As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the German economy continued to grow in the third quarter of the current year, following the momentum gained in the second quarter. The country's price, season and calendar ...
The Volkswagen Group will invest 84.2 billion euros ($125 billion) in its automotive division over the next five years as the German auto giant seeks to "power [its] way to the top". Volkswagen Group chairman Martin Winterkorn said more ...
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The Mercedes-Benz CLA Shooting Brake has been spied almost completely free of camouflage, uncovering the forthcoming wagon body style of the premium German brand's compact 'four-door coupe'. Like the larger CLS Shooting Brake, the CLA ...
PRD Energy Inc. ("PRD" or the "Company") (TSXV: PRD) has completed drilling and logging operations at the Boerger well in Germany. Highlights of the results to date include: 485 meters of horizontal length drilled in the targeted Jurassic ...
The LED market for 2014 will see continued growth for the general lighting market and supply shortage of LED chips due to increasing demands from the LED lighting market, according to a recent report from UBS. In the report, the financial ...
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Pentair and The Pentair Foundation are working with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including Water Missions International (WMI), Action Against Hunger and the American Red Cross to help provide funds and support for clean water, and ...
Tags: Pentair, mobilize, resource, support, Typhoon Haiyan, relief, effort
German packaging and bottling machine manufacturer Krones has improved its NitroHotfill process in order to make the hot-filling process cost-efficient and energy efficient. The process allows the users to produce bottles with a ...
Tags: Krones, Hot-Filling Process
The new Fassmer built Helgoland ferry for AG EMS, will be constructed under the supervision of classification society DNV GL. The nearly 80m long vessel will be the first German flagged newbuilding to be equipped with an propulsion system ...
Tags: DNV, GL, class, LNG Powered Helgoland Ferry
The all-new Skoda Octavia has been rated one of the most structurally sound vehicles on the market by independent crash-tester ANCAP. The Octavia easily claimed the maximum five-star safety rating (up from the old model's four-star ...
German power meter brand Power2Max is now spec'ing Praxis Works chainrings as an OE option on its power meter cranksets. For a $99 retail upcharge, customers can get any Power2Max meter with Praxis' cold-forged LevaTime rings installed. ...
The sorption behaviour of 20 organic micropollutants originating in wastewater – for which there are little or no experimentally determined data – is assessed by means of sediment column experiments. Organic pollutants derived ...
Tags: Sorption Behaviour, Wastewater-Originated Micropollutants, Groundwater
Shimano's latest entry into the e-bike powertrain market takes aim at Bosch with a center-drive motor that will be introduced in Europe in 2014. Called STEPS—the name given to the first group it launched in 2010—an acronym for ...
Tags: Transportation
Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest has announced that its integrated iron and steel plant Ural Steel and German wheel producer Mefro's Russia plant have agreed to extend their ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Flat Rolled Products, Automotive Wheels
Steel service center Horizon Steel Company announced Wednesday their intent to expand their operations and locate a 90,000 square foot facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The project will bring a capital investment of $15 million and 30 ...
Tags: Horizon Steel, Mineral
German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that the 400-ton converter at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG's Duisburg-Bruckhausen Works produced the first heat in September this year, after modernization by SMS Siemag. The internal volume of ...
Tags: SMS Siemag, Mineral