Jan 06,2013
According to an industry expert, the forecast for massive government spending on infrastructure in the Middle East and specially in the UAE this year will help boost businesses of stakeholders and attract foreign partnership. The ...
Jan 06,2013
Business Standard reported that senior executives of the country’s leading manufacturing companies are optimistic that the industrial sector, currently reeling under economic slowdown, could return to high growth trajectory ...
Jan 06,2013
Trubodetal, a subsidiary of Russia-based pipe producer OMK Group, has announced that it has commissioned an elbow cold forming machine, as a part of the investment project launched by the company in April 2011. The newly ...
Jan 06,2013
The HSBC’s final reading for the purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China’s manufacturing sector in December rose to 51.5, well above the preliminary reading of 50.9 published in the middle of the month and ...
Jan 06,2013
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported Wednesday that its Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) registered 50.7 percent in December, an increase of 1.2 percentage points from November's reading of 49.5 percent, indicating ...
Jan 06,2013
Business Standard reported that amid the disappointing macroeconomic numbers,the HSBC Purchasing Managers'Index(PMI)for the manufacturing sector in India might give some cheer to policy makers. It rose to a six-month high in ...
Jan 05,2013
At London’s Heathrow Airport, training fire crews is an almost constant activity, which is why it has a purpose-designed fire training rig constructed from steel to the same size as a Boeing 747. Packed full of safety ...
Jan 05,2013
Xinhua reported that China's Purchasing Managers'Index for manufacturing sector remained at 50.6%in December. China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said that this is the third consecutive month that the PMI figure has ...
Jan 04,2013
Manufacturing output showed growth in December for the third time in the last seven months, according to today’s December Manufacturing Report on Business from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). The PMI, the index ...
Jan 04,2013
Aker Solutions is acquiring Separation Specialists Inc, a California-based provider of produced water de-oiling products and field services. “With the acquisition of Separation Specialists, we are able to offer a complete ...
Jan 04,2013
The upgraded plant, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, is expected to be fully commissioned by mid 2013. Once fully commissioned, the plant capacity will increase by 40% and produce effluent quality that is suitable for ...
Dec 31,2012
While more than 75 percent of suppliers are confident in their ability to meet their customers’ needs in 2013, one-third of respondents to ASQ’s 2013 Manufacturing Outlook Survey say they anticipate a problem with a ...
Dec 31,2012
Meet Modern’s team of editors covering ProMat 2013. Bob Trebilcock Bob Trebilcock, Modern’s executive editor, has covered materials handling, technology and supply chain topics for Modern Materials Handling since ...
Dec 31,2012
An industrial panel saw is used to separate flat pieces of wood into panels. The tool comes in two configurations: vertical and horizontal. Both configurations may require the operator to move the cutting machine across the wood ...
Dec 31,2012
Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A. (TMHU), the supplier of the number one selling lift truck in North America, celebrated the end of its 2012 philanthropic giving year with the donation of two internal combustion lift trucks to the ...
Dec 31,2012
A CNC router benefits private woodworkers in the same ways it benefits companies: by offering topnotch cutting accuracy, great production capacity, and hands-free operation. However, trends in CNC routing change faster for ...
Dec 31,2012
Taipei, Dec. 28, 2012 (CENS)--Fubon Financial Holding announced yesterday (Dec. 27) joining hands with its subsidiary Taipei Fubon Bank to obtain 80% stake in First Sino Bank of mainland China and take part in the cash capital ...
Dec 29,2012
CITI has ended rival UBS's 11-year streak at the top of the stockbroking heap, as brokers warn that an imminent uptick in market activity is unlikely after the worst year since 2005. "I would say next year will be similar to this ...
Dec 28,2012
According to France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, in October this year, the turnover in France's manufacturing industry increased 0.9 percent month on month, following the 2.7% month on month decrease ...
Dec 28,2012
A FORMER analyst at Moody's Investors Service and the friend to whom he allegedly passed inside information are set to face trial over insider trading charges, after losing a court appeal. Sydney-based Daniel Joffe, who worked at ...
