ANDRITZ opens Electrolyzer Gigafactory
Gigawatt-scale facility will supply Europe’s growing green-hydrogen market The new facility has an initial annual production capacity of approximately one gigawatt which corresponds to approximately 160 to 200 electrolyzers per year. At the site, key components for green hydrogen production have already been produced since March of this year, including electrolyzer cell stacks and phase […]
500 million euros: AT&S opens Europe’s first IC substrate plant & competence center
On June 3, Austrian microelectronics manufacturer AT&S officially opened its new Competence Center for R&D and IC Substrate Production in Leoben, Austria. After three years of construction and an investment of more than €500 million, 420 new employees are already working at the state-of-the-art center “Hinterberg 3” (HTB3) at the company’s headquarters in Leoben-Hinterberg. In […]
Nidec invests 22 million in Fürstenfeld
With its 240 employees, Nidec ACIM (Appliance, Commercial and Industrial Motors) operates the last remaining production plant for refrigeration compressors for the household white goods sector in Europe at its Fürstenfeld site. Founded in 1973 in Kyoto, Japan, the conglomerate employs over 110,000 people worldwide. In Austria, Nidec has been expanding the site since taking […]
How neutrons from space enable intelligent irrigation
For more than 90 years, the company Röhren- und Pumpenwerk Bauer, a manufacturer of irrigation and slurry technology based in Voitsberg, has been committed to innovation. Irrigation systems developed in Styria now irrigate 2.5 million hectares all over the world. 60,000 slurry tanks, thousands of separators, pumps and agitators are in use internationally. The company […]
Innovative technology for CO₂ conversion
Sisyphus team reaches important milestone: A team of researchers from the Chair of Physical Chemistry at Montanuniversität Leoben has developed a groundbreaking technology that has the potential to revolutionize CO₂ conversion. The so-called reverse water-gas shift (RWGS) technology creates a process for the energy-efficient conversion of carbon dioxide into valuable products. The core technology, which […]
Innovative Styrian solution for recycling steel mill dust
Metal production is one of the most energy-intensive industrial sectors. At the same time, climate change, scarcity of raw materials, decreasing landfill capacities and considerable disposal costs are leading to increased interest in innovative recovery concepts for secondary raw materials from iron and steel production. However, the processes for recovering metals and other valuable materials […]
