The UK government has announced to add 100 plug-in electric cars and vans to its fleet. The latest addition is a part of the government's initiative to promote green transportation for which the government previously invested ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation are mobilized to remove 4,400 gallons of low-sulfur diesel from a creek that flows into the Tiekel River after an oil tanker truck slid off the ...
With the first delivery of three Shaanqi SX5600 6X6 large transport tractors equipped with Allison 4700 fully automatic transmissions, the Hunan HuaYuanTong Special Logistics Co.’s large transport fleet has improved its freight ...
Tags: Shaanqi SX5600 6X6, transport tractor, Auto
Though Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day are not traditional festivals in China, retailers based in the US are trying to transform Chinese to be their crazy shopper in the end of year. The WSJ reports that shopper from China will be ...
Tags: Black Friday, Christmas Day, onilne shopping
Outlast Technologies, a developer and producer of temperature regulating fabrics has launched a new fabric by blending PCM viscose fibres with down fibres to offer a solution for climate comfort in bedding and apparel products. Outlast ...
This was part of a Cartesian pick and place robot solution for handling packs of fresh food. Referred to by UPM as ‘SYSCON’ conveyors, the simplistic ‘groove’ design with side channels made from high molecular, ...
Tags: fresh food packs, Packaging, Conveyor
This was part of a Cartesian pick and place robot solution for handling packs of fresh food. Referred to by UPM as ‘SYSCON’ conveyors, the simplistic ‘groove’ design with side channels made from high molecular, ...
Tags: fresh food packs, Packaging, Conveyor
The Canadian Trucking Alliance asked politicians on Parliament Hill, who are looking into the safe transportation of goods by road, to consider a universal electronic logging device (ELD) mandate among other things. Incidents involving ...
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Lone Star Transportation has announced its merger with Texas based open-deck transportation carrier company, Daseke. Lone Star specialises in transporting heavy shipments and is also known for transporting wind turbine components in North ...
Tags: Daseke, Acquisition, Accessories
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, has announced that it is about to invest more than $70 million in the construction of a pulverized coal injection (PCI) system at its blast furnace No. 9, ...
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Volvo Trucks is now launching I-Shift Dual Clutch, the first transmission on the market with a dual clutch system for heavy vehicles. Thanks to power-shift gear changes without any interruption in power delivery, torque is maintained and ...
Tags: Volvo Truck, Gearbox, Heavy Vehicles
Cotton farmers in Swaziland, located in the Southern part of the African continent, have been paid E9 million for their harvest, which is more than the expected amount, as they still continue to prepare their harvest for collection, ...
Tags: Cotton Farmers, Harvest, Textile
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India’s biggest private sector company, is implementing a project to source 1.5 MMTPA of ethane from US to feed its crackers in India. RIL has executed storage and capacity agreements for liquefaction ...
Tags: RIL, 1.5 MMTPA of Ethane, Textile
DB Schenker has opened its largest Australian supply chain and warehouse facility at the Redbank Motorway Estate in Ipswich, Queensland, which it says has created 70 new jobs. The German company will spend over $40 million over the next ...
Tags: DB Schenker, Redbank, Service
Beyond all of the hype and tumult, market drivers and technological developments are converging to ensure a bright future for silicon photonics, according to the ‘Silicon Photonics 2014’ report from Yole Développement. ...
Tags: Silicon Photonics