BMW recognised as the best and most reliable brand by GTÜ
An analysis carried out by the Gesellschaft für Technische Überwachung (GTÜ) found that BMW was the automobile brand with fewest defects and the highest...
Toyota’s hydrogen fuel-cell car collects top honours ahead of global launch
The prestigious science and technology magazine Popular Science has proclaimed Toyota’s upcoming Fuel-Cell Vehicle (FCV) winner in the automotive category of its 2014 Best...
ABB is one of the 2014 Top 100 global innovators
ABB, a leading provider of power and automation technologies, has been recognised for the third time by Thompson Reuters as one of the world’s...
BAE Systems & Dassault Aviation bag multimillion international contract
The UK and French Governments have awarded BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation with a two-year contract to help define the Franco-British requirement for a...
Lockheed Martin set to land major US defence contract
Global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin has reached an agreement in principle with the US Department of Defence for the production of 43...
New Boeing, COMAC collaboration to transform “gutter oil” into aviation biofuel
Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) have opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil, known as "gutter oil" in...
Alcoa to sell ownership stake in Mt. Holly smelter to Century Aluminum
Alcoa, a global leader in lightweight metals technology, engineering and manufacturing, has announced that it will sell its ownership stake in the Mt. Holly...
IBM pays GlobalFoundries $1.5bn to shed its chip division
American multinational technology and consulting corporation IBM will pay $US1.5 billion ($A1.62 billion) to GlobalFoundries in order to offload its costly chip division, according...
Chinese scientists unveil new liquid 3D metal printing method
Scientists at the Beijing Key Laboratory of CryoBiomedical Engineering, part of the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences,...
Hewlett-Packard to spilt in two companies
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard plans to separate its computer and printer business from its corporate hardware and services operations and create two completely separate entities...
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Building resilience as manufacturing requirements become more complex
The industrial machinery and heavy equipment manufacturing sector is critical not only for its direct outputs, machines, and equipment that pave the way for construction, agriculture and manufacturing but also for its crucial role in economic development and innovation.
