Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that state’s three new Advanced Manufacturing Centers at community colleges across Connecticut will receive $7,325,000 in funding for facility and equipment upgrades that will ...
The Senate is expected to vote next week on an immigration bill, and it is likely to pass after one last fight to give U.S. workers hiring preference over foreigners with H-1B visas. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Sherrod Brown ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The PPG Industries Foundation has donated $10,000 to the Palmdale School District in California for the Palmdale Aerospace Academy charter school. Here, Deb Noe, HR manager at PPG Industries' (NYSE:PPG) aerospace manufacturing facility in ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged more than $50 million to support the workers, businesses and regions affected by Ford Australia's decision to close its Victorian manufacturing plants in October 2016. Ford Australia president and ...
Tags: Ford, Auto, Transportation
Business cash flow has slowed this year, placing further strain on a range of industries already experiencing low confidence because of weak trading activity and high operating costs. Businesses are waiting nearly eight weeks to be paid ...
Tags: Service
Intermec has announced the opening of its new Cedar Rapids Technology Center, a $12.5 million two-story, 81,000 square-foot facility. The building, located at 601 Third St. SE in downtown Cedar Rapids, replaces the company’s ...
The Fiat Chrysler Group has made history by appointing Veronica Johns as its new Australian CEO, as part of several management changes. When Johns assumes the role of Fiat Chrysler Group Australia CEO on 1st May 2013, she will become the ...
The former boss of Ford’s global operations says the death of the Australian automotive manufacturing industry appears “inevitable”. Ex-Ford Motor Company CEO and now BHP Billiton chairman Jac Nasser says a combination ...
Tags: Automotive Industry, Ford CEO
CISMA2013 will be hosted by China Sewing Machinery Association at SNIEC from September 25 to 28. As to the exhibition position, some adjustment is made this year: W1-W5 will be filled with Sewing Machines; cutters and CAD/CAM will be placed ...
Saudi Arabian customs officials have foiled an attempt to smuggle 3.255 million kg (equivalent to 27,300 barrels) of refined oil products out of the eastern port of Dammam, capital of the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province, the official ...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Foils, Oil Products
Employee safety and comfort are paramount for one of the nation’s largest automobile parts recycling companies – as is the need to keep a lid on costs. That’s why they recently used a Zoneworks® insulated curtain wall ...
Tags: automobile parts recycling, automobile parts, automobile
The COSATU-affiliated Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) held its Annual National Bargaining Conference from 28th February to 3rd March 2013, in Cape Town. The Conference was attended by 200 delegates ...
Tags: SACTW Conference, Worker Living Wage, Clothing, Textile
The 10th Dhaka Textile and Garment Machinery Exhibition (DTG 2013) was inaugurated on January 31, 2013 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center with 850 exhibitors amid much cultural fanfare and traditional Bangla drum beats in Dhaka. ...
Tags: Textile, Garment Machinery, textile industry, clothing industry
Woodside Petroleum's Browse LNG project could end up being developed in a lower-cost environment after 2014, now that the joint venture partners are aligned for the first time, analysts at the Hong Kong office of Bernstein Research said in ...
Tags: Woodside Petroleum, Browse LNG project, commercial development
The head of the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), Tony Weber, has criticised the general media for its reporting on the local industry, claiming that local manufacturing is competitive by today’s standards. ...
Tags: Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, overall new-car sales