Tag Archives: suppliers
Walmart Announces Additional Sustainability Index Initiatives
Last month we reported that Walmart would evaluate its buyers on the sustainable products they purchase as part of their annual performance review, in an effort to get more of those products to store shelves. Now, Walmart has kicked that up a notch. At an event in Beijing, the company announced more initiatives that will green its supply chain [...]
Lighter and More Efficient: Ford’s New Carbon Fibre Technology
Detroit automaker Ford has been experimenting with a new carbon fibre technology that could help lower fuel consumption for its customers. The carbon fibre bonnet for the Ford Focus was displayed at the Composites Europe event in Dusseldorf, Germany. It is constructed from the super-strong material usually associated with bespoke racing vehicles or high-performance sports [...]
In Focus: Dupont’s Solar Quality Standards
Solar installations were removed from twenty-four San Diego Unified School District campuses after corrosion was discovered that threatened the possibility of electrical issues that could lead to fires. The 4.3-megawatt installation was built in 2005-06 by Solar Integrated Technologies (SIT). SIT was acquired by Energy Conversion Devices (ECD) (PINK:ENERQ) in 2009. ECD’s Uni-Solar manufactured the [...]
Top 5 Things Needed for A Sustainable Supply Chain
A sustainable supply chain is composed of five basic elements: Measurement, suppliers, design, partners and leadership. Here is a breakdown of these five elements by Michael Koploy from an article published in Corporate Social Responsibility. Koploy is an ERP Analyst at Software Advice and manager of Warehouse Management Systems Guide. He reports on news and trends within supply [...]
How Suppliers Can Serve the U.S. Utility PV Market
PV manufacturers are in a mad dash to determine their strategies toserve the U.S. utility PV market. Despite the fact that there is less than 300 MW of cumulative capacity connected on the utility side of the meter today, the market is widely recognized as an enormous growth opportunity over the next five years. Suppliers [...]
IBM Tightens Environmental Standards for Suppliers $IBM
You’re only as good as the company you keep. In that spirit, IBM issetting higher environmental standards for the companies with whom itdoes business. IBM has become among the first companies to requiretheir suppliers to start tracking and reducing their environmentalimpact if they want to continue doing business with the computer giant. While many firms [...]
What I Learned From Intersolar North America
After attending InterSolar in Germany in late May,I was not sure what to expect from InterSolar North America inmid-July. Compared to the semiconductor exhibit next door at SEMICONWest, it was quite well attended and busy. However, the German show wasmuch bigger and more crowded. There also seemed to be a greateremphasis on module suppliers at [...]
Solar inverter market more than doubles to reach $2.4 billion in 2008
A new report from IMS Research has revealed that the global solarinverter market more than doubled to reach $2.4 billion in 2008. Analysishas also revealed that a number of companies traditionally associatedwith industries such as UPS, power supplies and motor drives have foundparticular success in transferring their expertise to the photovoltaic(PV) inverter market. The global [...]