Mundus Nordic Green News – 6 November, 2020

Volvo Trucks signals shift away from diesel

Dagens industri has scrutinised yesterday’s announcement by AB Volvo. DI says that Volvo is now doing everything it can to convince investors that the Group is rapidly moving away from diesel engine, washing away the company’s dirty, fossil-heavy history. In the paper’s view medium-duty trucks are already functional with battery technology and next year Volvo will also start selling electric heavy trucks for use in mines and construction traffic. However the outlook is more bleak when Volvo has to convert its entire product range to electric vehicles as there is still no cost-compatible solution for the heaviest and longest transports. Therefore Volvo is investing more than SEK 7 billion in a joint venture to develop fuel cell technology together with its largest competitor Daimler..

 

World-first, large-scale plant for automatic textile sorting

Sysav, the South Skåne Waste Company is owned by 14 municipalities with a joint population of 710,000. At Sysav’s facility in Malmö a 30m long sorting machine has the capacity to sort 24,000 tonnes of textiles per year. The automated sorting is based on optical sensors that with the help of near-infrared light can sort textiles according to color and fibre composition with high precision. This makes it possible to handle large textile flows while at the same time producing textile fractions that match the needs of textile recyclers and textile companies. A total of 19 actors from Sweden’s textile fashion and furniture companies municipalities charities research institutes and authorities are collaborating on the venture under the leadership of IVL Swedish Environmental Institute.

 

Övik Energi collaborates with producer of eMethanol

Övik Energi has begun a collaboration with Gothenburg start-up Liquid Wind, which aims to locate a production facility at the Övik’s site at Hörneborgsverket, where it may produce eMethanol, from wind power and CO2. The plant will capture biogenic CO2 from Hörneborgsverket (which burns wood chips) and combine it with green hydrogen gas produced from wind-based electricity to produce eMethanol.  eMethanol can be used as an alternative to fuel, primarily intended for shipping.

 

SPBI changes name to Drivkraft Sverige

The Swedish Petroleum and Biofuels Institute, SPBI, is changing names to Drivkraft Sverige (Powertrain Sweden). The organization's CEO Johan G Andersson, says “There is a rapid transition at our member companies. What is today a development project can be a bridge to the next step in the transition or become standard solutions tomorrow. To manifest this change that provides sustainable mobility for the whole of Sweden, we now rename SPBI to Drivkraft Sverige.”

 

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