Germany — A British soldier driving a military utility vehicle fatally struck a German motorcyclist on a highway between U.S The crash occurred near the town of Gebenbach at 11:50 a.m when the unidentified 22-year-old soldier failed to yield to a 17-year-old girl riding a motorcycle in the opposite direction chief inspector for Sulzbach-Rosenberg Police Inspection The vehicle was turning left from highway B14 onto highway B299 toward Grafenwoehr The stretch of highway is located between the Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas The road was closed for more than three hours due to the crash An investigation is being conducted by the affected partner nations training command spokeswoman Lacey Justinger said Friday in an email The command offered condolences to the girl’s family The crash is being investigated on the civilian side by the Amberg public prosecutor’s office Stars and Stripes reporter Alexander Riedel contributed to this report Please log in with any of the following accounts: ASICentral Don't have an account? Sign Up Enter your email address and we'll send you directions to change your password Enter your email address and we'll send you your username The Germany-headquartered firm is one of Europe’s biggest suppliers one of Europe’s biggest promotional products suppliers has opened a new logistics and production center located in the Sulzbach-Rosenberg municipality in the southern German region of Bavaria features an expanded production area that executives believe will help support the company’s growth Elasto leaders said the facility totals 5,500 square meters – nearly 60,000 square feet Marcus Sperber (CEO elasto) and Steven Baumgärtner (CEO Cybergroup International) at the grand opening of the production center “We are very proud that after a construction period of only 17 months and an investment volume of more than 15 million euros we can now open the new logistics and production center,” said Marcus Sperber He added that the facility helps secure a strong domestic production presence for the firm the supplier hosted a special ceremony to mark the opening of the production center such as Sulzbach-Rosenberg Mayor Michael Göth and members of the Bundestag Elasto GmbH treated guests to tours of the facility and served up an array of regional dishes and drinks Entertainment included musical act Aeroplane the guests collected money for an ‘inauguration tree’ to symbolically hand it over to the management The tree is now to be planted on the elasto company site and given a place of honor.” Subscribe to ASI's industry-leading newsletters.All the award-winning content from ASICentral and Print & Promo Marketing Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter You have been successfully added to our mailing list keeping you up-to-date with our latest news in Fürth and Sulzbach-Rosenberg to the ammunition and pyrotechnics manufacturer RWS GmbH.  Following the notarization of the transaction on December 12 the parties now intend to complete the sale at the beginning of the new year Mayer Brown has represented Albermarle for many years on transactions as well as general business advice.   Marco Wilhelm (Partner Corporate & Securities and Head of the German Restructuring Practice) and Tina Hoffmann (Counsel Corporate & Securities) and Elmar Günther (Counsel Albemarle Corporation was represented by Dr Nicolas Rößler (VP of Law EMEA and Country Manager Germany) This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The Robot Report By | August 25 Stäubli Group acquired a 70 percent stake in WFT GmbH & Co WFT has been a specialist in the construction of special purpose machines and mobile platforms for two decades This acquisition allows the company’s to join forces on autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) and automation add-ons All employees of the acquired business will join the Stäubli Robotics Division while the factory in Sulzbach- Rosenberg will become part of the new company’s global production network The new company will operate under the name Stäubli WFT GmbH Following the recent acquiring of RS Roman Seliger this new integration of WFT is also perfectly in line with the Group’s strategy of combining organic growth with targeted acquisitions to offer its clients innovative products and technologies [Related: July 2018 Robotics & Intelligent Systems Investments] “Stäubli and WFT share a common belief to provide high- tech automation solutions of top quality to our customers by fully focusing on them and their specific needs,” says Rolf Strebel “Our clients will profit from this step as our products complement each other We warmly welcome WFT and its employees in the Stäubli Group and look forward to further expanding our business together.” Both parties have agreed to keep the transaction price confidential “Our customers will benefit from our combined expertise and new applications Stäubli Robotics delivers distinct technical advantages,” adds Gerald Vogt “We are looking forward joining Stäubli we will further develop our high-quality products and offer advanced technological solutions for our clients,” states Franz Wittich who founded WFT and has been the Managing Director in the past and will continue to hold this position at the new Stäubli unit in Sulzbach-Rosenberg Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media Privacy Policy | Advertising | About Us Learn how to describe the purpose of the image (opens in a new tab) Leave empty if the image is purely decorative Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental Energy and Safety Technology UMSICHT have now succeeded in considerably improving the efficiency of biogas plants The biobattery process developed by them not only supplies electricity and heat but also high quality products such as gas as an admixture for fuels or as a fertilizer If further processed they even provide basic substances for the chemical industries Researchers are demonstrating that this also works in practice at a pilot plant that utilizes roughly 30 kg of fermentation residues every hour The raw materials first pass through a sluice without oxygen into a continuously rotating screw There the material is heated up and broken down into biochar and volatile vapours The vapours are reheated and then cooled down again Researchers separate the high quality oil to reuse it The resulting gas is purified and collected gaseous and solid products can be reutilized in various ways The oil can either be processed into marine and aviation fuel or used in a combined heat and power plant The separated process water contains numerous short-chain biodegradable carbon compounds