UPM-Kymmene has received a purchase offer for the French planing mill in Aigrefeuille d'Anuis. The offer, however, is still subject to certain pre-conditions, the details of which have not been disclosed by UPM-Kymmene as yet. The offer is ...
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The Finnish machinery and plant manufacturer Raute saw its order intake recover a little to €24m in the second quarter. The first quarter had ended with new orders valued at just €10m. The backlog of orders climbed by €3m ...
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US based vehicle manufacturer General Motors has cut the price of its new Chevrolet Volt car by $5,000, becoming the latest automaker to reduce prices of electric vehicles. The company said the new price will start at $34,995, including a ...
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American Shiloh Industries has expanded its light weight casting offering with the acquisition of Contech Castings, a provider of high-pressure aluminum die cast parts for the automotive industry. The deal adds P2000 squeeze casting, ...
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has collaborated with Olenex C.V and New Britain Palm Oil (NBPOL) to provide a wide range of fully traceable, segregated sustainable palm oil for the European market. Established in 2004, RSPO is ...
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In a move to boost automotive manufacturing sector in the country, the Australian Government has provided A$200m($180m) support package to the industry. The new package has been announced following the criticism from automotive industry ...
US-based General Motors (GM) has adopted into a new purchasing contract which enables the company to recover the cost of safety recalls from suppliers. This new deal will also offer the company access to its supplier's financial ...
Toyota Australia has unveiled plan to invest $123m in its facilities in the country, following the $180m support package announced by the Australian government for automotive industry. Of the total investment, the automotive firm will ...
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The creditor banks for Chi Mei Lighting Technology Corporation are demanding the company's shareholder groups like Innolux Corportation and Chi Mei Corporation to repay the company's debt. However, Innolux Corportation's response was that ...
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Furniture Brands International posted a 4% sales decline and a $40.8 million net loss in its second quarter, and said it's working to reduce costs, pursue asset sales, and modify its credit facilities. The manufacturer and retailer ...
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Variable, Inc., developer of the NODE modular wireless sensor platform, has launched NODE+chroma, an affordable sensor module that provides instantaneous information about color scanned from virtually any surface. NODE+chroma transmits ...
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, Inc., yesterday announced that it signed a non-exclusive worldwide patent license agreement with Transphorm, Inc. that provides access to Cree's extensive family of patents related to GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) and GaN ...
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New Best Wire Industrial, one of the major carbon, alloy and stainless steel wire products makers in Taiwan has announced its second-quarter consolidated sales revenue totaled NT$1.285 billion, soaring by 25% from a quarter ago. ...
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Australia Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) has released its July 2013 VFACTS data reporting that the sales of passenger cars, SUVs and commercial vehicles has increased to 90,235 in July 2013, up by 4.1%, compared to 86,641 ...
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German carmaker Daimler is set to establish a car manufacturing plant in Brazil to produce C-Class model cars in its Mercedes-Benz brand by 2015. As the taxes on foreign vehicles are increasing in Brazil, the auto firm finds it hard to ...
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