North Carolina is famous for its high-tech Research Triangle, but lately it seems that state government IT projects are bound for IT's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. As you may remember from an earlier Risk Factor story on state ...
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Navistar continues to be dogged by warranty issues related to its previous emissions strategy, and today announced a $154-million loss for the fourth quarter. Still, it was a marked improvement from the Q4 loss of $2.8 billion the company ...
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In an earnings call today, ccTroy Clarke said the company’s Q4 loss was in part due to “unanticipated pre-existing warranty adjustments” for its EGR-only engines, but that the company is halfway through the maximum ...
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Alstom T&D India, globally known as Alstom Grid, recently flagged off its 100th 765kV transformer. Concurrently, it also rolled out India's largest 765kV 275 MVA, single-phase transformer. Alstom has been producing 765kV transformers at its ...
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Amtech Systems, Inc. a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and sapphire and silicon wafers, reported results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ...
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For fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (to end-September), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has reported revenue of $43.1m, down ...
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The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) reported today that economic activity in the manufacturing sector was strong for the sixth straight month. The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure manufacturing activity, headed up 0.9 ...
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Homag Group has reported a 4.4 % reduction in order intake to €142.1m in the third quarter of 2013 from €148.6m in the previous quarter. However, new orders were 13.8 % higher than the same stretch last year. CEO Dr. Markus Flik ...
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Oceanteam Shipping ASA - CSV Southern Ocean bareboat extended until end of 2018 Friday, Nov 22, 2013 Oceanteam Shipping ASA (OTS) is pleased to confirm the extension of tha bareboat charter with Fugro TS Marine Australia for the CSV ...
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According to America Commercial Trucking (ACT) Research, the fall order season for trailers kicked off with a strong 43% month-over-month net order gain. Total net orders were 24,900 units. The year-over-year comparison was less robust, but ...
The fall order season for trailers saw a 43 percent month over month net order gain, for a total net order of 24,900 units. That's a six percent increase since last year, according to a report published by Americas Commercial ...
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Demand for trailers surged 43% in October, kicking off the fall order season in a big way, according to the latest data from ACT Research. Its State of the Industry: US Trailers report indicated 24,900 trailers were ordered in October. ...
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The world's largest aerospace company and aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, has used open-source application development software firm WSO2's service-oriented architecture (SOA) to build a cloud-based digital aviation platform. The ...
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Non-manufacturing activity continued to show solid growth in October, according to the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) Non-Manufacturing Report on Business. The ISM's index to measure growth—the NMI—inched up 1.0 ...
October was a good month for new heavy-duty truck orders—a welcome respite from the previous couple of months. The report comes from the Columbus-based ACT Research, and ACT Senior Partner and General Manager Ken W.Vieth says that ...
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