Swedish automaker Scania has teamed up with Swedfund to produce biogas at a plant in Nagpur, India which will be used as an automotive fuel. The gas will be made from digested sludge from one of the Nagpur city's wastewater treatment ...
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Honda has commenced testing of its new cars with automated and connected vehicle technology at the Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS) in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company will use the 'GoMentum Station' test-bed site at the ...
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IRL has announced the launch of a new edition of its single country report A Profile of the Chinese Paint Industry. In this study, IRL examines China’s paints and coatings market independently and not as part of a regional study on ...
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AkzoNobel has announced that it is exploring new ways of increasing business value by piloting a unique four dimensional approach. The so-called 4D method looks at the whole value chain and is designed to measure both positive and ...
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After nine regional and three central rounds of negotiation, BAVC and IG BCE have reached an accord in the wage dispute: remuneration for the 550,000 employees at the 1,900 plants of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries will rise 2.8 ...
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While biocides market growth in the mature markets of Europe and the United States is estimated at 2% and slightly less than 1%, respectively, the 5% growth forecast in biocides consumption in Southeast Asia during 2014-2019 makes this ...
In recent years, environmental protection has become an important issue for the Chinese government and for Chinese citizens from all walks of life, rising to the same status as economic development. According to transport development and as ...
On March 27, the second meeting of XCMG Overseas Marketing Strategy Consultative Committee (XCMG OMSCC), with the topic of "communication, cooperation and innovation", was held at XCMG headquarters. Over 30 representatives from overseas ...
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FootBalance signed a distributor agreement with Hickory Brands, Inc. for the U.S. market. Effective Apr. 2, Hickory Brands will represent FootBalance's in-store concepts for 100 percent custom insoles and sandals as well as off-the-shelf ...
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Party firm to increase activity in toy sector and put popular brands in the hands of consumers and retailers. Brand party firm Come Round is calling on more toy manufacturers and retailers to get on board as it expands its activity within ...
Swedish automaker Scania has commenced production of city buses at the company’s Narasapura plant in Karnataka, India. The company has been assembling trucks at the plant since 2013, and till date it has invested €40m on the ...
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Global coding and marking specialist Linx Printing Technologies has opened its new 41,000 sq ft UK headquarters. The company invested close to 8m to bring up a single building at Compass Point Business Park which integrated its ...
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The US Department of Energy has given conditional commitment loan worth $259m to Alcoa to manufacture high strength aluminum for light weight vehicles. The loan will support the aluminum makers Tennessee manufacturing facility, where the ...
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Allison Transmission recently announced that Ohara Corporation’s new SM100S Antarctic snow vehicle, the first such product Ohara has released in 10 years, will be equipped with an Allison 4000 Series™ fully automatic ...
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Smurfit Kappa has opened a new experience centre in Konin, Poland, eight of its kind in Europe. Each experience centre is meant to provide a range of accessible solutions and services to its customers including how to use packaging ...
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