In the presence of the Republic of Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean Senate’s President Isabel Allende and Minister of Energy Máximo Pacheco, cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker ...
Tags: Solar Installs, PV Project
Aganga, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, said he was impressed with the level of investment the firm had made and asked for more investments into the economy. He described the paper packaging facility as unique and the first of ...
Tags: Packaging Firm, Packaging
Nanoco Group plc of Manchester, UK, which produces cadmium-free quantum dots and other nanomaterials for applications including lighting, LCD displays, solar cells and bio-imaging, has signed a follow-on joint development agreement with ...
Tags: Osram LEDs, Quantum, dot LEDs
The GfK Consumer Climate Europe study for the third quarter of 2014 paints a gloomy outlook for the European economy, noting in particular that while there is a backdrop of growth in the UK, the Scottish referendum harmed consumer ...
Akebono Brake Corp. says it will continue to manufacture its entire ultra-premium ceramic disc brake pad line in the U.S., a strategy which provides exclusive control of its production processes. The company says making its ceramic brake ...
Tags: disc brake, Auto Parts
So far, dual-clutch transmission (DCT) technology is only available in the award-winning Duonic gearbox available in Mitsubishi Fuso Canter class 4/5 trucks, but you'll be seeing more of it soon. Fuso was first with a DCT in a commercial ...
The UK Government has allocated £11 m in funding for the research and development of the carbon-cutting technologies for energy efficient vehicles. With the funding the UK Government aims to support the growth of energy efficient ...
Tags: carbon-cutting technologies, energy efficient vehicles
The Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii has selected BAE Systems’ HybriDrive Series-E propulsion system to power four New Flyer Xcelsior 60-foot, low-floor rapid transit buses. The system ...
Tags: Transit Buses, cv
The global apparent steel demand for 2014 will increase by two percent to 1.56 billion metric tons, following a growth of 3.8 percent in 2013, according to the short range outlook presented at the 48th annual meeting of the World Steel ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Chinese Demand
Speaking at the 48th annual meeting of worldsteel (World Steel Association) held in Moscow on October 6, Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff, chairman of the worldsteel Economics Committee said that with a seven percent negative GDP growth expected ...
Tags: steel demand, real estate sector
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for September 2014, with both carload and intermodal volume increasing compared with September 2013. US Class I railroads originated 1,190,431 carloads ...
Tags: rail traffic
Unilever Thailand will invest around THB8bn ($246m) in the country to expand its operations over the next three years. Of the total investment, around THB1.5bn ($46.1m) will be employed in the construction of an ice cream cold storage ...
Tags: Unilever, Operations, Food
Double Coin Holdings LLC and its American subsidiary, China Manufacturers Alliance LLC (CMA), plan to fight the U.S. Department of Commerce’s preliminary decision to impose a duty of 105% on CMA’s imports of off-the-road (OTR) ...
Tags: Antidumping, AD rate
According to the statistics released by the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, in the January-August period of this year France's basic steel product and ferroalloy exports amounted to a value of €6.28 billion, ...
Tags: Steel Product, ferroalloy
U.S. consumer confidence moved closer to the historical average of 100 points in August, according to The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which recorded a reading of 92.4 points (1985=100), up from 81.5 points in August ...
Tags: Consumer Confidence