Toyota Australia sales and marketing executive director Tony Cramb has revealed that an official decision on whether to close the company’s local manufacturing operations will be made “in the first half of 2014″. ...
Tags: MID-2014, Toyota, Local Manufacturing
Accuride announced today the development of a new coating technology for steel wheels, which it says will extend service life by two years. The new Steel Armor coating will better protect against corrosion, and will be available at no ...
Tags: Accuride, coating, steel wheels, extend, service life
Fourth Quarter Consolidated Operating Results Net sales for the fourth quarter were $291.7 million and increased $44.5 million, or 18.0%, compared to the prior year. Acquisitions, net of $0.3 million of intersegment eliminations, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined representatives from the Georgia Department of Transportation in Atlanta Thursday to announce a Transportation Infrastructure Finance Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan for $275 million to build new ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In a manufacturing or industrial setting, there are a number of reasons why it's important to choose the right industrial machine lighting. These reasons include increased safety, efficiency and productivity, as well as reduced cost. You ...
HARKAND has increased its presence in the burgeoning Asia Pacific region by securing a clutch of multi-million dollar contracts for execution in 2013/14. Under a deal with PTSC Offshore Services, the ROV support vessel Harkand Harmony has ...
Beijing - Activity in China's vast factory sector grew at a milder pace in November as new export orders shrank, a preliminary survey showed on Thursday, bolstering expectations the economy could lose some of its vigor in the fourth quarter ...
Tags: PMI, Chinese economy
Medical device giant Johnson & Johnson has reportedly negotiated a settlement that will bring an end to over 7,500 lawsuits from patients who received the company’s all-metal hip implants. For many of these patients, complications ...
Tags: J&J, Hip Implant, $4 Billion
Releasing the apparel exports data for the month of October 2013, Dr A Sakthivel Chairman AEPC stated, "Apparel exports were to the tune of USD 1190 million in October 2013-14 with increase of 30.91 per cent against the corresponding month ...
Tags: Indian, Apparel Export, Zoom 30.9%
Quackity quack, the quacks are back, and this time they're targeting fish oil supplements, claiming that taking fish oils raises your risk of prostate cancer. Hogwash. This is just another case of pure fearmongering quackery by the ...
In what he describes as "the mother of all conspiracy theories," an Arizona-based talk radio host says the powers that be are intentionally destroying large bodies of water in a bid to create a multi-trillion-dollar biofuel industry. ...
Tags: algae, conspiracy, ocean, oil
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative brain condition that comes with a multibillion-dollar per year cost to the American public, and its takeover doesn't seem to be slowing down. It is estimated that in 2013 alone, Alzheimer's disease ...
Tags: coconut oil, Alzheimer, patient
New information has surfaced in the West, Texas, explosion case that could alter the course of the ongoing investigation into what caused the disaster. As it turns out, West Fertilizer Co., which used to be known as Texas Grain Storage ...
Tags: Texas, fertilizer, plant, lawsuit, Monsanto
You thought you were making an informed health choice by using extra-virgin olive oil in place of cheaper, low-quality cooking oils, right? You probably never thought that a tiny, expensive bottle of EVOO might be cut with crap or doctored ...
Tags: Coconut Oil, Red Palm Oil, Food, Health, Olive Oil
The federal deficit – the amount by which the US government’s total budget outlay exceeds its total receipts for a fiscal year – is estimated at $680 billion for 2013. The federal debt – the sum total of the ...