Made in America: Recycling industry accounted for nearly 800,000 jobs, $36 billion in wages

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RECYCLING INDUSTRY ACCOUNTED FOR NEARLY 800,000 JOBS, $36 BILLION IN WAGES
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in a new report analyzing the economic benefits of the recycling industry, says America’s recycling and reuse activities accounted for 757,000 jobs, produced $36.6 billion in wages and generated $6.7 billion in tax revenues in 2007, based on the most recent census data.

This equates to 1.57 jobs for every 1,000 tons of materials recycled. The national recycling rate has more than quadrupled from 7% to 34% since 1976, and the slogan “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” has become a well-used phrase in American life. Recycling bins are now common in homes, schools and work places; restaurants are composting their food waste and businesses are working with communities to offer consumers reuse and recycling opportunities.

The national Recycling Economic Information (REI) Study analyzes the numbers of jobs, wages and tax revenues attributed to recycling.

DASSAULT FALCON DEDICATES NEW LUXURY JET MAINTENANCE FACILITY IN FRANCE, GROWS GLOBAL SUPPORT NETWORK
Dassault Falcon Service (DFS), a subsidiary of Dassault Aviation, recently opened its new maintenance facility in Bordeaux-Mérignac (France) intended to meet the increase in repair and overhaul services for the Falcon 7X and other new Falcon jet models.

Located adjacent to the Dassault Aviation assembly plant, the new complex will add 49,000 square meters of additional Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO) space, including a 7,200 square-meter hangar, and will be capable of accommodating up to six Falcon 7X, 8X or 5X aircraft at a time. It will complement DFS’s existing installations which have been located at Le Bourget airport near Paris since 1967.

Dassault officials said the global maintenance network for the Falcon branded line of luxury jets, which includes the company’s maintenance facility at the Little Rock National Airport, is one of the largest and best-equipped in business aviation. A year ago, the French aviation giant dedicated a new 250,000 square foot facility, called Hanger 14, where Little Rock employees of the Paris-based jet maker now do completion work on Dassault’s latest two luxury jets – the Falcon 8X ultra long range trijet and the Falcon 5X very large body twin.

SAMSUNG LAUNCHES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SOLUTIONS ACROSS GLOBAL MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Korean Industrial and telecom giant Samsung announced on Friday (Nov. 18) the launch of Nexplant, an artificial intelligence (AI) based smart factory solution that the company plans to use in its manufacturing processes across the globe.

According to Samsung, Nexplant AI solution utilizes the company’s experience and expertise at the plants of Samsung’s affiliated companies, including Samsung Electronics, and the manufacturing sites of many other companies based in Korea. The most distinctive feature of the Nexplant solution is that it collects and analyzes sensor data from manufacturing equipment through IoT (internet of things) by applying artificial intelligence to the manufacturing process, promptly detects and controls the anomalies, thereby maximizes production efficiency.

The AI solution also features Brightics, the big data analytics platform developed by Samsung SDS, which dramatically reduces the time it takes to identify and solve problems arising from manufacturing processes from up to 12 hours to less than 10 minutes.

The application of the recently launched Nexplant helps automatically detect the key factors that induced equipment faults and defects in products through machine learning-based analytics, ultimately significantly reducing the time to resolve any problems.