It can be fed back into the biogas plant to increase the methane yield The biochar is ideal as a soil conditioner are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system Copyright © 2025 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Hunting for a restaurant when your belly is rumbling is generally not conducive to success but my fortunate find of Pizzeria Antonio in Sulzbach-Rosenberg It appears to be an apartment building nestled into the back of a soccer venue conceals a treasure trove of Bavarian goodness The cozy atmosphere made me feel as if I had stumbled into a German household that just happened to be serving pizza But after the initial surprise of my request of a table for one Unlike the case with most restaurants in Europe I did not have to jump around and wave my hands in the air to get the waiter’s attention I went with something that I knew Germany does not mess up: beer The delicious Pils from local brewery Sperber Brau proved my beverage intuition correct Although the menu was replete with dishes ranging from pasta to calamari I would have been remiss if I’d gone to a pizzeria and didn’t order pizza I needed to get a baseline and then progress to a specialty pizza to give an accurate assessment This led to an interesting encounter with the waitress after the language barrier left her wondering whether that silly American had really just ordered two 12-inch pizzas for himself After an English-speaking waitress clarified that I did in fact want two whole pizzas my original server brought out a Margherita pizza salami and pepperoni with an egg cooked on the middle This is not the first time I have been fooled by what the Germans call a Margherita pizza which in their interpretation is just a normal cheese pizza it was adequate but lacked a little in the sauce department I like my eggs scrambled with a side of bacon or oozing out of my burger; I was unsure how I’d react to one on my pizza it added a pleasant element to an already delicious ensemble I decided to round out my date with myself by ordering dessert which resembled tiramisu but was served with a chocolate drizzle and apple slices because I was figuring it would be in the 40 euro range the tab for this hunger-busting bounty was only 24 euros Pizzeria Antonio serves up some of the best pies in Bavaria Factor in the reasonable prices and the friendly and helpful waitstaff Just be sure to have cash handy for the bill Bioenergy will play a major role in the energy transition as we head towards a CO2-neutral energy system contributing up to 14% of the EU energy mix and up to 10% of energy demand in transport in 2020 The new policy framework for renewables accelerates the uptake of renewables in the heating/cooling and transport sectors and strengthens the sustainability of bioenergy and promotes innovative technologies it is essential to diversify the technology portfolio and feedstock basis to allow competitive production of advanced biofuels for use in transport Demonstrating advanced biofuel technologies at large industrial scale reduces the technological risks and paves the way for subsequent first-of-a-kind industrial projects Significant R&D and pilot activities have been going on for the past decade in EU Member States to enlarge the feedstock basis and to develop processing technologies able to deal with a wider feedstock basis enhance feedstock conversion invaluable energy and co-products composting and paper residues are relevant examples of residue streams available for innovative applications For the conversion of such feedstocks, Fraunhofer UMSICHT developed and realised Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR®) technology Starting from a lab-scale TCR®2 unit (processing 2 kg per hour) to a TCR®30 plant the TCR® technology was then scaled-up to a 300 kg per hour plant for the conversion of sewage sludge at an industrial rate financially supported by the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs First commissioning and test runs with sewage sludge at the premises of Fraunhofer UMSICHT showed that the scale-up of the TCR®-technology from lab-scale to demo scale plant was successful more than 70 different feedstocks have been initially tested at the lab unit The motivation for the scale-up of the TCR® technology is the supply of green energy and green fuels from biogenic residues A maximum CO2-emissions reduction is a major goal for the utilization of such residues The very positive results and lessons learned from the experiments at lab scale and pilot scale gave the basis for the further scale-up to industrial levels which is the primary aim of the ToSynFuel project It was of great interest to transfer and demonstrate the high quality of the products (bio-oil syngas and char) from the small-scale application to a 300 kg per hour plant The pilot-plant was designed for a throughput of 300 kg feedstock with the use-case of dried sewage sludge from wastewater treatment facilities The TCR® is an intermediate pyrolysis reactor coupled to a post-reformer The reactor is heated externally by electrical heating bands or a flue gas heating system The resulting intermediates are conveyed into a reformer stage vapour and gases take place (see the scheme in the figure) This results in an upgrading of all product streams Due to the catalytic behaviour of the char reforming can be performed at temperatures below 700 °C To be mentioned is the high heating value of around 34 MJ per kg of the produced bio-oil This is a typical value for oil from this process (the feedstock but it is a very high heating value compared to other pyrolysis oils from such feedstock the total acid number (TAN) for the bio-oil is very low This makes even the direct use in stationary combustion engines possible The oxygen content is very low and far beyond the range of comparable technologies for residue conversion the bio-oil is a thermo-stable and storable fluid with similar properties to crude oil The syngas has a very high hydrogen content and the heating value is around 13-18 MJ per cubic metre The third product – the char or carbonisate – is an anthracite-like product with very low hydrogen and oxygen content which results in very high stability and long-lasting soil applications are possible The ongoing step of development is part of the Horizon 2020 project ToSynFuel The operational capacity is designed for 500 kg per hour of sewage sludge at a water content of 5-15% The unit is heated by flue gas from a gas combustion system The main purpose of this unit is the long-term operation of a pre-commercial demonstrator This is the actual step of development before the technology is