Month: February 2023

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Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group Finaliza a Aquisição da Cryotec Anlagenbau GmbH, Wurzen, Alemanha

TEMECULA, Califórnia, Feb. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — O Clean Energy and Industrial Gases Group (“Grupo”) da Nikkiso Cryogenic parte da Nikkiso Co., Ltd (Japão), operando sob a Cryogenic Industries, Inc. (EUA), finalizou a aquisição da Cryotec Anlagenbau GmbH (Cryotec), de Wurzen, Saxônia, Alemanha por um valor não revelado.

Uma empresa global de engenharia e construção de plantas, a Cryotec fornece serviços de planejamento, gerenciamento de projetos, fabricação e engenharia de plantas de separação e liquefação de ar montadas em skid/em contêineres e tecnologias de CO2 que oferecem soluções personalizadas para seus clientes.

A Cryotec será operada como parte das instalações da GmbH do Grupo, com sede em Neuenburg am Rhine, Alemanha.

O Grupo é composto por seis unidades funcionais de negócios: Bombas Criogênicas, Sistemas de Troca de Calor, Sistemas de Processo, Abastecimento e Soluções, Infraestrutura de Energia, e Projetos e Serviços Estratégicos. A Cryotec atuará como o centro de competência e produção do Nikkiso Clean Energy and Industrial Gases Group na Europa.

A Nikkiso promoverá e venderá globalmente os pacotes de soluções inteligentes da Cryotec que reduzem e recuperam as emissões de dióxido de carbono e apoiam ainda mais as metas de sustentabilidade do Grupo. A Cryotec terá acesso total às tecnologias inovadoras do Grupo Nikkiso desenvolvidas na Califórnia e em outros lugares, e oferecerá pacotes, soluções e estações localizadas para LH2 (Hidrogênio Líquido) LNG (Gás Natural Liquefeito), amônia e aplicações de armazenamento de energia criogênica na Alemanha e na Europa. Daremos suporte ao crescimento da Cryotec, com mais recursos e aumento das nossas atividades de fabricação e montagem na Saxônia, e com o fornecimento de soluções Cryotec na Alemanha e no mercado global”, disse Peter Wagner, CEO da Cryogenic Industries e Presidente do Grupo.

O Primeiro-Ministro da Saxônia, Michael Kretschmer, disse: “A aquisição da Cryotec Anlagenbau pela Nikkiso fortalece a globalização de uma empresa saxã tradicional de Wurzen. A Nikkiso tem experiência global em energia renovável, hidrogênio e armazenamento de energia. As energias renováveis e o hidrogênio verde têm um papel fundamental no atingimento das metas energéticas e climáticas na Saxônia. A Saxônia já é um local importante para a pesquisa e aplicação de tecnologias de hidrogênio. Estou muito contente com a contribuição da Nikkiso com sua experiência para a Saxônia no futuro.”

“A Nikkiso poderá ajudar na realização deste projeto, bem como no fornecimento e manutenção de estações de abastecimento de hidrogênio líquido e GNL no mercado europeu”, disse Ole Jensen, Vice-Presidente da Europa. “Esta aquisição é um exemplo do nosso compromisso e apoio à meta da União Europeia de alcançar a neutralidade de carbono até 2050.”

A compra foi efetivada em 3 de fevereiro de 2023.

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group
O Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group faz parte da Divisão Industrial da Nikkiso co. Lt. Japão. O Grupo opera nos EUA, sob a Cryogenic Industries, Inc. (membro da Nikkiso Co., Ltd.). As empresas membro do Grupo fabricam e prestam serviços para equipamentos de processamento de gás criogênico projetados (bombas, turboexpansores, trocadores de calor, etc.) e plantas de processamento de Gases Industriais, Liquefação de Gás Natural (GNL), Liquefação de Hidrogênio (LH2) e Ciclo Rankine Orgânico para Recuperação de Calor de Resíduos. Fundada há mais de 50 anos, a Cryogenic Industries é a empresa controladora da ACD, Nikkiso Cryo, Nikkiso Integrated Cryogenic Solutions, Cosmodyne e Cryoquip, e de um grupo comumente controlado de aproximadamente 20 entidades operacionais.

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Keyron appoints new Chief Executive Officer

Carl D Francis takes the helm at medtech group focused on reversal of diabetes, NASH, and obesity

LONDON, Feb. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today Keyron, the medical technology group focused on reversing type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and obesity via an innovative medical device platform, announced the appointment of Carl D Francis as Chief Executive Officer.

