More than a century after General Electric Co. (GE) built its first research laboratory in an upstate New York barn, it’s wooing Silicon Valley engineers in a bid to connect machines the way Facebook Inc. (FB) links people. New hires ...
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The Society of Plastics Industry Inc. Today signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Plastics Machinery Industry Association. The two trade groups agree to exchange web links, publications and reports, business and market ...
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A new generation of highrise commercial and institutional wood buildings are planned for B. C. In the next couple of years. The buildings will feature engineered wood products, such as cross laminated timber (CLT), laminated veneer lumber ...
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Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co. (1157) headed for the first gain in seven trading days after reassuring investors about the planned sale of a sanitation-equipment unit that's its fastest-growing business. The company rose ...
Industrial air conditioners are designed to keep people and equipment cool in hot working conditions. They are available in various types such as air and water cooled, split, portable, and wall and trailer mounted. They also come in a wide ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (7011), a Japanese maker of heavy machinery, will suspend construction of its wind turbine manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas because of sluggish demand in the U. S. The decision came after the ...
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Japanese stocks rose, with the Nikkei 225 (NKY) Stock Average rising the most in two weeks, after a North Korean rocket launch failed and Fast Retailing Co. Forecast record profit. Shares pared gains as slower growth in China tempered ...
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North American Municipal Drinking Water Plants Will Spend Over $3.5 Billion on New Hardware, Instrumentation and Treatment Chemicals. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in reviewing the projects it is tracking in North ...
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For a long time, Americans have channeled their fear about China's factories into an exasperated, four-word refrain: They're stealing our jobs! By offering low-wage competition to U. S. workers, the Chinese picked off low-end manufacturing ...
The U.S. Defense Department needs to realize the dangerous consequences a potential lack of domestic rare earths may have on the U.S. weapon industry, suggests a latest study by the Congress released last week. The document, titled Rare ...
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High commodity prices have led to a spike in machinery buying on Midwest farms. We asked the full-line equipment manufacturers what industry trends they see among their customers. They came back with seven clear machinery-buying trends. ...
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From a sprawling manufacturing base deep in China’s southwestern Hunan province, some 100 kilometers from where Mao Zedong was born, construction-machinery maker Sany Group (SANYIZ) plans to take on the world. While workers in blue ...
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The combined Canadian and U. S. Lumber industries shrunk by about 30 percent as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis that, in 2008, sparked the U. S. 's worst recession since the Great Depression, according to a summary in the 2012 ...
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Larry Mermuys started buying Borch injection molding presses imported from China in 2004 for his company, Tier 2 auto supplier Plastics Plus Inc. In Hamilton, Ontario. “The first ones had issues, ” he said. But at NPE2012, he ...
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With rapidly rising costs and continuously strengthening local currency, Chinese exporters are under mounting pressure. Most Chinese exhibitors interviewed at NPE2012 expect their export business to be at least stable, and many ...
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