China's manufacturing sector continued to slow in January 2017 because of a further improvement in the health of the sector. The Caixin General Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) edged down to 51.0 last month from December's ...
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China's overseas direct investment is estimated to soar 40 percent to a record $189 billion in 2016 from the previous year, according to a study released by the US consultancy Rhodium Group and Berlin-based Mercatur Institute for China ...
Amid the country's effort to build a greener energy system, the country's raw coal production by its large-size coal companies continued to decline in 2016. Combined raw coal production from the country's designated large coal companies ...
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) officially released the full articles of the 13th Five-Year Plan, regulating the energy development roadmap and action plan from 2016 to 2020. For solar PV, the basic ...
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Sales of SSD products by Lite-On Technology in the first quarter of 2017 are expected to be affected by a tight supply of memory products, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report, citing company CEO Warrant Chen. ...
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US-based KBR has been awarded contract to provide maintenance, planning and industrial services for renewable packaging and paper products producer International Paper (IP). Under the four-year contract, KBR will be responsible for ...
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Ford Motor and Toyota Motor are establishing SmartDeviceLink Consortium, a nonprofit organization working to manage an open source software platform with the goal of giving consumers more choice in how they connect and control their ...
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ROK Stars, the consumer goods and environmental technologies development firm established by John Paul DeJoria and Jonathan Kendrick, has announced an on-going investment plan in its ABK Brewery to meet the increasing demand for its beer ...
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Rockwell Automation OEM partner AFA Systems has developed a new HD-CMA continuous motion autoload cartoner for potato chip producers. HD-CMA machine holds capacity to run 320 products per minute, cartoning one bag of chips per carton. ...
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Global speciality chemicals distributor Azelis has expanded its African operations by opening a new office in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The new office forms part of Azelis’ commitment to invest in Africa. The company established its ...
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China Mengniu Dairy has agreed to acquire China Modern Dairy (CMD) for HK$6.4bn ($826m) to consolidate its position in the high-end dairy products sector. As part of the deal, China Mengniu will buy 965.47 million shares in CMD from a ...
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Amid spiking energy demand and mounting environmental challenges, China is striving to build a greener energy system, with more investment flowing to the clean energy sector in the coming years. China's total energy consumption will be ...
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At CES 2017, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and Google are demonstrating a seamless integration of the Uconnect 8.4-inch connected vehicle system featuring Android open-source operating system. A hands-on concept demonstration of the ...
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Global production value for high-brightness LED chips in 2017 will reach US$13.179 billion, growing 2.8% on year, according to Digitimes Research. There will be 303.754 billion high-brightness LED chips shipped globally in 2017, ...
BMW is establishing a new facility to develop connected and automated driving tech in Unterschleissheim, near Munich, Germany. The BMW iNEXT is scheduled for release in 2021 – self-driving, electric and fully connected. A whole ...
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