As comebacks go, Abengoa’s has been pretty impressive. The company that has been through a traumatic one-and-a-half years, in April 2017 wowed the industry with a massive €240 million contract win from Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power.

“If everything goes to plan, my expectation is that we will have graphene oxide membranes in large scale production within the next five years,” says Rahul Nair, professor of materials physics and Royal Society university research fellow at the National Graphene Institute and School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, at University of Manchester, UK.

Former European Space Agency scientist Tim Harper, now chief executive of G2O Water Technologies, talks graphene-coated membranes

MEDAD Technologies, a specialist in adsorption, has worked to commercialise a multi-effect distillation adsorption desalination (MED-AD) system since spinning off from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2012.

A transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for June 5, 2017.

On 1 May 2017, Fredrik Ostbye, a Swedish entrepreneur with a track record of digital product development, joined the 72-year old Danish pumps manufacturer Grundfos in the newly created role of group vice president and head of digital transformation.

GMB, the aviation union, has asked to be allowed to contribute to the inquiry into the reasons for the BA IT outage. The union has also asked for a moratorium on BA plans to outsource the jobs of a further 600 direct employed BA IT jobs. Yesterday, a whistleblower told the Press Association that BA …

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Flex Logix, the eFPGA IP company, has won a slot in a deep learning IC being made on TSMC’s  16nmFFC process by Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Flex Logix and the Harvard researchers have already completed the chip design and tape-out and are now going to fab. “This cooperation with …

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Three days from a general election and the elected politicians are in a right old flutter, Ed confides to his diary. The crazy thing was the PM, a fortnight before a general election, announcing she’s going to screw the old folk. Unlike the young, the old actually vote – they have nothing else to do …

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EnSilica, the Wokingham semiconductor IP specialist,  and sureCore, the Leeds low-power SRAM IP  provider, have developed an ultra-low power IoT reference platform for wearable consumer and medical applications. The IoT reference platform has been taped out using TSMC’s commercially available 40nm Ultra Low Power (40ULP) process technology. TSMC’s 40nm process integrates 193nm immersion lithography technology …

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