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Danfoss receives
UK grant to decarbonise construction machinery
Danfoss Power Solutions has secured a grant worth £407,112 from the UK government to accelerate the electrification of construction machinery. The UK Department for Business Energy and Skills awarded the grant through its Red Diesel Replacement competition, which seeks to accelerate the transition to electric off-road vehicles such as excavators and wheel loaders. Danfoss plans to combine electrification with its Digital Displacement technology to significantly improve machine efficiency. Reducing energy consumption by as much as 50 per cent, the technology can dramatically decrease the size of batteries needed to power the machines and the amount of energy needed to charge them. Danfoss is already constructing a £25 million state-of-the-art manufacturing, research, and development facility in Scotland to commercialise its Digital Displacement technology and Editron electric drivetrains.
“Our new UK facility will be an important
hub for Danfoss decarbonisation programs,” said Leif Bruhn, Head of Digital Displacement, Danfoss Power Solutions. “This grant from the UK government recognises the potential of our efforts and will help us realise our plans. These funds will be used to accelerate the work we’re doing to develop next-generation, climate-friendly technologies in hydraulics, digitalisation, and electrification.” Danfoss research has shown that as much as 70 per cent of an excavator’s energy is wasted in the hydraulic system between the engine and the
working functions. Significantly reducing this energy loss enables future machines to use much smaller, and therefore cheaper, batteries. “This new grant will accelerate technological
developments to reach 50 per cent improvement,” Mr Bruhn said. “Our goal is to make electric off- highway machines cheaper to own and run than diesel equivalents. This program will allow us to prove that combining better efficiency alongside electrification is the most effective way to bring down cost, improve performance, and hasten the adoption of electric off-highway machines worldwide, which is what we all want to achieve.”
RS Group announces formation of RS Safety Solutions
RS Group has announced the launch of the RS Safety Solutions brand, which brings together the existing RS personal protection equipment (PPE) capabilities with the operations of Needlers Limited and John Liscombe Limited, both of which are based in the UK. RS Group acquired the brands in 2020 and 2021 respectively. Both are leaders in their fields with Needlers largely serving the food processing industry with its PPE and hygiene products, and Liscombe primarily operating in industrial sectors, where safety and personal protection is critical. The combination of the two businesses within
RS Safety Solutions will enable the leveraging of their respective strengths to serve customers in industrial and food processing markets and address their requirements for PPE and safety and hygiene equipment. “The launch of RS Safety Solutions is a hugely exciting moment for us,” commented Mark
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Day, Managing Director at RS Safety Solutions. “Our existing customers will recognise that our combined operations are now clearly part of one extremely well-known brand, which will help to strengthen our product range and give us a truly global reach.”
RS TO SPONSOR ‘EVERYWOMAN IN TECHNOLOGY AWARDS’ Elsewhere, RS is continuing its sponsorship of the ‘Tech for Good’ award at the 2023 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards. The company said it is supporting this initiative as part of its commitment to driving change and helping the industry toward a more sustainable and inclusive
future through people and innovation. The FDM everywoman in Technology Awards shine a spotlight on the tech industry’s most exceptional talent, from the UK and beyond. The winner of the Tech for Good award will be a woman who has been judged to be driving forward an initiative that uses technology to make a positive difference; this could be as part of a social enterprise for diversity and inclusion, or a focus on sustainability, or in any other area of impact.
Leading RS’s participation in this initiative
is Adele Baker, New Ventures Development Director. She said: “We are once again proud to support the everywoman awards and we praise its drive for gender parity in the workplace.” The awards’ Judging Day will be in January, when successful entrants will be selected as category winners. The awards ceremony will be held in London in March.
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