The dust has settled. Following two years of very strong growth in lift truck sales, shipments leveled off in 2012. With growth at just a fraction of a percent, worldwide sales didn't match the 27% growth in 2011 or the 32% growth in 2010. ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
Japanese automobile production in June this year totaled 808,557 units, decreasing by 84,588 units or 9.5 percent compared to the same month of the previous year. Japan's auto output indicated a year-on-year decline for the 10th consecutive ...
Tags: Automobile Output, Mineral
Fincantieri to build a super luxury ship for regent Seven Seas Cruises Thursday, Jul 11, 2013 Fincantieri has received an order from Regent Seven Seas Cruises for the construction of a super luxury cruise ship. The new ship will be ...
Tags: ship, Transportation, Service, logistics
Automobile manufacturer Honda Automobile Thailand (HATC) has commenced the construction of its new automobile production plant in the home-market with an investment of about THB17.15bn ($552.4m). Located at the Rojana Industrial Park in ...
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Royal DSM, a life sciences and materials sciences firm based in the Netherlands, c, a New Zealand based producer of nutritional products for both human and animal markets, for an undisclosed amount. Unitech, established in 1970, is ...
Finnish packaging company Huhtamaki Oyj has initiated efficiency enhancing measures in an attempt to improve the competitiveness of its Foodservice Europe-Asia-Oceania business segment. The company initiated employee cooperation ...
Tags: Finnish packaging, Huhtamaki
Australian miner BHP Billiton has said that it expects the coal market to be "comfortably supplied" in the near term, with Australian quality hard coking coals expected to remain among the most highly valued. According to BHP Billiton, the ...
Tags: coking coal, raw mat, Australia, Oceania, BHP, opinion, mining, Istanbul
The 2013 DHL Export Barometer reveals the continuing hurdles of a strong Australian dollar and a plunging business outlook from the mining sector have impacted exporters’ profitability outlook but not their confidence. Exporter ...
Tags: Australian, Dollar, Service
According to a report by the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE), in the past 12 months mining and energy projects worth A$150 billion have been delayed or cancelled in Australia. The report also indicated that the ...
Tags: raw mat, Australia, Oceania, investments, mining, Istanbul|
Nissan is recalling around 841,000 vehicles globally after a fault related to their steering wheels was discovered. Affecting Nissan Micra models – also known as the Nissan March in some markets – built in Britain and Japan ...
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ASICS officially opened its first ever Australian flagship store in Sydney. The store offers customers the ultimate running experience and a sophisticated biomechanical analysis system. The opening was attended by brand ambassadors Greg ...
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Microsoft's Surface Pro will finally be available in the UK next month, with the announcement that the tablet will be shipped to 19 countries, mostly across Europe and Oceania before the end of May. It will also launch in Korea, Malaysia, ...
Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced that, together with its steel pipe pile joint corporation in Vietnam, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Pipe Vietnam Co., Ltd. (NPV), it has recently received orders for large ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
With the ongoing trend for businesses to move operations, particularly manufacturing, off-shore, it makes for a refreshing change to see a company going against this trend and electing instead to bolster the number of workers at its ...
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Sumitomo Chemical Establishes Business Support Regional Headquarters for Southeast Asia, India and Oceania Region Sumitomo Chemical has newly established Sumitomo Chemical (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd in Singapore as its Business Support Regional ...