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Ford Begins Manufacture of EcoBoost Engines at Cleveland Plant

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Ford Motor Company is resuming production at Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1, which becomes the first manufacturing site to build Ford’s new fuel-efficient EcoBoost engines. Ford invested $55 million for tooling and equipment upgrades at Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 to build the EcoBoost engine. Cleveland Engine Plant No.

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US DOT awards $13.6M to 8 projects to advance fuel cell technology for transit industry

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million) and the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), two non-profit organizations that are responsible for developing and managing projects as part of the National Fuel Cell Bus Program. CALSTART Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority; ElDorado National; BAE Systems; Ballard Power Systems. Consortia lead.

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Automakers and suppliers part of DOE Better Climate Challenge

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Any organization with a portfolio of buildings/plants/housing in the US is welcome to join. Cleveland-Cliffs. Among the inaugural partners in the Better Climate Challenge are vehicle makers and suppliers, including: Company. Commitment. GHG reduction. Energy Intensity reduction. Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems. Minimum 50%.

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Ford Begins EcoBoost Engine Production

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Ford Motor Company began production of its EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) at Cleveland Engine Plant No. Approximately 250 employees are returning to the plant to build the new engines. Cleveland Engine Plant No. Cleveland Engine Plant No. The EcoBoost begins production. Click to enlarge. liter V-8 family.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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As part of DOE’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, these projects will also help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products. Partners include Argonne National Laboratory, ChemStation, Chevron Phillips, and Texas A&M.

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Alcoa facility to cut in half energy used to recycle aluminum for forged wheels

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The casthouse takes chips and solids from an existing Alcoa wheel machining plant on the same campus in Barberton, as well as from Alcoa’s Cleveland forging plant, and recycles them into aluminum billets. It is now up and running at full capacity. The billets are then shipped to other wheel-processing facilities to forge into aluminum wheels.

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Aleris to invest $350M to upgrade Kentucky aluminum rolling mill for anticipated growth in automotive demand

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Globally, Aleris produces a range of aluminum products for the automotive industry, including outer and inner body panels; structural parts; extrusions / profiles; and finished mechanical parts. For inner panels and structural parts, Aleris developed different Ecolite grades with different strength levels.

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