Orders to U.S. factories fell in August by the largest amount on record, but the drop was heavily weighed by an expected plunge in volatile aircraft orders. A key category that tracks business investment plans posted a small increase, ...
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In Sep.2013, the Baotou municipal government signed the research and development cooperative agreement with Tsinghua University and both parties develop electric mining vehicles, BT3650 with the effort for 11 months. Such model features ...
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The total cost of ground transportation for Canadian shippers dropped 3.4 percent in July from June according to the results published by the Canadian General Freight Index. Ground transportation costs have been slipping for the past few ...
Auto manufacturer BYD Motors introduced world’s largest battery electric vehicle named The Lancaster eBus at the 2014 American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Expo in Houston. The vehicle was designed and manufactured in ...
The Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii has selected BAE Systems’ HybriDrive Series-E propulsion system to power four New Flyer Xcelsior 60-foot, low-floor rapid transit buses. The system ...
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Consumer goods giants Procter & Gamble (P&G) has expanded its sustainability goals to conserve resources, protect environment and improve social conditions. As a part of its efforts towards sustaining environment, it will also try to ...
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Maroon Group has announced the addition of Brian Wilson as Chief Financial Officer. Wilson brings with him to Maroon financial expertise with multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 and private-equity owned companies. Prior to joining Maroon ...
Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, will deliver technical presentations featuring the use of thermoplastic composites in semi-structural transportation applications as well as in on-board hydrogen ...
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By sharing a pool of kegs rather than owning their own, over 200 leading craft brewers helped reduce their collective carbon footprint by over 3 million kg of CO2e in 2013. These findings, based on a study by John Heckman, Ph.D with PE ...
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Jointly held by the Ministry of Transport of the PRC and Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government, China (Shenzhen) International Logistics and Transportation Fair (CILF) is the leading logistics & Transport Expo in Asia. ...
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The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.6 percent in August from July, rising for the second consecutive month, according to the US ...
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Armstrong will initiate a price increase in the U.S. and Canada on commercial vinyl composition tile and BioBased tile by 4%, commercial wall base by 4% and select residential tile products including Units, Afton and Classic tile by 5%, ...
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BASF India Limited inaugurated its large-scale chemical production complex at Dahej in Gujarat, India. With a project cost of INR 1,000 crore (approximately €150 million), the site represents BASF’s single largest investment in ...
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Technovaa Packaging Industries, the industrial arm of Darvesh and a major paper products/plastic film producers in the regional packaging industry, has broken ground for a manufacturing facility at Kizad, according to the Abu Dhabi Ports ...
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Lone Star Transportation has announced its merger with Texas based open-deck transportation carrier company, Daseke. Lone Star specialises in transporting heavy shipments and is also known for transporting wind turbine components in North ...
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