Japanese automobile major Toyota has added a new muscle model, capable of profiling changes in posture pre-collision of vehicle occupants, to its Total Human Model for Safety (Thums) Version 5 software application for virtual crash ...
Tags: Toyota, Pre-Collision Analysis
China is expected to overtake the US in 2026 in nominal GDP in dollar terms and maintain its position as the largest economy to 2050. India is expected to move up the rankings to third place, with real growth averaging close to 5 per cent ...
PPG Industries recently completed a $5 million expansion at its coatings manufacturing facility in Wuppertal, Germany. The project added equipment to existing buildings on the campus, supporting up to a 35 percent increase in annual ...
Tags: PPG Industries, coatings
The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) announced that André Borschberg, one of the pilots and co-developer of the Solar Impulse solar-powered aircraft, will deliver the keynote address during the Opening Session of the 2015 ...
GfK’s UK Consumer Confidence Index has increased six points to 7 in June. All of the five measures used to calculate the Index saw increases this month. Joe Staton, head of Market Dynamics at GfK, says: “We’re seeing a ...
Notebook demand may not see as strong growth in the second half as originally expected and overall shipments are expected to decline to 160 million units in 2015, down 5% on year with some conservative players even forecasting the number to ...
Tags: Notebook Demand, PC
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has raised its revenue guidance for second-quarter 2015 by 5%, from the $9.3-9.5m ...
By the year 2020 the first cylinder housings manufactured from polymer composite materials will be introduced into passenger car and motorcycle engines, replacing the aluminium components currently in use, predicts SBHPP High Performance ...
Tags: motorcycle engine, passenger car, SBHPP, electric vehicles
Plastic packaging giant RPC Group is surging ahead with more acquisitions to boost growth. Speaking at a media event in central London this week, chief executive Pim Vervaat said that the company was becoming a leader in plastic products ...
Tags: Plastic packaging, RPC Group, plastic products, packaging
More car exports to Oceanic country look unlikely in near future Chinese carmakers look unlikely to take advantage of the free trade agreement between China and Australia signed this month due to their lack of competitiveness in the ...
Tags: Chinese carmakers, Australian marke, Car
According to Domotex, a trade fair organiser of carpets and floor coverings, one of its exhibitors, Zollanvari installed hand made carpets at the Retreat hotel which hosted the G7 summit in early June. Zollanvari, a producer and supplier ...
Tags: Carpets, natural plant dye
The Presidents’ Meeting that took place in Tel Aviv this week highlighted five challenges facing the diamond industry, but the issue of profitability was the most pressing. Constituents of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses ...
Tags: diamond industry, mining
Sanko Group, a leading textile firm in turkey, and Isko, a well-known denim manufacturer, have selected Datatex as their core ERP systems provider, implementing it in Sanko and Isko manufacturing facilities, including Isko’s Istanbul ...
Tags: Core ERP System, Textile
Competition in the gaming notebook segment is surely to become keener in the second half of 2015 as notebook brands including Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) together are expected to ...
Tags: Gaming Notebook, Tablet Notebook
Most of the cotton growing states like Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka have started getting good rainfall, which has led to farmers beginning sowing of cotton. “CCI has sold nearly 1.5 ...
Tags: Propel Cotton Sowing, Textile