The realisation was as surprising as it was momentous. Toledo, long known as Glass City, needed glass, and it could no longer be manufactured locally quickly enough. So Toledo turned to China to make the 360 panels, weighing 589kg each, ...
The Ontario Ministry of Transportation is equipping its vehicles with radar, to help officers better enforce the province’s speed limiter legislation,. Officers will also be able to enforce moving violations committed by commercial ...
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Spanish fashion retailer Mango is planning to take on rivals such as Inditex and H&M by opening a store a day worldwide and rapidly ramping up its expansion in China. Founder and chairman Isak Andic told financial magazine Expansion on ...
B.C.’s South Fraser Perimeter Road was opened to traffic over the weekend. The new four-lane highway will provide greater access to Vancouver ports and will alleviate congestion in the region. “The completion of the South ...
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The Australian Rail Track Corporation(ARTC)has welcomed its first service into its new Enfield Staging Facility,a port shuttle travelling between Minto and Port Botany. ARTC CEO John Fullerton said the staging facility will provide ...
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French carmaker Renault has partnered with Orange, a telecommunications operator, on a research project to test the automotive uses of very-high-speed, 4G/LTE (long term evolution) connectivity. The new technology will enable divers to ...
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EarMuffers™today introduces revolutionary earplugs that muffle, rather than completely eliminate, sound so that users are not disturbed by sound yet can hear alarms. Based on a patented methodology, the earplugs have secured one of ...
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Xylem Inc. has reduced the energy consumption at Heathrow Airport?s cargo centre pump station by 50 per cent. According to a comparison study conducted by Heathrow Airport?s Water Services Department, Xylem?s Flygt Experior wastewater ...
In conjunction with the Defense Manufacturers Conference (DMC 2013) in Orlando, FL (2-5 December), RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA is releasing new gallium arsenide ...
Caprari S.p.A. has taken a new step forwards and has embarked upon an important project. The decision is based on the need to support a market that demands an increasingly more comprehensive range of products and qualified solutions in ...
There's more freight hitting the road in Canada today than the same time last year, by about eight percent. Even since last month, the volume of freight was up seven percent, making October 2013 the second highest freight volume since 2009, ...
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A Japanese team has broken the world record for the longest distance travelled in an electric vehicle on a single charge. The Japan Times reports the four-driver team, featuring 1997 Dakar Rally winner Kenjiro Shinozuka, covered 1300km ...
Tags: Suzuki EV, Single-Charge Record, 1300km, 43-Hour Run
The leading Turkish bus manufacturer Otokar utilizes Basotect as sound absorber in the engine compartment for its bus models. To design and produce the various acoustic parts, the company partners with Teknofoam, the Turkish converting ...
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Source: FlyKly Kickstarter Practically speaking, you probably don’t always consider your old bike as a viable mode of daily transportation. Sometimes the thought of expending that much pedal energy for a simple jaunt to the store or ...
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The leading Turkish bus manufacturer Otokar utilizes BASF's Basotect as sound absorber in the engine compartment for its bus models. To design and produce the various acoustic parts, the company partners with Teknofoam, the Turkish ...
Tags: travel, Turkish Bus, BASF