Business News 3 Hydrotechnik UK Ltd is renaming and rebranding


With effect from the 11th of September onwards, Hydrotechnik UK Ltd will be known as Hydrotechnik UK Test Engineering Ltd.


The name change is to better reflect the range and depth of products and services manufactured and offered. Hydrotechnik UK Test Engineering Ltd is and will remain, the home of Hydrotechnik GmbH products in the UK. That said, they also design and manufacture an expanding range of test products in their own right, from wireless test and logging/cloud solutions to serialised data loggers and multi-function test rigs.


Richard Price, MD of Hydrotechnik UK Test Engineering Ltd said, “The new name change, logo and colour scheme will help us to differentiate ourselves from Hydrotechnik GmbH, because, although we represent Hydrotechnik GmbH products in the UK, we are separate entities and have an everincreasing test product portfolio designed and built in the UK. We are increasingly involved in wireless sensing, data logging and designing and manufacturing bespoke test rigs for oil, water and hydrogen applications. We want to position ourselves at the cutting edge of testing and continue to invest and grow our product portfolio”.


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Faster progress needed to meet EU resource-efficiency targets, ensure sustainable use of materials and enhance strategic autonomy


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The EU must continue its efforts to reduce consumption of materials and generation of waste to achieve a more circular economy according to the recently published European Commission’s revised Circular Economy monitoring framework. Faster progress is needed to meet EU resource-efficiency targets, ensure sustainable use of materials and enhance strategic autonomy.


The revised framework helps to better track progress in the transition to a circular economy in the EU and considers how it can contribute to climate neutrality, resilience and global sustainability.


Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevi?ius said ‘The exponential rise in the extraction of resources is the root cause of the triple planetary crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Most materials, together with the embedded energy and other resources used in their production, are too quickly discarded in our atmosphere, water and land. The revised monitoring framework highlights the need to speed up the transition towards a circular economy, which has been expanding in terms of


investments, value added, jobs and innovation in the EU. Circularity makes our growth model more sustainable, competitive and resilient to current and future energy and security of supply challenges.


The revised monitoring framework for circular economy includes new indicators, such as material footprint and resource productivity. These indicators monitor the material efficiency of the EU’s production and consumption system. It also includes new indicators to measure progress towards the waste prevention targets. All these are key building blocks of a circular and zero-pollution economy. In addition, the framework monitors the contribution of a circular economy to sustainability, climate neutrality and resilience, by taking account of the consumption footprint, greenhouse gas emissions from production activities, material imports dependency and EU self- sufficiency for critical raw materials.


The data show that while EU production has become more resource-efficient, EU consumption of materials remains very high and needs to decrease in the future. In 2020, each European was responsible for 35 kg of plastic packaging waste, a 25% increase from 2010. The EU is managing waste more sustainably, but large differences among Member States remain and major efforts are needed to improve the management of some waste streams, in particular plastics.


Despite some improvements in circularity, the EU economy is still mostly linear, with secondary materials accounting for less than 12% of all materials used in the EU economy. Trade in secondary raw materials is increasing both within the EU and with non-EU countries. For many specialty metals and rare-earth elements (such as lithium, gallium and neodymium), the end-of-life recycling input rate is around 1%, while end-of-life recycling rates reach 16% for nickel and 22% for cobalt, both of which are raw materials used in batteries.


In recent years, circular economy sectors have become more innovative and grown in terms of investments, value added, and jobs. In the EU, private investments in specific economic sectors relevant to the circular economy amounted to EUR 121.6 billion in 2021, equivalent to 0.8% of the EU’s GDP. The sectors employed 4.3 million people, an increase of 11% compared with 2015, while the added value in the circular-economy sectors increased by 27% to reach around EUR 299 billion.


EU greenhouse gas emissions from production activities decreased by around 25% in 2008-2021, showing that the transition to a circular economy plays an important role in meeting climate neutrality. However, the EU’s consumption footprint increased by 4% between 2010 and 2021 and has led to impacts which are crossing certain planetary boundaries.


Monitoring progress towards a circular economy is essential to assess the effectiveness of EU policies and measures, and to identify best practices for circularity. In 2018, the Commission adopted an EU monitoring framework for the circular economy to measure progress in the EU and its Member States, based on available data from official European sources. It included ten indicators covering key aspects of circular economy and the priorities of the 2015 circular economy action plan, addressing production and consumption, waste management, secondary materials and competitiveness and innovation.


As announced in the circular economy action plan of 2020, the Commission has revised the circular economy monitoring framework to ensure it responds to the latest circular economy priorities, taking better account of climate neutrality and other priorities of the European Green Deal. It also responds to the recommendations from other EU institutions and stakeholders.


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THERE ARE AN ESTIMATED 5.25 TRILLION PIECES OF PLASTIC WASTE IN OUR OCEANS. 269,000 TONS FLOAT, 4 BILLION MICROFIBERS PER KM² DWELL BELOW THE SURFACE.


MORE THAN 90% OF OUR OCEAN PLASTICS COME FROM JUST 10 RIVERS


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70% OF THE EARTH’S FRESH WATER IS LOCKED IN THE FROZEN CONTINENT OF ANTARCTICA.


ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES HAVE PROVEN THAT SOME OF THE EARLIEST SEWER SYSTEMS WERE DEVELOPED IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BCE IN THE ANCIENT CITIES OF HARAPPA AND MOHENJO-DARO IN PRESENT-DAY PAKISTAN.


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