As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in July this year the wholesale selling prices of industrial products in Germany were down 0.7 percent compared to July 2013, following the 0.8 percent year-on-year price ...
Tags: Metal Prices, industrial products
German automobile manufacturer has opened its first model of solar charging station, Point. One S, at its multi-functional exhibition facility, BMW Welt in Munich. The charging station is designed and developed by EIGHT along with ABB, ...
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AACHEN, Germany — ZF has produced a prototype system that can maneuver a long combination vehicle up to a loading dock precisely with no driver in the cab at all. Perhaps with no driver anywhere to be seen, because anyone who can ...
Tags: ZF, Driverless Truck, Auto Parts
According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in June this year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-28) decreased by ...
Tags: Statistical Office, Decrease, Energy
Global crude steel production in June this year increased by 1.7 percent year on year to 136.82 million metric tons, while a 0.2 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). In ...
Swiss fashion retailer, Charles Vögele Group succeeded in bringing the negative sales trend to a halt in its existing floor space in the first half of 2014, while EBITDA skyrocketed in the same period. Gross sales, after adjusting ...
Amcor Tobacco Packaging announced plans to close its operations in Neumunster, Germany, and build a new tobacco packaging plant in Indonesia. Amcor is winding up its Neumunster operations owing to the overcapacity in gravure printing ...
Tags: Amcor, Operations, Packaging
Dracco will be firing from all cylinders with its latest collection of global brands, with international campaigns surrounding Zombie Zity, Predasaurs and Filly. An in-bound and out-bound licensing powerhouse, the firm currently boasts ...
Taxes on Brazil steel products have been adding costs to the competitiveness of the country’s industry, an executive said recently. Citing a comment from Sergio Leite, vice-president for sales at Usiminas, a media report said high ...
Tags: Taxes, Competitiveness, Energy
A hybrid form of perovskite - the same type of material that has recently been found to make highly efficient solar cells that could replace silicon - has been used to make low-cost, easily manufactured LEDs, potentially opening up a wide ...
Tags: Perovskite Material, LEDs
For second-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €46.2m, rebounding by 5% from €43.9m last quarter (which had been down 14% on the previous quarter) and up 2% on €45.3m ...
Tags: Aixtron, MOCVD, Electronics
Axalta Coating Systems has made a commitment to invest $10.5 million in Tlalnepantla, Mexico, to expand capacity to produce resins used in the manufacture of transportation coatings. The investment is intended to enhance and expand the ...
Tags: Axalta Coating Systems, Invest, Construction
At the recent Intersolar Europe 2014 trade show in Munich, Tokyo-based Showa Shell Sekiyu subsidiary Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – signed a ...
Tags: PV, solar modules, copper indium selenium
The European semiconductor distribution industry continues to deliver good news. According to DMASS (Distributors’ and Manufacturers’ Association of Semiconductor Specialists) semiconductor distribution sales in Q2/CY14 grew by ...
Tags: European, Growth, Electronics
Germany MAN Lion on the Road brand activity was held in MAN headquarter in Beijing on July 8, 2014 and they invited some local logistics companies and media to test driving and feel the latest vehicle model and their technology. As an ...
Tags: Germany MAN Lion, Logistics, Transportation