NRC to help Canadian transportation industry reduce vehicle weight
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with industrial partners. This phase will require significant government incentives for industrial partners to establish PGMand non-PGM-based manufacturing in South Africa. While it is too early in the scope of the HySA program to gauge the industry response and effectiveness of the program, it is nonetheless a good example of a conscious government effort to transition toward a hybrid economy. As more resource-rich nations make the transition toward a hybrid economy, the global manufacturing and trade landscapes will likely undergo significant changes. One area of international concern stems from the possibility of the develop-
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he Titanium Centre of Competence (TiCoC), hosted by the CSIR and funded by the Department of Science and Technology, is developing a suite of complementary technologies to help South Africa add value to its vast resources of titanium. Key to this program is the development and commercialization of a novel process for producing the primary titanium metal. The estab-
lishment of a small-scale Titanium Pilot Plant on the CSIR campus is an important milestone in this process. The Titanium Pilot Plant is unique in that it will be able to produce titanium powder at a much lower cost than present imports, making this light metal an economically viable option from which many industries can be created and sustained. South Africa’s entire titanium
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s automakers and their suppliers from around the world strive to develop fuel-saving technologies, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has announced a new program to help the Canadian transportation industry reduce the weight of cars, trucks, trailers, buses, and trains by developing innovative aluminum technology. “Canada is a global leader in producing aluminum, and now has the opportunity to lead the world in the transformation of aluminum into parts for lighter weight vehicles,” said Michel Dumoulin, General Manager of the Automotive and Surface Transportation portfolio at the National Research Council of Canada.
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VOLUME 38 • AUGUST 2013
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“This program will support Canadian manufacturers in developing lighter parts and structures that will make our vehicles more fuel-efficient, safer, and environmentally friendly.” The new Lightweighting of Ground Transportation Vehicles Program will see to the development, validation, and deployment of advanced technologies to form aluminum into parts and to assemble and join these parts into next-generation vehicles. The program will enable industry to reduce overall vehicle weight by 10% within the next eight years. Before an audience of automakers at the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association’s annual conference in Wind-
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ment of a monopoly on a specific material and any products that incorporate that material. Alan Hurd, a Franklin Fellow in the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the US Secretary
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