Senator Chris Coons announces Manufacturing Jobs for America initiative. A new congressional report released Dec. 17, 2013, found that after a decade of devastating declines, the American manufacturing sector is recovering—and now ...
OSRAM SYLVANIA is introducing the OSRAM PrevaLED® CUBE LED light engine, which is ideal for use in downlight fixtures. The PrevaLED CUBE provides fixture manufacturers a flexible, cost-effective light engine that delivers high-quality ...
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Suzuki Australia has announced an introductory driveaway pricing offer for the new Suzuki S-Cross ahead of its official on-sale date on January 1. The offer effectively caps government and dealer charges to $1000 for the month of January, ...
Hoists have been invented a thousand years ago, for lifting heavy objects. It is a device that is used to lower and lift objects. The hoists can be used to move vertically and horizontally. Some manufacturers provide this as an accessory ...
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2013 is a rewarding year for FAW Jiefang who sees a sales volume totaling 188,000 units and makes breakthroughs in several segments of the market. Learnt from FAW Jiefang's Annual Business Conference 2014 on December 15, 2013, FAW Jiefang ...
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Ford Motor Co. said it will add 5,000 jobs in the United States and launch 23 new vehicles globally in the upcoming year. "Next year, we are embarking on our most ambitious global launch year ever" said Raj Nair, group vice president for ...
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Gordon Exel, vice president of sales and marketing at Westport Innovations Inc., will become president of Cummins Westport Inc. in January, the company announced. Exel will serve throughout 2014, the last of three years in which Westport ...
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African-Americans disproportionately affected by generator-related CO poisonings Carbon monoxide (CO) is an invisible killer, and portable gas generators emit a lot of CO. Portable generators were involved in the majority of carbon ...
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BASF, the world's leading chemical company, will build a compounding plant for engineering plastics Ultramid® (polyamide) and Ultradur® (polybutylene terephthalate, PBT) compounds in Yesan, Chung Nam Province, Korea. The new plant ...
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Former federal government minister Greg Combet has been appointed South Australia’s automotive transformation coordinator in a role that will see him oversee the evolution of the industry over the coming years. The appointment ...
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General Motors will invest just shy of US$1.3 billion ($1.45 billion) across five of its US manufacturing sites, with funding going towards production of a new V6 engine, an all-new 10-speed automatic transmission and an existing six-speed ...
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Specifications for the production version of the Citroen DS3 Cabrio Racing have been announced, largely mirroring its concept variant seen earlier this year at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Sharing the concept car’s matte grey ...
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A small number of brand new Infiniti Q50 sedans have been recalled due to a fault affecting the marque’s world-first ‘steer-by-wire’ technology. Nissan North America is recalling 23 Infiniti Q50 models equipped with its ...
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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 ...
Overseas reports suggest production of the Volkswagen Scirocco R is on hold ahead of the introduction of a more powerful facelifted version early in 2014. US publication Car and Driver reports Scirocco R production is in a state of ...
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