Volvo Trucks is now launching I-Shift Dual Clutch, the first transmission on the market with a dual clutch system for heavy vehicles. Thanks to power-shift gear changes without any interruption in power delivery, torque is maintained and ...
Tags: Volvo Truck, Gearbox, Heavy Vehicles
The Australian Ministry of Finance has announced that the 30 percent Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) on coal and iron ore has been finally repealed. The repeal bill is now moving to the House of Representatives where it is expected to ...
Tags: Mining Tax, Mineral
Global speciality ice cream restaurants company Baskin-Robbins has announced plans to expand its Australian store network by over 25 per cent in the coming year, and has appointed a new Marketing Manager. Baskin-Robbins has appointed ...
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The Chinese bakery and cereals market – already the largest in volume – is set to become the second most valuable by 2018, as more urban dwellers consume pick-me-up snacks on-the-go, according to new findings from global market ...
Tags: bakery market, cereals
The household LED lighting market will grow at a 30% clip from 2014-2016, according to LEDinside, a subsidiary of the Taiwan-based market intelligence firm TrendForce. LEDinside has analyzed the 10 key trends affecting the household LED ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Market, Lighting
The China Association of Metalscrap Utilization has been lobbying the central government to lower the 17% tax on steel scrap sales to help increase its utilization in steelmaking, CAMU Secretary General Li Shubin said at the 7th China ...
Tags: Steel Scrap, Metal, Mineral
Wednesday, September 03, 2014: In May 2013, Glunz & Jensen A/S acquired an initial 16.8 % stake in Othonia Curing Technology A/S (Othonia). Othonia develops an innovative computer-controlled UV LED concept for curing surfaces which is ...
Tags: UV LED Lamp, LED Lamp
The research group of professor Jairo Sinova of the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, in collaboration with researchers from the UK, Prague, and Japan, has realised for the first time a new, efficient spin-charge ...
Tags: Spin-Charge Converter, GaAs, Electronics
Zuru has signed a global exclusive deal with Kickstarter hit Bunch O Balloons and will launch the product in spring 2015. The Kickstarter campaign raised close to $1 million dollars and the concept 'takes water balloon fights to the next ...
Tags: Zuru, Bunch O Balloons, Toys
INVISTA, one of the world’s largest integrated producers of fibres and polymers, will launch a new brand strategy for its LYCRA fibre. The campaign encompasses an engaging brand positioning, brand architecture and the “LYCRA ...
Tags: polymers, LYCRA fibre
As the hot-selling second-generation Nissan Rogue enters its second model year, it will maintain the lowest starting MSRP in the segment* of $22,790 USD.** Complete U.S. pricing for the 2015 Nissan Rogue, which is on sale now at Nissan ...
US-NAFTA freight totaled $103.0 billion in June 2014 as all five major transportation modes – air, vessel, pipeline, rail, and trucks – carried more freight by value in June 2014 than in June 2013, according to the TransBorder ...
TORONTO — Two tractors were stolen from Coburn Transportation Systems early Monday morning, according to the Ontario Trucking Association. The Whitby-based moving company is missing two 2005 Freightliner Columbia tractors, units 337 ...
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has appointed industry veteran Emad Afifi to the newly created role of senior ...
Tags: GigOptix, Senior Director, Electrical
The profitable company from Northern Italy is privately owned and recently generated annual sales of more than €60 million (US $80.40 million). Its products include so-called moving heads, follow spots and projectors. They are used at ...