Tecno, the historic brand founded in the 1950s by the Borsani brothers and led by Giuliano Mosconi since 2010, acquires a majority stake in Zanotta, one of Italian design’s most well-loved and important companies since the 1950s. ...
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The outline for China’s 13th five-year plan isn’t exactly summer beach reading: The 65,858-character document, which lays out in broad terms how China’s leaders want the country’s economy to develop between now and ...
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Crown Holdings announced that Gerard Gifford has been appointed as executive vice president and chief operating officer effective 01 April 2017. In this new role, Mr. Gifford will continue to report to Timothy J. Donahue, President and ...
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Ford Motor is launching a new project designed to help enhance air quality in London as the automaker accelerates its electrification plans with 13 new global electrified vehicles due for introduction in the next five years. The project, ...
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German automobile manufacturer Audi is set to further expand its business activities in the Chinese market. Together with its local partner FAW Group, the company has defined 21 key strategy fields with respective goals in a 10-year plan. ...
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Toyota said it will boost SUV production at an Indiana factory with a $600m investment, which could add 400 jobs. The investment is part of the company’s strategy of localisation to build vehicles where they are sold. It will be ...
China's manufacturing sector continued to slow in January 2017 because of a further improvement in the health of the sector. The Caixin General Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) edged down to 51.0 last month from December's ...
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Stora Enso is set to invest around €9m into its consumer board mills in Finland and Sweden, as part of its efforts to commercialise microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) in paperboard packaging. The firm will invest in consumer board ...
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Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled 70.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, posting an on-year decline of 1.5%, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device ...
Through his six-decade career, Han Meilin-who is well-known as the chief designer of Fuwa, the good-luck mascots for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008-has always turned to Chinese cultural traditions for inspiration. The 80-year-old began ...
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Remember the black MacBook that was on sale from 2006-2008? It was the first Mac I'd ever considered buying. It made the company look like a rebel at a time when Apple was anything but. (It was during the height of the "Apple white" design ...
David Grissam was worried he'd have to quit his job. Grissam had steadily been losing his hearing, which was a serious problem for the 911 dispatcher based in Norman, Oklahoma. It had gotten to the point where normal hearing aids didn't ...
Toyota Motor has developed new engines, transmissions and hybrid systems based on Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Toyota intends to deploy these new powertrain units in a rapidly ...
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GAC Motor has released the first concept car EnLight at the 14th China (Guangzhou) International Automobile Exhibition. EnLight is an unprecedented smart electric supercar that applies the latest cutting-edge technologies, most futuristic ...
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December 11th afternoon, Jia Yueting at the annual meeting of China's corporate leaders to respond to the recent outside world as the music price, supply chain, capital, automotive and many other aspects of the query. During the period, ...