zone, which will act as the intersection of internal and external circulations. And given its special advantages in terms of geographical location and connectivity, Hainan is in a good position to become the meeting point of the domestic and global economy.

Middle node connecting China and Southeast Asia

Hainan is China’s southernmost province, which, from a global perspective, is the node connecting China and Southeast Asia, the two most dynamic economic regions in the world at present. A four-hour flight from Hainan can cover 21 Asia-Pacific countries and regions, which account for 47 percent of the global population and 30 percent of the world’s GDP－and an 8-hour flight can cover 59 countries and regions, comprising 67 percent of the world population and 41 percent of the global GDP.

The Hainan free trade port will adhere to high-level international trade and economic rules, and thus have special opening-up policies in terms of taxation and cross-border flow of factors of production. By making good use of these policies, the province will attract domestic and foreign goods, investments, talents, technologies and other factors of production, while facilitating their flows between the domestic and international markets. Which will make the island not only a «transit» hub but also a link between the domestic and global economies.

The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement a few weeks ago has created new development opportunities for the Hainan free trade port and will help the province use its geographical and policy advantages. For example, the growth in trade among the RCEP member states will increase the flow of people, goods and services in the region, and Hainan is perfectly placed to act as a transit hub for them.

Policy advantages of free trade port

Hainan can use its policy advantages in tax exemption for offshore and daily consumer goods to promote consumption, expand purchase channels and attract more high-end consumer goods, which will help upgrade domestic demand.

Hainan will also use the advantages it enjoys in some other fields as well as the special free trade port policies to work out new business models with greater operational value, so as to promote innovation-driven industrial chains. And through its special policies and sales channels, the Hainan free trade port will provide Chinese consumers with more quality foreign products and services at lower prices. This will prompt more and more Chinese people who travel abroad mainly to purchase foreign products to visit Hainan instead to buy these goods and thus boost the internal circulation.

Keeping in mind the huge amount of money Chinese people traveling abroad spend, Hainan will focus on opening more offshore duty-free shops, developing medical tourism in the Lecheng pilot zone and establishing an international education center. This too will help keep the money, which the Chinese tourists otherwise would have spent abroad, within the domestic market and therefore boost the domestic economy.

Since the implementation of the offshore duty-free shopping policy, Hainan has seen rapid growth in sales. From July to November, 2.4 million shoppers spent 15.72 billion yuan ($2.68 billion) in Hainan’s duty-free shops, a year-on-year increase of 61.7 percent and 205.4 percent respectively. The growth potential is still high.

Chinese tourists spent an estimated 1 trillion yuan overseas in 2019. Assuming there is no increase in the amount in the next five years, even if Chinese travelers spend 10 percent of that amount in Hainan in the next two years to buy such products, the island will attract 100 billion yuan by 2022. Add to this the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone’s goal of offering the Chinese people the fastest access to the most advanced medical devices and health services, and you have huge business potential.

So far, the first new drug used simultaneously by patients in China and the rest of the world has been launched in Hainan, and more than 110 medical devices available on the island have not been introduced in the rest of the country.

Hainan will also strive to address the thorny development issues through institutional integration and innovation, as well as by studying ways to establish branches of public hospitals, promoting medical reform such as separating medicine sales from medical treatment, and expediting the implementation of the free trade port policies, so as to create a model project to integrate Hainan’s development plan into the country’s new development paradigm.

The free trade port’s zero tariff policy for raw and auxiliary materials and tariff exemptions for goods with over 30 percent value added imported by the Chinese mainland will facilitate the development of Hainan’s high-tech and advanced manufacturing industries. The list of zero tariffs on raw and auxiliary materials has already been approved by the State Council, China’s Cabinet, and some related policies have been implemented.

By combining the free trade port’s special policies with its unique advantages, Hainan will focus more on the two ends of the «smile curve» to provide more competitive services. On one end, it will accelerate the development of design, seed breeding and other industries in accordance with the goals of building a global design center, as proposed in the overall plan for the free trade port. And on the other end, it will focus on expanding the shipping service industry and developing bonded warehousing, global logistics and distribution, and other business sectors.

As such, the Hainan free trade port has a bright future.

The author is secretary of the Communist Party of China Hainan Provincial Committee.

The views don’t necessarily reflect those of China Daily.

· https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202101/12/WS5ffcdbbaa31024ad0baa1dcf.html

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