Waste recycling – an investment in the future

Recycling domestic waste is increasingly important for the future of Uzbek industry: the country produces more than 13 tonnes of domestic dry waste every single day – and just 14 per cent of this is currently recycled. Experts estimate that €22 million can be generated simply by extracting secondary raw materials and recycling rare earth metals. Recycling plastic and waste paper would be even more lucrative. Continue reading

Uzbekistan’s Textile Industry and German Technology

The textile and clothing sector will be remaining one of Uzbekistan’s most important industries for foreign investment and cooperation in future. State-based modernisation programmes are supporting the growth in the domestic textile industry. The search for new technologies has led Schachzoda Egamberdiewa, the representative of the respective authority in Uzbekistan, to Germany. Continue reading

Uzbekistan – Digital Society Awakens

There is a new driving force behind Uzbekistan’s digital economy. Brand.uz, a young, up and coming IT company, has followed the international market’s lead and founded a start-up accelerator to mentor young tech talent. The next Twitter or Instagram might well emerge from Central Asia in the not too distant future if Yelena Seleznyova, MP alumna and Managing Director of the StartupFactory, has anything to do with it. Continue reading

Energy efficiency in Hamburg

Companies are able to significantly reduce their costs with intelligent energy-saving measures. This not only helps secure their competitiveness, but also already prepares them for medium-term changes in the energy market, such as price increases due to the growing scarcity of resources or energy taxes, and also actively contributes to climate change mitigation. Continue reading

Full Steam Ahead for Innovation

The company Fliegl built one of the most modern production plants for agricul-tural machinery in Mühldorf on the river Inn in Upper Bavaria. Josef Fliegel Senior continuously carries out research and develops new products; in 2014, he was awarded a silver medal by the German Agricultural Society (DLG e.V.). Continue reading