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Overview
It is widely recognized in many industries that sustainability is a key driver of innovation. Numerous companies, especially large ones that made sustainability as a goal, are achieving clearly more competitive advantage. The metal finishing industry, however, is clearly behind others in response to the challenging needs for sustainable development.
This research project aims to:
Create a metal-finishing-specific sustainability metrics system, which will contain sets of indicators for measuring economic, environmental and social sustainability,
Develop a general and effective method for systematically sustainability assessment of any metal finishing facility that could have multiple production lines, and for estimating the capacities of technologies for sustainability performance improvement,
NBAF had been a personal passion for the retiring U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts
The facility will host a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory, one of only two in North America
The $1.25 billion National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, intended to research some of the world s most dangerous animal and plant-based diseases, won t complete construction as planned this month, project officials announced Tuesday.
Instead, the federal project, still under construction on the north end of Kansas State University s Manhattan campus, is now scheduled for substantial completion in October 2021.
Delays have besieged completion of the facility, originally a project through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security but later transferred to management by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Complete transfer of facility responsibility to the USDA likewise won t come until October.