Egemin recently opened a brand new production and test center for its AGVs. The new center, called the E’gv Factory, has a total capacity that is over three times the capacity of the area it is replacing. With the expansion, Egemin ...
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The 1 million square-foot Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi plant in West Point, Miss., will sit on a 570-acre site, employ 500 and include production, warehousing? and operations facilities. Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi ...
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It is reported that Korea's Hyundai Steel fired up its third blast furnace, a move interpreted as to grab market share from POSCO and Japan for supplying the cars and ships industry. Hyundai Steel started its first blast furnace in 2010 to ...
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An optical interconnect introduced by Intel on Wednesday may someday slim down cabling throughout data centers if the company can get enough vendors to mass-produce it. The interconnect, which Intel is calling MXC, is designed to offer ...
Shell's recent announcement that it is seeking additional feedstock supplies for its proposed western Pennsylvania petrochemical facility is only one major roadblock that the facility needs to circumvent in the next few years, a Platts ...
China's legislators on Monday called for greater support for the development of renewable energy industry which is facing obstacles in planning, purchase system, subsidies and technology. Development of renewable energy must be a ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA is expected in 2013 to become the first PV engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) firm to install 1 gigawatt worth of solar power ...
First Solar is forecast to install 1.1 gigawatts (GW) of solar or photovoltaic (PV) power systems in 2013, more than double the 516 megawatts (MW) in 2012, according to IMS Research, now part of IHS. This high rate of growth will allow ...
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At the end of June, the Canadian wood-based-panels manufacturer Norbord re-commissioned its US-American OSB plant in Jefferson, which had been shut down indefinitely in January 2009. The company had already announced this step at the ...
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South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor has delivered five units of its ix35 Fuel Cell model vehicle to London in UK that will be part of the London Hydrogen Network Expansion (LNHE) project. The delivery is part of the company's contract ...
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There were 5,694 sub 50 kW PV installations registered during the week ending 30th June 2013 (similar to levels seen towards the end of July 2012, before a tariff reduction on 1st August 2012), compared to 3,194 in the week ending 23rd ...
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Indonesia is determined to get a market price for LNG exported from the Tangguh project to China's CNOOC, a senior official with upstream regulator SKK Migas said Monday. "The new price cannot be below the market price. It has to be ...
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Various stakeholders urged the Government departments to promote and buy uniforms made in Zimbabwe, at a two-day ‘Made in Zimbabwe’ clothing conference. The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, the Zimbabwe National Army and the ...
China's state-owned refiners plan to run their refineries at around 81% of capacity in June, a rise of three percentage points from 78% in May, Platts monthly survey showed Monday. The survey this month covered 11 Sinopec refineries, ...
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The coal-fired capacity utilizing selective catalytic reduction for NOx control will nearly double in the period 2012 to 2017. This is the prediction of the McIlvaine Company in its continually updated, NOx Control World Markets. Total ...