More than ever before, automation and assembly go hand in hand (or gripper to gripper)—even at small-scale, low-volume production levels. The quest for higher efficiencies and cost savings is driving manufacturers to add consistency ...
Tags: Automation, modular automation
Beumer Group has fundamentally re-engineered its high-capacity layer palletiser, Beumer paletpac. It now provides better accessibility, a shorter assembly period, higher flexibility and, as a result, lower costs. In high-performance lines, ...
Tags: layer palletiser, Packaging
The new Cayenne GTS resounds an outstanding sporting character in its very name. The resonant letters GTS go back to the famous 904 Carrera GTS of 1963. In 2007, the Cayenne GTS became the first Porsche of the modern era to revive the ...
The Tire Industry Association (TIA) announced several initiatives for 2015, including a Federal Lobby Day that will give TIA members a personal role in raising legislative awareness of issues affecting the tire industry, in a press ...
Tags: 2014 SEMA Show, Tire Industry, tire
Adidas AG reported third-quarter profits slid 11 percent due to negative currency effects and a continuing slide at its golf division. Currency-neutral (c-n) sales increased 9 percent. In currency-neutral (c-n) terms, sales increased 9 ...
Tags: Adidas, Sporting Goods
The Chinese government on Tuesday began to solicit public opinion on a catalogue of industries to guide foreign investment. The draft axes the number of sectors that limit foreign investment from 79 to 35 and cuts the number of items that ...
Tags: Chinese Investment, Foreign Funds
Home furnishing retailer IKEA has announced total sales of £1.4b in the UK for the financial year ending 31st August 2014, an increase of 11.3% on the previous year. Following an ambitious pledge last year by UK country retail ...
Tags: IKEA, furnishing
The Canadian Trucking Alliance asked politicians on Parliament Hill, who are looking into the safe transportation of goods by road, to consider a universal electronic logging device (ELD) mandate among other things. Incidents involving ...
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Ford has a new way to help police agencies save lives, prevent injuries and potentially help save millions of taxpayer dollars. As agents of law and order, police officers monitor driving behavior to ensure the safety of the motoring ...
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“China heavy truck markets will change in ten years, and the change is not fundamental. China commercial vehicle makers will still take majority of the markets, and domestic commercial vehicle markets will not be dominated by joint ...
Tags: Heavy Truck, commercial vehicle
TRX, the creator of Suspension Training and Rip Training equipment, has promoted Paul Zadoff to the role of president where he will head the TRX leadership team in charge of successfully driving the brand’s next chapter of expansion. ...
Tags: TRX, Paul Zadoff, Sporting Goods
Under Armour, Inc. reported revenues increased 30 percent in the third quarter to $938 million compared with net revenues of $723 million in the prior year's period. Sales grew 26 percent in apparel, 50 percent in footwear, and 32 percent ...
Tags: Under Armour, Sporting Goods
The Silentnight Group has confirmed that it will lead on the development of a new Furniture Making Apprenticeship Standard, as part of the Government’s Phase 3 Trailblazers announced by Skills Minister, Nick Boles. Trailblazers are ...
PPG Industries' commercial coatings group held its semiannual Commercial Truck Shop Conference Sept. 21-23 in conjunction with the 2014 fall PPG MVP Business Solutions Conference at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Conference Center in ...
Tags: Commercial Truck, PPG, commercial coatings
AmeriPride Services, a textile services and supply company said it received the SafeTRSA Innovation Award and the Clean Green Innovation Award for its efforts to improve plant safety and the environmental impacts of its operations. The ...
Tags: AmeriPride Services, textile