E-Commerce Logistics Challenges in Southeast Asia

With COVID-19 spawning a boom in e-commerce throughout Southeast Asia, delivery players in the region are grappling with ways to maintain and build on their success. To gain insights into developments in the region, Jasmine Joh from the financial services team at GLG Singapore recently spoke with Chang Wen Lai, co-founder and CEO of Ninja […]

Investment Opportunities in Municipal Water

The municipal water and wastewater industry is conservative and not easily open to technological innovation, but huge opportunities exist for companies and their investors, says Dr. Bertrand Dussert, a technology and business professional in the water and wastewater treatment industry and former Global Treatment Strategy Manager at Xylem, Inc. To learn more, Monica Dealy of […]

What’s Ahead for Solar Energy in Southeast Asia

The growth of solar electrical generation in the developed world — Europe, the U.S., Japan, and, to an extent, Australia — has been phenomenal. But in less-developed nations, and particularly Southeast Asia where electrical grids are not as mature and there is enormous unmet demand, solar growth potential is even greater. For many years, solar […]

The Economics Around Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Are Strong and Growing

The market around the recycling of lithium-ion batteries is huge and growing, mostly thanks to electric vehicles. Surely, a lot of other lithium-ion batteries get recycled, including from phones and power tools, but the majority comes from EVs. In 2019, it was estimated that the recycling market was worth $1.5 billion. The projected amount of […]

Inside Australian Waste Management

Three trends mark the current state of the Australian waste management industry: growing interest in waste-to-energy, the need to counter commoditization, and new ways of coping with the challenge of food and garden organics. Waste Management: Waste-to-Energy Waste-to-energy is prevalent in Western Europe due to the European Community’s ban on organic waste going into landfills […]

Industrial Automation: Where the Growth Is

If it seems that robots are taking over industrial production, it’s because they are. Annual installations of industrial robots more than tripled from 2010 through 2019, with more than 380,000 robots now in use in factories around the world. Leading in the implementation of robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers are Singapore, South Korea, and Japan, […]

The Electric Vehicles Race: Tesla vs. Legacy Car Companies

Tesla has been on a hot streak. Reacting to the company’s latest earnings, CEO Elon Musk said, “We’ve seen a real shift in customer perception of electric vehicles, and our demand is the best we’ve ever seen.” But with this acceptance of EVs comes increased competition. Almost every major automaker has announced its entry into […]

The Bioplastics Industry: Where It Is and Where It’s Going

Even though it is likely to remain a niche, the bioplastics industry should see significant growth over the next five years. That’s due largely to two reasons. The first is environmental. Bioplastics typically have two environmental benefits: a very low carbon footprint compared with traditional plastics, and most are biodegradable or compostable. Biodegradable/compostable plastics are […]

Inside the Texas Power Crisis

The recent cold-weather snap that paralyzed Texas focused nationwide attention on Texas Interconnection, the state’s electrical grid. The network supplies electricity to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90% of the state’s electric load. It is operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT. To understand what happened in Texas and […]

Rolls-Royce’s Aerospace Troubles Reveal a Weakening Business Model

Among the industries badly affected by the grounding of flights are the ones that manufacture the frames and engines of the airplanes themselves. Rolls-Royce, the more than 100-year-old firm with a market cap of $8 billion, has seen its civil aerospace business decline significantly in the past year. Recently, it announced its cash outflow in […]

Survey: How Is the Global Market Preparing for Hydrogen Deployment?

As the world transitions to cleaner energy, hydrogen is considered the next primary fuel of the twenty-first century. Hydrogen fuel cells produce energy, minimal heat, and water from natural gas reforming, electrolysis, solar-driven, and biological processes. It is a clean energy that can be transported, stored, and delivered for use in many applications. But how […]