“The continuing rise in obesity, diabetes, and all forms of fatty liver disease is one of the biggest health challenges the world faces today. Literally billions of people are affected, and the numbers continue to rise rapidly,” Francis said. “Keyron’s technology is a complete game-changer. An innovative, non-surgical, endoscopically-delivered, fully reversible treatment as an alternative to drastic bariatric surgeries is as exciting as it gets. I am really proud and honoured to be part of Keyron.”

The American Diabetes Association states that today 37m Americans suffer from diabetes, with 96m having pre-diabetes. The link between obesity and diabetes is well established, and according to The World Obesity Federation’s forecast in their recently released 2022 Atlas, 67% of women and 51% of men in the Americas will be living with obesity (BMI ≥ 30) by 2030.

Keyron’s patented technology is designed to be a fully endoscopic, outpatient procedure providing the same or greater metabolic benefits of gastric bypass surgery, including a reversal of type 2 diabetes and obesity, as well as NASH and liver fibrosis.

Following successful rodent studies in 2019 and swine studies in 2022, Keyron’s first-in-human trials are planned to begin in early 2024. Keyron is targeting to achieve FDA clearance by 2028, and a US launch is planned as the first target market. The company is now making plans to raise a $15m Series A funding round.

Dr Giorgio Castagneto Gissey, Keyron’s Chairman, said, “We are thrilled that Carl will be leading Keyron as we enter this critical stage of our development. Carl brings energy, focus, and senior leadership experience to ensure we realize our full potential. Keyron has always had high profile, world-leading board members and medical advisors, and we continue to bring onboard remarkable people. We are truly delighted to have been able to attract Carl.”

Francis was previously CEO of successful nano-technology group P2i. During his tenure the group grew from a handful of employees to global leadership in the functional nano-coating space. He was most recently CEO of UK-based medtech group Eyoto which specializes in advanced technologies in the optical and ophthalmic industries. He started his career as a US CPA, is a member of Mensa, and has a BSc from the University of Cincinnati.

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Keyron is a UK-based, preclinical-stage medical device and technology platform company aimed at a highly-effective treatment of metabolic diseases. Keyron’s patented ForePass™ is an innovative medical device designed to safely reverse type-2 diabetes, as well as NASH, and obesity. The company has already demonstrated a full reversal of insulin resistance in animal studies, and recently published the results in The Lancet EBioMedicine. Keyron has upcoming clinical trials in South America and aims to then carry out further clinical trials in the USA. Its founders, directors, advisors and investors include some of the most well-known and cited professors and KOLs worldwide in the metabolic diseases space. The company is backed by multiple institutional investors based in the USA and EMEA.

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Boeing Plans to Cut About 2,000 Finance, HR Jobs in 2023

Boeing plans to make staffing cuts in the aerospace company’s finance and human resources departments in 2023, with a loss of around 2,000 jobs, the company said.

“We expect about 2,000 reductions primarily in Finance and HR through a combination of attrition and layoffs,” Boeing said in a statement Monday. “While no one has been notified of job loss, we will continue to share information transparently to allow people to plan.”

The company, which recently relocated its headquarters to Arlington, Virginia, said it expects to “significantly grow” the overall workforce during the year. “We grew Boeing’s workforce by 15,000 last year and plan to hire another 10,000 employees this year with a focus on engineering and manufacturing,” the statement said.

Boeing’s total workforce was 156,000 employees as of Dec. 31, 2022, the company said.

The Seattle Times reported Boeing, which has been one of the largest private employers in Washington state, plans to outsource about a third of the eliminated positions to Tata Consulting Services in Bengaluru, India.

Mike Friedman, a senior director of communications, told the Times the other positions will be eliminated as the company makes reductions in finance and human resources support services.

“Over time, some of our corporate functions have grown quite large. And with that growth tends to come bureaucracy or disparate systems that are inefficient,” Friedman said. “So we’re streamlining.”

The Times reported about 1,500 of the company’s approximately 5,800 finance positions will be cut, with up to 400 more job cuts in human resources, which is about 15% of the department’s total staff.

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UNDP: Work, Not Religion, Main Recruiting Tool of Violent Extremist Groups

A new report by the U.N. Development Program, UNDP, warns violent extremism is growing in sub-Saharan Africa and threatening to reverse hard-won development gains for generations to come.

