US carmaker General Motors will invest about EUR4bn in European subsidiary Opel through 2016 to assist in launching new models, restore profit and raise market share in the region. Majority of the investment will be aimed at developing ...
In 2012, the global solar market was affected by incentive policy changes in various countries. Now such incentive programs are mostly aimed at pushing steady market growth until grid parity is achieved. In Europe, solar PV installations ...
The International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW) has released its annual IARW Global Top 25 List of the public refrigerated warehouses (PRWs) with the greatest capacity of warehouse space in the world. Accompanying the Global ...
Tags: Service, warehouse space
On April 9, Chinese steelmaker Pangang Steel Vanadium & Titanium Plant Co., a subsidiary of Sichuan Province-based Chinese state-owned steel producer Panzhihua Iron and Steel (Pangang Group), announced that it has decided to issue ...
Tags: Pangang Steel, Mineral
In the January-February period of this year, the aggregate gross profits of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in China amounted to RMB 709.2 billion ($113 billion), increasing by 17.2 percent year on year, according to China's ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
For fourth-quarter 2012, 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a producer of specialty metal and chemical products, has reported revenue of $128.6m, up 6.5% on $120.7m last quarter but down 13.9% on $149.4m a year ago. Revenue for ...
Terumo Europe, a subsidiary of Terumo, has entered into a long-term, multi-million dollar distribution agreement with BSD Medical. Under the agreement, Terumo will have the right to market BSD's MicroThermX microwave ablation system in100 ...
Tags: Terumo, Medicine, Microwave Ablation System
For full-year 2012, Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has now reported its earnings, after reporting revenue in late January. Revenue ...
Tags: OLED lighting, screens, solar cells
In an earlier column, we discussed a framework for risk identification. With the understanding that risk lies at the intersection of vulnerability (specific points of weakness in the supply chain) and exposure (financial or production ...
Sawgrass Technologies, the industry leader in wide format digital printing technologies, will feature the latest innovations in their whole product solutions portfolio at the ISA Show, including the recently launched Roland SOLJET XF-640 ...
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PE INTERNATIONAL, global sustainability software and services firm, announced it has been selected by Kimberly-Clark to help manage their corporate-wide sustainability initiatives. With PE INTERNATIONAL, Kimberly-Clark is upgrading its ...
Speaking at the International Steel Trade Day organized by STSG-Eurometal in Milan on April 4, Cesare Viganò, general manager of Italy-based CLN, presented his outlook for the steel market in 2013. The global steel industry has ...
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International travel insurance and medical assistance company Allianz Global Assistance has purchased New Zealand travel insurance specialist, Comprehensive Travel Insurance 2004 (CTI), for an undisclosed sum. Allianz Global Assistance ...
Tags: Allianz Global, CTI Acquisition
In March this year, the purchasing managers’ index (PMI) of China’s steel sector decreased to 44.6 percent, sharply down 14.3 percentage points compared to the previous month, as announced by the China Steel Logistics Committee ...
Tags: Chinese Steel Sector, PMI, Mineral
MID Retail Inc. announced that A'GACI has selected its Advanced Merchandise Planning and Advanced Allocation software to intelligently manage merchandising operations as A'GACI continues its rapid growth. "A'GACI is accelerating its ...
Tags: Textile