German automaker MAN Truck & Bus has signed an agreement to deliver concrete pump chassis and other special-purpose vehicles to Chinese construction machinery manufacturer SANY Heavy Industries. As per the deal, both the firms will step ...
ZF Friedrichshafen, a developer of driveline and chassis technologies, has started construction of a new passenger car axles plant in Beijing, China, in order to expand its presence in the region. The company is investing about EUR15m in ...
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Volvo Bus Latin America has sold 688 bus chassis to the capitol of Colombia, Bogotá, which is touted to be the company's largest deal ever in Colombia. The deal includes chassis for 48 articulated and 97 bi-articulated vehicles ...
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Spartan Motors has appointed Dennis Schneider as the new president of the company's Emergency Response (ER) business. Schneider has a longtime manufacturing, operations and logistics executive with experience in the US and abroad, and in ...
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Spartan Motors subsidiary Spartan Chassis has received a contract to supply 25 Metro Star emergency response cabs and chassis to the Beijing, Shenyang, Suzhou, Taiyuan, Wenzhou and Wuhan Fire Departments in China. The company said that ...
Spartan Chassis, a unit of Spartan Motors has received a subcontract from defense contractor BAE Systems to support the production of the International Light Armored Vehicles (ILAV). Under the multi-million dollar ILAV program, the ...
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Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor has unveiled the next-generation vehicle engineering concept, Nissan Common Module Family (CMF). The new platform is designed to allow the company to share up to 80% of its parts between new vehicles, to ...
German carmaker Opel will offer SuperSport chassis option in all its forward-wheel drive (FWD) Insignia cars. Both the gasoline and diesel powered FWD Insignia cars will now be offered with a chassis package which comprises High ...
Navistar, a global manufacturer of commercial vehicles and engines, has entered into a global commercial bus partnership with Brazilian commercial bus body manufacturer San Marino Onibus e Implementos (Neobus) and also invest in the ...
Epson enters the dye sublimation printing market for the first time with the announcement of two roll-fed dye sublimation printers: the 44-inch SureColor SC-F6000 and the 64-inch SureColor SC-F7000. Providing high quality output at up ...
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For its next generation of supercomputers,Cray has focused on radically improving the I/O(input/output)of individual nodes.The new XC30 supercomputer will feature a new interconnect,called Aries,and a new routing topology that together ...
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Responsibility for general illumination and Chief Technology Officer The supervisory board of OSRAM AG, in Munich, has appointed Dr. Peter Laier (44) to the managing board of Germany's largest lighting manufacturer and listing candidate. ...
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Infoworld - Is there anything real anymore? Virtual servers, virtual desktops, cloud storage -- what happened to good old steel boxes you could set a user's manual on? Oh wait, even documentation is software now. Is it too much to ask for a ...
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Ever since the beginning of the Iron Age,metals have played a key role in human civilizations over the millennia.One good quality of metals is that they are easy to form any shape by melting,moulding,casting or forging.Most metals are ...
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According to Japanese media reports,Japan's Hitachi Construction Machinery Company on September 20,said in a news release,dump trucks running test of self-discipline operation will be implemented in 2013.screen Welding Machine Management ...
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