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27 Jan 2020

Meet the Turquoise team: Andrew Janis Folkmanis

Business What has been the most significant technological development of recent years? In use today, the iP...阅读更多

08 Oct 2019

Case Study: Accelerating in Acquisitions

ZTC is a leading Chinese manufacturer of seats for passenger and commercial vehicles, with customers includ...阅读更多

20 Aug 2019

Turquoise International appointed to manage new fund

As a specialist merchant bank focusing on energy, environment and efficiency, we are thrilled to be appoint...阅读更多

20 Aug 2019

Meeting the market’s need for sustainable manufacturing…

In our latest white paper, we spoke with the managing director of Alvant, John Bonas, to discuss how his bu...阅读更多

04 Aug 2019

Delivering a lasting advantage

There is increasing pressure on manufacturers, from both government policy and customer demand, to improve ...阅读更多

11 Jul 2019

Next generation medical technology M&A

Case study: Oval Medical Technologies Oval is a Cambridge-based developer of novel auto-injectors that allo...阅读更多

06 Mar 2019

LCIF Investee SME and Schottel Hydro merge plans

Low Carbon Innovation Fund portfolio company Sustainable Marine Energy merges with Schottel Hydro Sustainab...阅读更多

28 Feb 2019

EooooooW!

“Escape of Water” (EoW) is widely acknowledged to be a major problem for the insurance industry. Burst pipe...阅读更多

07 Nov 2018

Reasons why things are heating up for the smart home sector

We’ve invested in and supported smart home start-up geo since its inception six years ago. Over that period...阅读更多

05 Jul 2018

Tevva Motors: mass adoption of Zero Emission Trucks takes a step forward

Zero emission cars are now a familiar sight, but there are currently almost no zero emission trucks on the ...阅读更多

19 Jun 2018

Natural Resources Ltd – Plastic-free potential

In this whitepaper, we interview James Gardiner of Natural Resources Ltd (NRL). He discusses how new techno...阅读更多

19 Apr 2018

Fashionable Investing

The role that fashion plays amongst investors is often underestimated. One would be forgiven for thinking t...阅读更多

13 Mar 2018

Meet the Turquoise team: David Casale

Business What has been the most significant technological development of recent years? The most recent one....阅读更多

20 Dec 2017

Syrinix – A new way of looking at water

In this whitepaper, we interview Syrinix’s CEO, James Dunning. He outlines why access to water has turned i...阅读更多

04 Dec 2017

Dawn of the Abundant Free Energy System

There is no logical, technical, economic or political justification for operating the future energy industr...阅读更多

18 Oct 2017

Recycling in the Anthropocene Age

I think it’s fairly safe to say that technological advances on their own will not reduce per capita use of ...阅读更多

23 Aug 2017

Bactest – Why the happiness of bacteria matters

Have you ever wondered about how happy bacteria are? Probably not, but for some industries it’s a critical ...阅读更多

08 Aug 2017

Streaming 2.0

Spotify has just announced reaching a target of 60 million paying users and as a result is now getting read...阅读更多

19 Jul 2017

Meet the Turquoise team: Luke Taylor

Career Describe your career journey After Cambridge I joined Operis, spending close to three years there bu...阅读更多

28 Jun 2017

Avoiding value slippage

Co-authored by Sophie Maugan, Partner at Cleveland Scott York, and Ian Thomas, MD at Turquoise. What is IP?...阅读更多

19 Jun 2017

Meet the Turquoise team: Ian Thomas

Turquoise team members share their thoughts on business issues and give some career insights. Business What...阅读更多

07 Jun 2017

Gatwick gone bonkers

Gatwick has become the first UK airport to announce that it will be Carbon Neutral: http://www.mediacentre....阅读更多

28 Mar 2017

Meet the Turquoise team: Desmond Astley-Cooper

Turquoise team members share their thoughts on business issues and give some career insights.   Business Wh...阅读更多

14 Mar 2017

Fighting for all technology to be clean

On February 5th, I had the pleasure of presenting at TEDxOxford outlining my belief that there is no such t...阅读更多

08 Mar 2017

‘By means of industry … you will rise higher and higher’

(Robert Schumann) At the start of February, I received an invitation from a former colleague, now at the Eu...阅读更多

18 Jan 2017

A Breath of Fresh Air?

