During the Automotive News World Congress this week, IBM revealed results of its new Automotive 2025 Global Study, outlining an industry ripe for disruptive changes that are breaking down borders of the automotive ecosystem. The study ...
Tags: Automotive Industry, mobility requirements, ecosystem disruption, Auto
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 83.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2014, a 1% increase from the fourth quarter of 2013, according to Gartner. These results indicate a slow, but consistent improvement following more than two years of ...
Tags: PC shipments, PC market
Mind Candy and Firebox founder to explain how to take a retail business from the UK to the wider world. Michael Acton Smith OBE - founder of Mind Candy - has been confirmed to deliver the keynote address at Spring Fair next month. Acton ...
Tags: online retail, Toys
The Kickstarter board game hit combines principles of professional cycling with strategy, and the UK's love for the sport makes the market very appealing for its inventors. The growing interest in cycling in the UK is making the market ...
Tags: Cycling Game, Toys
Ford has chosen aluminium product maker Constellium as the supplier for aluminum structural parts to be used in the Ford F-150 pickup truck. The pickup truck will use high-strength, military-grade, aluminum alloy as a build material, and ...
Tags: Ford, aluminium product, structural parts, Trucks
International Finance Corporation (IFC) will provide a senior loan of $8.5m and mobilize a parallel senior loan of €5m from Rabobank to help Georgia’s glass bottle manufacturer Mina expand its business. The financial help from ...
Tags: Glass Container, financial help, Packaging
GU Energy Labs’ has named former Smith Optics executive Blair Clark as its new vice president of sales and announced several other changes to its sales organization. Jon Parker has been hired as senior regional sales manager for the ...
Serene Furnishings is gearing up for a busy New Year with a string of new designs set to be unveiled at the January Furniture Show and the eagerly anticipated launch of Serene Living. The leading bed supplier recently announced plans to ...
Tags: recliners, dining tables, chairs, Furniture
Axalta Coating Systems and Shanghai Kinlita Chemical have signed an agreement to form a joint venture in China. Aimed at driving deep into China’s burgeoning commercial truck market, the agreement leverages Axalta’s position ...
Tags: Commercial Truck Market, economic development, Construction
Sika has reported record sales in every region and also says that all relevant growth targets for full-year 2014 have been exceeded. An above-average increase in net profit is expected for the business year 2014. In the fourth quarter of ...
Tags: emerging markets, Construction
Goodway Machine Corp. and Tongtai Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. are expected to join the NT$10 billion (US$322.58 million at US$1:NT$31) revenue club of Taiwan's machine-tool sector in Taiwan with consolidated revenue in 2015. Only a handful ...
Tags: machine-tool sector, Manufacturing
SMC Ltd., a medical device contract manufacturer with locations in California, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Ohio, Costa Rica, and India, announced an expansion and move to a 210,000 sq. ft. facility in Devens, MA. The expansion will ...
Tags: high-speed automation, testing, kitting, Health
On January 9th, National Science and Technology Awards Conference held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Heavy duty diesel vehicles pollution control technology (SCR) that SINOTRUK involved won the second prize of National Science ...
The 12th Dhaka International Textile & Garment Machinery Exhibition (DTG2015), jointly organised by Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA), Chan Chao Int’l Co., Ltd., and Yorkers Trade & Marketing Service Co., Ltd, will be held ...
Tags: weaving, knitting, dyeing-printing-finishing, Textile
Reusable passive packaging is an economic option and is preferred by the healthcare or pharmaceutical industry, according to a survey conducted by global provider of temperature assurance packaging Sonoco ThermoSafe. The 2014 survey was ...
Tags: package efficiency, ownership costs, pricing, Agriculture