Is your business seeking new market opportunities? Redundant material such as food waste, cardboard boxes, plastic waste, textile residues, sawdust, waste oils, manure, hay straw, sugar beet residue, spent grain waste from breweries are only a few examples of waste that could potentially open up fresh possibilities for your business.

EBRI’s Master Class Course provides exclusive content for entrepreneurs and business leaders covering the technical and commercial fundamentals of bioenergy. Companies looking to develop new products and services can benefit from attending this event, as can those who are simply looking for a better understanding of the bioenergy market.

Once again, All-Energy the UK’s largest renewable and low carbon energy exhibition and conference, plays home to a day-long conference track on sustainable and smart cities, and the steps being taken to decarbonise them. This track, taking place on 2 May is sponsored by Shepherd and Wedderburn All-Energy’s Headline Sponsor. The following day, there is a day-long Quick Fire Seminar Theatre programme dedicated exclusively to energy efficiency. There’s also a networking event especially for local government officials. Free registration for the exhibition, conference and Giant Networking Evening is online at www.all-energy.co.uk

Following the opening plenary session with the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon amongst the speakers, the thought-provoking Sustainable Cities session ‘Are we there yet? Green infrastructure and New World thinking’ session will be held from 11:00 until 12:30.

The finalists for the 2018 UK Roofing Awards have been announced. Beautiful structures, outstanding workmanship, superior problem solving, environmental qualities and contribution to the built environment have all been highlighted in the shortlist, released by NFRC (National Federation of Roofing Contractors) at this year’s ecobuild event.

The awards scheme, which is in its 12th consecutive year, is the most prestigious in the roofing sector and celebrates the very best in the industry across 14 categories.

Ecobuild show attendees also had the opportunity to cast their vote for the Industry Choice Award (sponsored by Radmat Building Products Ltd).

As a major player in the shredding technology industry, UNTHA is set to show IFAT trade visitors the solutions that can reliably and economically transform waste into valuable resources. The event will be held from May 14 to May 18, 2018 in Munich.

Ongoing engineering developments have been taking place behind the scenes at UNTHA’s Austrian headquarters, which means the IFAT stand 127/226 (hall B6) will play host to the latest generation XR series waste shredder, this May. Designed to process different materials such as waste wood, commercial waste, bulk refuse, industrial waste or pulper ropes, the latest iteration of this technology will perform even more successfully than its predecessors.