Airports are benefitting from the sustainable growth in the aerospace industry. They are increasingly developing into retail centers and will become even more closely integrated into urban areas in the future. At the same time, capacity ...
Tags: Airports, Transportation
Sunday Sept. 29 2013, is a new day for China as it marks the official launch of the much anticipated Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Sunday is also International Coffee Day. Just as UK coffee houses in an earlier age were the places where people ...
Tags: Free Trade, Coffee
The Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia (TFIA) has called on industry stakeholders to have a debate about the future of the TCF industry. This call follows a submission to the new Abbott Government setting out priority ...
Tags: Future of Industry, Textile
Total intends to invest €160 million before 2016 to adapt its petrochemical platform in Carling, in the Lorraine region of eastern France, and to restore its competitiveness. Total plans indeed to develop new activities on the ...
Tags: Petrochemical Platform, Textile
Over the past five years, the Glass Product Manufacturing industry has declined as both consumers and businesses turn away from the use of domestic glass. Substitute goods, such as plastics and metals, have become increasingly popular, and ...
Tags: Glass, Construction
Recently, a signing ceremony was held in Shanghai for delivery of the equipment for CAL ( Continuous Annealing Line ) for 2030 Cold Rolling Mill under Zhanjiang Iron & Steel. Mr Zhao Zhou Li, Deputy General Manager of Zhanjiang Iron and ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, Construction
Mercedes-Benz has used the Open Championship at Muirfield in the UK to unveil its take on the humble golf buggy. Dubbed the Mercedes-Benz Vision Golf Cart, the design study is the result of an international competition that saw people ...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, Golf Cart
The 2013 DHL Export Barometer reveals the continuing hurdles of a strong Australian dollar and a plunging business outlook from the mining sector have impacted exporters’ profitability outlook but not their confidence. Exporter ...
Tags: Australian, Dollar, Service
Editor’s Note: The following column by Reed Langton, senior application engineer, Bastian Solutions, is part of Modern’s Other Voices column. The series features ideas, opinions and insights from end users, analysts, systems ...
Tags: Automation, Machinery
The three largest valve companies (Pentair, Emerson and Flowserve) have captured 10 percent of the world industrial valve market but have only a 5.2 percent share of the Asian market. This is the conclusion reached in Industrial Valves: ...
Tags: Valve, Asian Valve Market
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q2 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the first quarter of 2013 European Union (EU) steel exports increased by four percent ...
Tags: EUROFER, Steel Exports
A new residential building is rising at the upper end of New York's skyline. Located on the corner of 56th Park Avenues, this slender building, which almost looks fragile, will be 420 meters high (approx. 1,377 feet). This is 3 meters ...
According to the 2012 review of the steel market published by the European Steel Association (EUROFER), crude steel production in the European Union amounted to 168 million mt in the given year, down five percent compared to 2011. Similar ...
Tags: Steel Exports, Mineral
The proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union and India, negotiations for which are currently taking place, would boost textiles and garment trade between the two. Speaking to fibre2fashion, head of International ...
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and the United College Employees of the Fashion Institute of Technology (UCE-FIT), along with four other groups, have underwritten an international competition to create the design for a permanent ...
Tags: Fashion Institute, Garment Industry, Garment