This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of handsets, memory chips and televisions, will invest 1.7 billion U.S. dollars in its plant in east China's Jiangsu Province in the coming five years, local authorities said Sunday. The ...
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Two Cambodian companies on Monday signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with Chinese companies to invest in the agricultural sector. One deal was inked between Chan Sothea, general director of Cambodia's Century Rice Group, and Ivan, ...
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Necessity is the mother of invention, which is as true for package development professionals as for garage tinkerers. We spoke recently with Aron James Clarkson, designer-inventor and CEO of StarOne Group, who says he's in business to ...
Supporting Automotive Reshoring from China Jaguar Land Rover's drive to reshore tooling and components for its premium automotive products from China to the UK created an immediate need for additional wire EDM capacity at Pontypridd ...
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Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate is geared up to invest around $48m in Belgian chocolate production facility in Mouscron, in a move to double the capacity over the next two years. The new production lines at the facility are scheduled to become ...
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The traditionally low-cost pasture-based dairying regions, such as Australia, have lost their cost advantage as input prices have risen, and now compete on the global market with a similar cost of production to producers with more intensive ...
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American vehicle manufacturer General Motors (GM) has announced plans to invest $1.3bn in five manufacturing sites in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. The five GM plants include Detroit, Flint and Romulus, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio and Bedford, ...
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Bridgestone do Brasil Industria e Comercio, a subsidiary of Japanese automotive parts maker Bridgestone, is set to invest $63m to expand its tire manufacturing plant in Cama ari, Bahia, Brazil. The increased production at this plant is ...
Spuntech Industries Inc. — the U.S. division of Israel-based N.R. Spuntech Industries Ltd., a manufacturer of spunlaced fabrics — will invest more than $35 million over the next three years to expand its Roxboro, N.C., facility ...
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Sliver knitter Monterey Mills, Janesville, Wis., has acquired sliver knitter Glenoit Fabrics (TT) Corp. Inc., Tarboro, N.C., from the management group that has owned the company since 2009. Monterey plans to invest in Glenoit's ...
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Gildan Activewear Inc., Montreal, plans to invest more than $250 million to build two yarn-spinning facilities, and expand and renovate a third plant in North Carolina to support projected sales growth and bolster the company's global ...
Sports apparel brand Nike Inc., Beaverton, Ore., has opened a water-free dyeing facility at its Taiwan-based contract manufacturer Far Eastern New Century Corp. (FENC). The new facility utilizes the Netherlands-based DyeCoo Textile Systems ...
Given the fast growing market demand for viscose staple fibre (VSF), a man-made, biodegradable fibre with characteristics akin to cotton, Hong Kong-listed specialty cellulose producer Sateria is trying to put the VSF fabric production ahead ...
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The new Hengqing district in Zhuhai City is considered a prime real estate location, but why is property here being sold at base prices? Bidders for the property are required to be parent companies of enterprises, and auction conditions are ...
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