The global automotive plastics industry is in boom mode today. Improvements in vehicle design and the ongoing trend toward lighter weight for improved fuel efficiency have led to greater demand for engineering plastic components. A recent ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Auto
New orders to U.S. production plants soared a record 10.5 percent in July on a 74 percent bookings spike in the volatile transportation sector. The somewhat misleading double-digit gain was propelled by an eye-popping 317.3 percent surge in ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Hardware
It is learned that China auto parts sales were increased a lot in the first half year. And the sales revenues were 140.9 billion Yuan for the 20 surveyed list auto parts makers in the first half year, up 9.2% over last year and their net ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Weichai Power
Japanese companies TDK and Toray Industries are streamlining their fund transfers to and from China to cut costs, a move many other businesses are expected to follow now that the Chinese government has eased financial regulations. ...
Tags: TDK, Toray Industries
Foton Daimler first heavy truck experience store opened in Cangzhou on Sept. 3, and this is also the first heavy truck experience store in China. And we can find that experience store is rather popular in other industry such as Apple and ...
Tags: Foton Daimler, Heavy Truck
According to the statistics released by the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, in the January-July period of this year France's basic steel product and ferroalloy exports amounted to a value of €5.75 billion, increasing ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel Product
Scott Bader Asia Pacific is exhibiting advanced composites at the 20th China International Composites Industrial Technical Expo (CCE 2014), taking place from 3-5 September at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre. This ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
In the January-August period this year, Ukrainian metallurgical company Dneprospetsstal (DSS) saw a 2.1 percent yeat-on-year decrease in its crude steel production to 189,000 mt. The company's output of finished steel in the same period ...
Tags: Crude Steel, finished steel
Croatia-based specialist packaging producers EcoCortec has created marine biodegradable film products to help tackle the plastic packaging waste polluting the oceans across the world. Biobased polymer technology has been used to create ...
Tags: Biodegradable Film, Bags, Packaging
Port of Melbourne's new container terminal, operated by Victoria International Container Terminal Ltd (VICTL), will be fitted out with EUR 40 million (approx. AUD 100 million) worth of Cargotec (Kalmar) container handling equipment and ...
IATA reports that air freight volumes were up by a strong 5.8% in July compared to a year ago. This is an acceleration on June, when freight tonne kilometres rose 2.4%, and reflects improving demand conditions in some regions. There was ...
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Researchers in Japan and USA have claimed the first experimental demonstration of higher breakdown voltage for slant field-plate (FP) gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) over convention field-plate designs ...
Tags: GaN, HEMTs, Electronics
General Motors is planning to equip its next generation cars with eye and head tracking technology, aimed at increasing driving safety. The technology installed in the car will detect drivers head movement and alert them when they are not ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Motors, Car Parts
K'Nex unveiled a life-sixed replica of the Bloodhound Supersonic Car at Brooklands Motor and Aviation Museum on Friday, August 29th. The impressive construction - which ToyNews was invited along to see - has been awarded the Guinness ...
Tags: Supersonic Car, Toys
Q2 spending also up by 56% in Asia, but EMEA down, says sector report by Infonetics. Market research firm Infonetics Research has published a vendor market share and preliminary analysis from its Optical Network Hardware report on sales ...
Tags: Optical Hardware, Electronics