reaching fully commercial scale This unit will be commissioned and operated from 2020 for around 5,000 hours of operation and for the production of more than 200,000 litres of biocrude oil The development process of this novel technology has shown a high potential in the utilization of biomass and residues With the aim of 3,000 to 30,000 tons per year of feedstock capacity a decentralised application for sustainable energy has been developed The intermediate bioenergy carriers address application in existing infrastructure and consequently reduce specific costs TCR® will be combined with pressure swing adsorption (PSA) and hydro-deoxygenation (HDO) technologies in an integrated plant TCR® bio-oil can be successfully hydrodeoxygenated at elevated pressure using hydrogen and a specific catalyst thus completely removing the impurities like oxygen compounds from the TCR® liquids to form hydrocarbons which can be distilled to give diesel and gasoline equivalents as sustainable synthetic fuels for transport The HDO unit will be designed by the project partner VTS and will be the part of the plant where the bio-oil is upgraded The hydrogen for refining will be separated from syngas using a decentralised PSA technology designed by project partner Hygear The surplus of the produced hydrogen should be available to create a new value chain The development of the TCR®500 pre-commercial scale plant is the basis for the commercialization and market-roll-out of the technology The first demonstration site visit of the working plant is expected to be organized for interested stakeholders and potential early adopters of the technology in a year Profiles in OAG January and April 2019 issues and website in this browser for the next time I comment Open Access Government produces compelling and informative news and academic research articles for the public and private sector looking at health As a Crossref Sponsored Member we are able to connect your content with a global network of online scholarly research currently over 20,000 other organizational members from 160 countries Crossref drive metadata exchange and support nearly 2 billion monthly API queries facilitating global research communication Stahlgruber – a German distributor of spare parts tools and accessories to the European auto repair industry – has expanded its European logistics centre in Sulzbach-Rosenberg with the help of automated materials handling solutions specialist TGW Logistics the expansion includes a 23,000-square-metre warehouse connected to the existing facility by a 60-metre bridge including a pallet conveyor TGW was responsible for the design and installation of the pallet conveyor and storage and retrieval equipment in the receiving area as well as for the new automatic mini-load warehouse and the entire conveyor system for totes TGW also contributed to the design of the ergonomic workstations for receiving picking and shipping areas in order to provide optimal conditions for the employees The logistics centre now holds over 155,000 SKUs with up to 100,000 orders leaving each day in a two-shift operation that provides customers with fast TGW built a new receiving terminal that optimises the received goods’ travel through the logistics centre Modifications to Stahlgruber’s existing pallet handling system means suppliers now deliver all pallets pre-labelled with a barcode indicating the shipping unit In-bound pallet barcodes are automatically scanned and captured data sent to Stahlgruber’s proprietary warehouse management system items are routed either directly to the existing pallet warehouse over the bridge via conveyor; to eight picking stations for direct picking from pallet; or to 44 decanting workstations connected to the tote conveyor system for depalletising and distribution into reusable plastic storage totes A display at each decanting station informs the employees about the required number of items to put into a provided empty tote which is then transported to the automatic mini-load storage warehouse The new 26-metre-high automatic mini-load warehouse consists of two storage levels with nine aisles each and two separate storage and retrieval levels serviced by TGW Mustang storage and retrieval machines Twister load handling devices transport the goods to and from 165,800 storage locations at rates of up to 118 movements per hour TGW’s tote conveying system is four kilometres long and stretches over several levels connecting various warehouse areas in the new building It is supported by TGW KingDrive® and storage and retrieval machine technology to increase the efficiency and performance of small parts picking and delivery Stahlgruber associates at the eight ergonomic goods-to-person picking stations handle up to 210 totes per hour The same picking stations also pick from full pallet loads delivered directly from the receiving area via TGW pallet lifts and a double transfer car TGW also added a new shipping line to the shipping area and expanded the dispatch sorters The changes to the twenty-year-old conveyor system in the shipping area increased performance significantly and dramatically reduced the noise emissions “Work in this area was carried out at weekends to avoid affecting the facility’s performance during the reconstruction phase,” says TGW project manager Josef Eibel “The coordination was challenging at times but the team worked together perfectly and the shipping area’s performance was doubled The new system provides Stahlgruber with a supply chain that provides operational efficiencies as well as enhancing its high levels of customer service.” Tweet Logistics Business © 2025 All Rights Reserved. | Privacy | Terms | Site Map Subscribe to 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Several of the injured soldiers were later released from the hospital while others remained under observation A convoy of seven armored vehicles was going from Shipton Kaserne to Grafenwoehr Training Area when a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle collided with a Stryker The MRAP was missing a wheel following the crash and the Stryker also showed significant damage A civilian semitruck also was involved in the accident German police cited "traffic-related braking" as the probable reason for the rear-end collision Both military vehicles involved in the crash belong to the 5th Battalion There were no munitions on board the vehicles involved in the crash Uninjured troops in the convoy secured the duty weapons at the scene The collision closed parts of the busy national autobahn for several hours Monday afternoon Stars and Stripes reporter Michael Slavin contributed to this report.