To help meet growing demand for fuel-efficient transmissions, ZF Friedrichshafen AG announced last month a $215 million expansion of the company's plant here. ZF plans to boost production of eight- and nine-speed automatic transmissions ...
Like many businesses that make products using virgin plastic, Eugene-based PakTech is facing an identity crisis. The national marketplace, responding to a more environmentally conscious consumer base, is shifting slowly toward recycled ...
Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) South American debut took place in the VICUNHA showroom in São Paulo. A separate BCI corner was installed as a platform for documentaries and presentations, in order to introduce BCI to major South ...
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True to its Pacific Northwest heritage, the inspiration for one of three new deliveries in Cutter & Buck’s ANNIKA Collection for Spring 2014 is the stately Paramount Theatre, which opened to great enthusiasm 85 years ago in downtown ...
After chatting with some colleagues or reading industry a good business to start in your industry, you may have come to the conclusion that from a CNC machine shop is a good deal to consider. As easy as it sounds, there are definitely ...
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Holden’s German sister brand Opel is exiting the Australian market after less than a year, saying it couldn’t make a profitable business case going forward. Opel Australia confirmed the news to CarAdvice after a source ...
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Marl International has started a bilateral engineering partnership with California-based LED lighting manufacturer Bivar Inc. under which the two companies will combine design resources and share IP to bring innovative LED lighting and ...
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Luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz will unveil an exclusive vehicle of a different breed – the Silver Arrow of the Seas concept yacht – in Montenegro this weekend. The 14-metre (46-foot) luxury yacht – initially announced ...
Phronetic Technologies, a prenatal technology startup formed to commercialize wearable computing solutions, announced it is one step closer to bringing the first prenatal smart wearable to the market. The company has announced plans to ...
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The Jaguar F-Type has launched in Australia with a starting price of $138,645, gearing up to take on the best sports cars the market has to offer. At the local launch of the Jaguar F-Type in Sydney, the company’s Australian brand ...
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LED forecast plays down GaN-on-silicon impact 23 Jul 2013 Sapphire is set to remain the entrenched wafer technology for solid-state lighting, say analysts at Lux Research. Despite the transition of LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) ...
As LED lighting becomes an US$80 billion industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers (epi-wafers) LEDs are made from will grow to US$4 billion in 2020, according to Lux Research. The vast majority of these epi-wafers are gallium nitride ...
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Finance segments experienced some growth, driven by emerging markets, but the capital markets and commercial banking remained cautious, according to the latest study by the Financial Services Competence Center at Roland Berger Strategy ...
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The BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo has landed in Australia, expanding the German manufacturer’s popular premium mid-sized range with new a niche that blurs the line between sedan and wagon. BMW Australia’s 3 Series GT range ...
While the birth of Dalton, Georgia, as the capital of the carpet industry is primarily owed to a woman, today's carpet manufacturers are typically led by men. One Dalton company is bucking that trend. B Carpet has been granted official ...
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