A recent study from Aarhus University in Denmark has shown that student performance can be improved by up t...阅读更多

12 Jan 2017

In Retail Energy – More meddling is needed!

The CEO’s of major British energy challengers have called for an end to ministerial meddling in the UK ener...阅读更多

11 Jan 2017

Trypanophobia Investin’!

Fear of needles (trypanophobia) is a surprisingly common thing. Approximately 20% of the general population...阅读更多

07 Sep 2016

V is for Venture, E is for Enterprise

The Financial Times recently ran a very interesting article (‘The great pensions tax squeeze’, September 2)...阅读更多

06 Sep 2016

Three reasons why Hinkley Point should be built

I work for Turquoise investing in and raising funds for Energy, Environment and Efficiency companies that i...阅读更多

19 Jul 2016

Não Joga Lixo!

The simple act of compelling larger retailers to charge 5p on plastic bags in England at the end of 2015 ha...阅读更多

24 May 2016

The law of unintended consequences

Churchill is quoted as once saying: “I am preparing my impromptu remarks”. It seems that decisions about lo...阅读更多

16 May 2016

We need a new energy Trilemma … like a hole in the head! (Part 2)

Having dispatched Trilemma1 to Room 101 let me now try and place a finger in the dyke of Trilemma2 recently...阅读更多

13 May 2016

Visitors from the East

Thanks to the good work of my colleague, David Wright, Mandarin-speaker and China expert, Turquoise recentl...阅读更多

23 Mar 2016

What next for the UK Solar Industry?

It’s very easy to get caught up in hyperbole in the period immediately following a subsidy cut announcement...阅读更多

15 Mar 2016

We need a new energy trilemma … like a hole in the head!

Ian Marchant, ex CEO of SSE and ex IE President, has suggested we need a second Trilemma (see below). Howev...阅读更多

08 Jan 2016

Floods, Insurance & Climate Change

It must have been incredibly dispiriting, and at times scary, to have spent the holidays in the north of th...阅读更多

07 Dec 2015

Footballers hauling dustbins… Now there’s an Idea!

My eye was recently caught by an interview given by David Palmer-Jones, chief executive of Suez UK, to Andr...阅读更多

23 Nov 2015

A Sparkling Occasion

Last Thursday saw the third hosting of the Turquoise wine tasting challenge, which afforded us the opportun...阅读更多

16 Nov 2015

Doing the Honourable Thing

Last week we were treated to a scoop from The Ecologist (no, not the Economist) which revealed a leaked let...阅读更多

19 Oct 2015

The Heat is On

Apart from being one of Gloria Gaynor’s better known hits, it also signifies that, as of today (Friday 15 O...阅读更多

05 Oct 2015

Volkswagen, Uber, cabbies and London air quality

London is currently in breach of EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the air, which is linked to a rang...阅读更多

28 Sep 2015

#YouStink

Please don’t think that this is a gratuitous attempt to insult the reader….it’s just the popular name of a ...阅读更多

21 Sep 2015

Divestment (Part 2)

The FT reported yesterday that ‘Funds worth $2.6tn pledge to dump coal’. So, where does the industry go fro...阅读更多

14 Sep 2015

Time is running out

Ok I’m going to start at the beginning, I joined Shell International in The Hague in 1985 as a young engine...阅读更多

07 Sep 2015

An Unintended Consequence of Right to Buy

Housing Associations, charities that provide social housing in the UK, have had a bumpy ride over the last ...阅读更多

17 Aug 2015

A need for nuance

Investors in the energy and environmental space know that, for better or worse, policy matters. Some exampl...阅读更多

27 Jul 2015

The Greening of Glastonbury

Music festivals have come a long way since the days of Woodstock and the Isle of Wight when, if they didn’t...阅读更多

20 Jul 2015

Global energy: The ice bucket challenge

The challenge being to look at the chart above. I am all for celebrating successes, of which I can think of...阅读更多

13 Jul 2015

China: A new frontier (for me at least)

Some of my colleagues have lived in China and one is fluent in Mandarin, but my recent 10 day trip to meet ...阅读更多

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