From the moment he walked in the door at BancVue in December 2010, Sunny Nair knew he wanted to move the financial services software company from Microsoft's Hyper-V to VMware's virtualization technology. The company was having trouble ...
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German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz is expecting to achieve a new production record in 2012 by manufacturing nearly 1.34 million vehicles. During the year, the automobile manufacturer's production network, which operated at high ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has announced the deployment of 100 Gigabit ...
Scottish farmer-owned co-operative ANM Group has announced plans to sell its Scotch Premier Meat and Yorkshire Premier Meat businesses following a strategic review of its operations. In a statement yesterday (19 July), the company said ...
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Amcor Tobacco Packaging is set to install a new 19-Unit KBA Offset Press at its Innovation Centre in Rickenbach, Switzerland. The press, expected to be delivered later in 2012 has been specifically developed to produce packaging products ...
German luxury carmaker Audi is planning to invest about $2bn to build a new manufacturing plant for sport utility vehicles in Mexico. The Mexican plant, which is expected to start operaton in 2016, will initially have capacity for ...
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German automaker Daimler is planning to invest about $170m at its Centro Industrial Juan Manuel Fangio plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, over the next two to three years. The investments are aimed at developing new commercial vehicle ...
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German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen is planning to build a new transmission plant in Tianjin, China in order to expand its production network in the region. Production is expected to start by the end of 2014 at the new plant, which ...
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Beverage company in the UK Diageo has announced the opening of its $50m blending and packaging facility in Relay, Maryland, US. The company has installed three new bottling lines and upgrades to key production areas of the facility. In ...
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German luxury-car maker BMW is planning to invest GBP250m over the next three years to increase the production of MINI at its facilities in Oxford, Birmingham and Swindon in the UK. The company is also planning to produce up to 10 ...
German carmaker BMW is planning to invest EUR200m to build a new vehicle manufacturing plant in Brazil. Construction at the new plant is expected to start in April 2013 and production is scheduled to commence in late 2014. The company ...
BASF inaugurated its new dispersions plant in Daya Bay Petrochemical Industrial Park in Huizhou, China. The new plant will produce styrene butadiene (XSB) dispersions and styrene acrylic (SA) dispersions. XSB dispersions are mainly used as ...
German carmaker Volkswagen is planning to invest about EUR50.2bn in its global automotive division and development of new technologies through 2015 in a bid to meet the challenges of the uncertain European market. Volkswagen Board of ...
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BASF has opened a new polyurethane system house in Tianj, China, which will further expand its global service and production network. The new facility will deliver customized polyurethane solutions to its customers, supported by local ...
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According to a new report from Fuel Cell Today, a London-based market intelligence firm, annual global fuel cell shipments are set to triple between 2011 and 2012, with shipments of fuel cells for materials handling vehicles (MHV) set to ...