Sub-Saharan Africa has emerged as the new global epicenter of violent extremism, with nearly half of global terrorism-related deaths in 2021. More than one-third of these deaths have occurred in just four African countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Somalia.

Achim Steiner, UNDP administrator, said his agency’s report sheds new light on what drives people to join fast-growing extremist groups. He stresses the importance of understanding why “violent extremist groups are able to both succeed in penetrating nation states, communities, and essentially spread their networks of influence.”

Nearly 2,200 men and women in eight countries — Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan — were interviewed for the study. More than 1,000 are former members of these groups, both voluntary and forced recruits.

At the core of this report, said Steiner, is the effort to identify what factors are most influential in persuading people to join extremist groups.

“Is it religion that is attracting people and radicalizing them or is it a push factor that has a great deal to do with the economic reality.”

The lead author of the report and regional peacebuilding adviser, Nirina Kiplagat, cites work, not religion, as the main driving force. She said one-quarter of voluntary recruits cited job opportunities and the urgent need of livelihoods as their primary reason for joining extremist groups.

“It is only 17% that cited religious ideologies for the primary reason motivating them to join and this is compared to 40% in 2017,” she said.

This is a reference to UNDP’s 2017 groundbreaking study, the first that attempted to understand the journeys to violent extremism.

Kiplagat adds women’s reasons for joining extremist groups differ from those of men.

“Women were less likely to join for ideological reasons and tended to join with family and in particular their spouses, their husbands.

“And what we find in contrast, is that male recruits tend to join with friends,” she said.

In another interesting finding, the report notes that an extra year in school decreases the odds of voluntary recruitment by 30%.

Between 2017 and 2021, UNDP reports extremist groups were responsible for 4,155 attacks in Africa and 18,417 fatalities.

Achim Steiner said he agrees the numbers are alarming, but that he believes too much emphasis is being placed on security-driven militarized responses to counter violent extremism.

He said militarized approaches often exacerbate the problem, yet they continue to predominate in sub-Saharan Africa.

“Nearly half of the respondents cited a specific trigger event that pushed them to join violent extremist groups,” he said. “And a striking 71% of those quoted human rights abuse often conducted by the state security forces as a tipping point.”

Steiner said violent extremism is not just a localized phenomenon. He said it also has a geopolitical dimension.

“Whether it is the Wagner group, whether it is the spread of Boko Haram or ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] or al-Qaida, we have seen that…once these groups gain a foothold,” this inevitably sometimes becomes part of a geopolitical drama or competition.

This, he said “is very much the tragedy for many African countries because they become part of a larger battleground.”

Wagner is a Kremlin-linked mercenary military group. Nigeria-based Boko Haram is a militant terrorist group that has killed thousands of people in its bid to force the government to adopt strict Islamic law.

The report explores pathways out of violent extremism. Most interviewed said they left the groups they had joined because their financial expectations were unmet, and they no longer agreed with the actions or ideology of the group’s leadership.

The report recommends greater investment in basic services including child welfare education, quality livelihoods, and investing in young men and women to counter and prevent violent extremism.

Lead author Kiplagat said, “Research shows those who decide to disengage from violent extremism are less likely to re-join and recruit others.

“This is why it is so important to invest in incentives that enable disengagement,” she said.

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Acadian Plant Health™ Launches Newly Branded Vision for Immediate Innovative Solutions in Support of Sustainable Global Food Production

DARTMOUTH, NS, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Acadian Plant Health™ today announced ‘Sea Beyond,’ the company’s newly branded vision designed to transition the biostimulant industry with technological solutions that respond to an agricultural production system highly stressed by climate change.

“Our ‘Sea Beyond‘ launch is our new vision, leadership, and commitment to providing innovative and sustainable solutions for global agriculture,” says Nelson Gibson, President Acadian Plant Health. “We are challenging conventional thinking to ‘Sea Beyond’ the way the biostimulant industry delivers agricultural solutions that respond to the growing global demand for food and climate stress.”

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The announcement builds on the company’s leadership position in the global biostimulant sector, to become the leading crop abiotic stress management company with patented seaweed core technology. Acadian Plant Health research and development delivers sea-to-land, science-based solutions, proven to alleviate crop stress from factors like drought, heat, chill, salinity and nutrient deficiencies, while still maintaining and improving the productivity of the crop. Acadian Plant Health products are designed and created as unique active ingredient solutions that will both stand-alone and fit into other technologies to solve key agricultural challenges.

