The Taiwan Cabinet plans to roll out the Taiwanese version of “Industry 4.0 Plan” this June just shortly after such plan had been publicized on TV to be part of China's official program, with the aim to help the island's ...
Bosch has introduced a packaging machine SVE 2520 DZ that produces up to 100 Doy Zip bags a minute. The vertical bagger allows for the production of seven styles of bags, and gives them a glossy finish. Manufacturers have bag style ...
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German automobile major Volkswagen has started production at its new plant at Changsha in China’s Hunan Province, adding an output capacity of 300,000 cars a year. Located about 900km to the west of Shanghai, the plant will begin ...
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General Motors (GM) is pumping in $1.2bn to revamp its pickup truck plant at Fort Wayne, Indiana, with the work on its upgrade expected to commence in June. The modification of the plant involves putting in place new pre-treat, ...
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Germany-based aftermarket tuning firm Brabus has introduced a performance kit that claims to boost engine power and torque for the new Mercedes S 500 plug-in hybrid. Brabus PowerXtra B50 Hybrid kit is said to raise power of the V6 engine ...
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April's Chinese light vehicle results echoed previous concerns as sales of locally made models grew by as little as 2 percent from a year earlier to 1.91 million units. Leaving aside any discrepancies that might have risen from the timing ...
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German eco-business firms Zelfo Technology and Upgrading have teamed up to introduce an up-cycled packaging material based on wheat straw for the food industry. The Micro and Nano Fibrillated Cellulose (M/NFC) packaging solution ...
Coal production in China, the world's largest producer and consumer of the mineral, declined 6.1 percent in the first four months this year as the impact of the government's clean air and renewable energy policies began to weigh on the ...
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At the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2015) in Phoenix, AZ (19-21 May), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, ...
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Avago Technologies Ltd (a supplier of III-V-based analog interface components for wireless, wireline, storage and industrial applications) has launched the ALM-2203 miniature highly integrated low-noise amplifier (LNA)-filter RFIC module, ...
Tags: LNA-Filter Module, Car Radio
Overall revenue growth of the global wide format and speciality print community from 2007 to 2015 was about 9 per cent CAGR for the overall business and 7 per cent for digital wide format. This is one among the key findings of the ...
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USDA said it has initially projected the 2015/16 global cotton crop at 111.3 million bales, 7 per cent or 8 million bales below the 2014/15 estimate. In a report, USDA said area reductions in many countries are expected to account for ...
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Shared autonomous vehicles can pull down automobile sales in the US by 40% over the next 25 years, a trend capable of forcing majors General Motors (GM) and Ford cut output by more than half. Shared autonomous vehicles refer to "robot ...
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Automobile manufacturers will make a new recall history in the US, repairing defective airbags across 34 million cars after regulators pulled up Japanese supplier Takata on safety issues. With the historic recall expected to span over ...
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Industrial restructuring, growth in services good indicators of improving conditions, say experts Positive signs have started to emerge in China's economy since the second quarter, suggesting deepened industrial restructuring amid rapid ...
Tags: Industrial restructuring, Positive signs, China's economy