Last Monday, the BMW Group plant in Swindon, Wiltshire celebrated the beginning of their Mini Clubman production. The German automaker invested £200 million sometime between 2005 and 2007 to link their pressing plants in Swindon, engine plants in Hams Hall near Birmingham and its assembly plant in Oxford.
The union of these BMW plants targets the production of 200,000 vehicles this year and 240,000 vehicles in the medium term. 220,000 MINI’s are also aimed to be delivered to customers all over the world.
The event was attended by the Mayor of Swindon and other prominent personalities from Swindon’s business community.
Klaus Hauser, Managing director of BMW Group Plant Swindon and the host of the event said, “With the launch of the MINI Clubman, the third MINI derivative, we are expecting new production and sales records for MINI this year which is great news for Swindon and the UK automotive industry. The new model is another milestone for the plant and we are confident that it will offer an exciting next chapter in the MINI success story. We look forward to our employees continuing to make a vital contribution to the development of a great British brand – the MINI.”
The celebration was also joined by 10 plant employees who are to receive their long service awards on the said event. Hauser considered the 325 years of the plant an achievement and having such hardworking employees, the plant sees a more productive future.
“This is a tremendous achievement and we are delighted they were able to join us. They have seen many changes over the years. The plant, in which they have spent so much of their lives, now looks forward to a robust and positive future.”
To break the 200,000 MINI’s produced in 2005 BMW invested £100 million to the Oxford plant, £60 million for MINI body pressings and sub-assembly technologies to the Swindon plant, £30 million for new and advanced petrol engines at the Hams Hall.
With the added investment at the Swindon Plant resulting to increased capacity and flexibility will make the plant accountable for 90 percent of the pressings and 80 percent of the body-shell sub-assembly work for the MINI. The plant now uses extensive modernization program and the most advanced technology in seam production.
The MINI Clubman production started after a year the MINI hatch was introduced to the market. The Clubman’s closest competitors are the Honda Fit (which can be equipped with a Honda car cover), VW rabbit and the Nissan Versa. BMW’s MINI series was launched in 2001 and now, almost one million MINI’s have been manufactured and sold. 75 percent of the production accounts for MINI’s exported to automotive markets all over the world.
Is there a way to remove the CO2 from the atmosphere? Can we collect it using extremely low-frequency waves to make an ionic charge and then capture it in cloud formations with huge man-made dirigibles? If so, what might we do with it all? I mean where can be put it? Can we compress it?
Turn it into rock and bury it somewhere? But how can you turn it into rock? Well you could super heat it by sending it in tubes into the Earth’s mantel and when you brought it back up it would be more like a diamond and could be sued for something useful such as road rock filler for runways, foundations of buildings or even modern freeways?
Can this really be done or is this just someone’s idea of a bad joke to save us all from climate change or global warming? Is it really doable? Can we clean the Earth’s atmosphere like an Orec Air Purifier or an Ionic Breeze?
Well it might possible my sending up pancake terminal gradient clouds and then giving them an ionic negative charge to collect all the positively charged particles in the air pollution. Of course this is not little operation and it will not be easy, but it is possible to collect the pollution on a massive scale. Next the biggest problem will be what on Earth or where on Earth to put it once you have collected it all? Consider all this in 2006.
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Article Source: ezinearticles.comSimilar to an ozone cleaner, an ionic air purifier also uses an electrical charge to alter oxygen atoms in the air. There is often confusion between ionic air cleaners and ozone air purifiers. The main advantage of the former is that an ionic air cleaner will not only clear your home of odors and mildew, but also purge your air of dust and pollen.
What are ion air cleaners, exactly, and how well do they work? The theory behind an ionic air purifier will take you back to your days in science class in high school. Most common household pollutants carry a positive charge. These are too light to settle on the ground or furniture, where they can be vacuumed or cleaned. They float about freely in the air that we breathe in our homes. What an ionic air cleaner does, is that it negatively charges the air particles in the room. Now, if you remember some high school science, you know that a positive charge and negative charge when brought close together will experience a magnetic attraction. And voila! As soon as the positively charged pollutant collides with the negatively charged anion, they bond together, becoming too heavy to remain airborne, and sink to the floor. Thus they are out of harm’s way and can no longer be inhaled. Regular vacuuming and dusting can get rid of these particles.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if properly used, these ionizers can lessen the amount of airborne dust in the room by over 50% and also diminish the airborne bacteria by 95%.
As compared to HEPA air filters, people who are concerned about noise pollution in their homes may prefer air ionizers as they are generally silent. HEPA air purifiers make more noise as they use a motorized fan to circulate the air to purify it. Ionic air purifiers, on the other hand, send out the ions or activated oxygen to purify the air, and hence are usually silent. Also, another advantage ionizers have over other purifiers is that its parts do not need regular replacement, as there are no physical filters. Even though most air ionizers don't have a motorized fan, the ionization creates a faint breeze that helps to distribute the ions throughout a room. Some are also outfitted with screens or prongs that catch the particles of dust as they fall to the ground.
Positive endorsements for the ionizer have come from many quarters. In an epidemiological study, it was found that repeated airborne infections of the bacteria acinetobacter in an ICU ward was totally wiped out with the installation of a negative air ionizer. Through the year long study, the infection rate fell to zero, disinfecting the air and thereby stopping the transmission of the infection.
Thus, keeping in mind your concern over noise, reliability and cost of purchase and maintenance, a low-cost ionic air purifier is a reasonably wise purchase.
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