“The more we spoke with our customers, the more we realized that there is a misconception of ‘either/or’ when it comes to performance and sustainability,” says Gibson. “There is a perception that you couldn’t get the yield you needed with  ‘eco-friendly’ products. But we’re challenging this conventional thinking. Working together with our industry partners, our biostimulants promise stronger yielding crops in a sustainable manner, which we have been proving with science for the past 40 years,” says Gibson. “What we must do as an industry now is see beyond the current state of the agricultural inputs industry and offer solutions that provide high value, crop productivity technology that shifts from a peripheral add-on to an essential component of Sustainable Agriculture. The world is changing, and we know things must change on a global basis. One company can’t do it alone. We must work together to advance sustainability for the benefit of plant and planet.”

About Acadian Plant Health

Acadian Plant Health is a division of Acadian Seaplants Limited™ – the largest independent marine plant harvesting, cultivation, and extraction company in the world. Acadian is an international leader in sustainable, science-based biological solutions for high-value crops. The company is committed to launching patented innovative products, with a focus on sustainability and regenerative agriculture. Acadian Plant Health products are used in over 100 crops in more than 80 countries worldwide.

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Acadian Plant Health™ lance une nouvelle stratégie de marque pour des solutions novatrices immédiates à l’appui d’une production alimentaire mondiale durable

DARTMOUTH, Nouvelle-Écosse, 6 février 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Acadian Plant Health™ a annoncé aujourd’hui la nouvelle stratégie de marque de la société, « Sea Beyond », conçue pour assurer la transition de l’industrie des biostimulants avec des solutions technologiques qui répondent à un système de production agricole fortement impacté par le changement climatique.

« Le lancement de “Sea Beyond” représente notre nouvelle vision, notre leadership et notre engagement à fournir des solutions innovantes et durables pour l’agriculture mondiale », a déclaré Nelson Gibson, président d’Acadian Plant Health. « Nous remettons en question les idées reçues pour voir au-delà de la façon dont l’industrie des biostimulants fournit des solutions agricoles qui répondent à la demande mondiale croissante de nourriture et au changement climatique ».

L’annonce s’appuie sur la position de leader de l’entreprise dans le secteur mondial des biostimulants. L’entreprise souhaite devenir la principale entreprise de gestion du stress abiotique des cultures avec une technologie de base brevetée à base d’algues. Le département de recherche et développement d’Acadian Plant Health offre des solutions scientifiques de la mer à la terre, qui ont fait leurs preuves pour atténuer les impacts sur les cultures causés par des facteurs comme la sécheresse, la chaleur, le froid, la salinité et les carences en éléments nutritifs, tout en maintenant et en améliorant la productivité des cultures. Les produits d’Acadian Plant Health sont conçus en tant que solutions d’ingrédients actifs uniques qui seront à la fois autonomes et intégrés à d’autres technologies pour résoudre les principaux défis agricoles.

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Plus nous parlions avec nos clients, plus nous nous rendions compte qu’il y avait une idée de “l’un ou l’autre” lorsqu’il s’agit de performance et de durabilité », explique Gibson. « On a l’impression qu’il est impossible d’obtenir le rendement voulu avec des produits “écologiques”, mais nous remettons en question cette idée reçue. En collaboration avec nos partenaires de l’industrie, nos biostimulants promettent des cultures à rendement plus élevé de manière durable, ce que nous avons prouvé par la science au cours des 40 dernières années », ajoute M. Gibson. « Ce que nous devons faire maintenant en tant qu’industrie, c’est voir au-delà de l’état actuel de l’industrie des intrants agricoles et offrir des solutions qui fournissent une technologie à haute valeur ajoutée pour la productivité des cultures, qui passe d’un ajout périphérique à une composante essentielle de l’agriculture durable. Le monde change, et nous savons que les choses doivent changer à l’échelle mondiale. Une entreprise ne peut pas y arriver seule. Nous devons travailler ensemble pour faire progresser la durabilité au profit des plantes et de la planète ».

À propos d’Acadian Plant Health

Acadian Plant Health est une division d’Acadian Seaplants Limited™, la plus grande entreprise indépendante de récolte, de culture et d’extraction de plantes marines au monde. Acadian est un leader international en matière de solutions biologiques et scientifiques durables pour les cultures à haute valeur ajoutée. L’entreprise s’engage à lancer des produits innovants brevetés, en mettant l’accent sur la durabilité et l’agriculture régénérative. Les produits d’Acadian Plant Health sont utilisés pour plus de 100 cultures dans plus de 80 pays dans le monde.

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