Austrian plastic packaging firm Alpla Holding is to expand its market position in Africa by acquiring a production site in Egypt from Argo. The acquisition is scheduled to take place at the end of this year whose financial terms are not ...
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Boussaa Emballages has invested in a new five-colour press with coater that will go into operation next March in the Tunisian capital Tunis. Mohamed Boussaa was 18 years old when he founded his company in 1958 thus making it one of ...
Ford is planning to invest $1.3bn on its Kentucky Truck Plant to support the launch of the all-new 2017 Ford F-Series Super Duty truck. The company said that the investment is being made to build a new body shop, as well as to upgrade and ...
Formula One racing’s greener alternative Formula E has collaborated with automaker Kinetik to introduce the first of its kind driverless car racing series called Roborace. Roborace is expected to run its races before each scheduled ...
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The truck which was awarded “ 2016 Chinese Truck Annual Tow Truck Award ” is C&C Trucks U460 tow tractor. Congratulations to C&C Trucks! The reasons why C&C Trucks got the award are: (1)the cockpit of brand new U460 tow tractor ...
Tags: C&C Trucks, U460 tow tractor, engine, gearbox
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd in the UK has been improving its indium gallium nitride (InGaN)-on-silicon light-emitting diode (LED) technology [Liyang Zhang et al, Journal of the Electron Devices Society, vol3, p457, 2015]. A light output ...
Tags: GaN-on-silicon LEDs, Plessey MOCVD
A rice field in Heilongjiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] The press conference for the grand cultural feature series, The Road of Rice, was held in Beijing on Dec 1. Two episodes of the documentary are expected to be finished before the 2016 ...
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The TV series is being made by BBC Cymru Wales Drama in partnership with The Weinstein Company and BBC Worldwide/Lookout Point. During filming in Russia, local production company Globus Film Studio took the decision to install over 1,200 ...
The fire trucks of Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co. Ltd. made another great achievement in November,2015. Six 22-meter fire trucks of XCMG won the procurement of Beijing Fire Fighting Bureau in batch. The total value was ...
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FAW Jiefang Fuel Economy Challenge Competition and Users’ Group Purchase Activity were held in the famous North China city—Shenyang on November, 21, 2015. This activity not only praised three fuel-saving stars from Shenyang but ...
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“Linglong Tire”2016 Chinese Truck Annual Truck Award ended in Beijing on November,26,2016. Naveco Yuejin awarded two annual model awards, 2016 Mid-sized Truck Award and 2016 The Most Energy-saving Mid-sized Truck Award, for its ...
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Teledyne Microwave Solutions Inc of Mountain View, CA, USA (TMS, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Inc) has launched a line of gallium nitride (GaN)-based wideband amplifiers that is claimed to further lower the form factor threshold ...
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Coopers Brewery has launched a new series of DIY beer extracts in response to the growing interest in craft beer. The extracts are being released under its Thomas Cooper label and have been designed to help DIY brewers mimic the most ...
FAW Jiefang Fuel Economy Challenge & Customer Group Purchase Activity was held in Shijiazhuang. Wang Lei from Shijiazhuang Bingfeng Refrigerating Logistics Co., Ltd. drove his FAW Jiefang truck which only consumed 14.5 liter fuel for 100 ...
Tags: High Fuel Economy, Jiefang Sell 95 Units Trucks, 4/6 liter Deutz engine
Hong Kong veteran actor Lau Ching-wan (left) and mainland actress Jiang Yiyan (right) pose for a picture together in Beijing as they promote their new film "The Murderer Vanishes". [Photo/CRIENGLISH.com] Tough-guy Hong Kong veteran actor ...