Alfred music moves towards green

Alfred Music Publishing, an educational music print publisher, has launched its “Alfred Cares” initiative, aimed at reducing the company’s carbon footprint. The program centers on decreasing the company’s natural resource consumption, recycling waste and reusing materials in the production processes.

Airbus starts building XWB

European planemaker Airbus on Tuesday began building the first parts of its new A350 XWB, a wide-bodied airliner designed to compete with US rival Boeing's much anticipated B787 Dreamliner.

B9 Coal propose new carbon capture

A new entrant has applied to the government competition to fund a carbon capture and storage plant, relying on a different form of the technology from other applicants.B9 Coal is proposing to build a 500MW plant at the Rio Tinto Alcan plant at Lynemouth, in Northumberland, where the carbon dioxide emissions from coal combustion would be captured and then stored underground.