Forklift and material handling equipment manufacturer, Voltas Material Handling Private Limited has announced today that it will operate under the name of ‘Kion India Private Limited.’ Voltas Material Handling was launched in 2011 as a joint venture between the Kion Group and Voltas Ltd. In November 2012 the Kion Group – one of the world’s two[Read More…]
Official awards ceremony on 16 September 2014 The winners of the 2014 Automechanika Innovation Awards have been chosen. On 28 August, an independent jury of eight experts agreed on the seven winners whose innovative solutions and futureoriented products are to be honoured and shown at Automechanika Frankfurt. The winners were selected from 120 entries, 66 of them from Germany and[Read More…]
Dr Karthik will lead the Embedded System Products and Technology (ESPT) Organization at Analog Devices India (ADI) Analog Devices, Inc. a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications, has appointed Dr Karthik Sankaran as the General Manager of Embedded System Products and Technology (ESPT) Group. He is based out of Analog Devices’ India office in Bangalore. Confirming the announcement,[Read More…]
In a bid to ignite practical learning among students, Danfoss India, a leading provider of climate and energy solutions signed a Co-Operation Agreement with Vellore Institute of Technology here today. Under this agreement, an Advanced Drives Laboratory will be set up which will provide electric drives for the academic benefit of undergraduate and postgraduate students at VIT which will spur[Read More…]
The supply chain collaboration platform SupplyOn is offering a new function that supports manufacturing companies in observing statutory requirements with regard to so-called “conflict minerals”. The Dodd-Frank Act requires companies that supply their products to the target market U.S. to disclose the use of certain minerals along the entire supply chain – from the country of origin, the smelters and[Read More…]
Organization Committed to Extending its Technology Leadership A123 Systems LLC, a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and systems, has announced on 19 August that Dr. Patrick Hurley has joined the company as its new Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Hurley has also assumed leadership responsibility for A123 Venture Technologies, which is the company’s research and development unit focused on[Read More…]
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (hereinafter, “Sumitomo Electric”) received a decision from the National Development and Reform Commission of China (the “Commission”) stating that Sumitomo Electric violated China’s Anti-Monopoly Law in connection with the supply of automotive wiring harnesses and related products. Sumitomo Electric is committed to compliance with all applicable competition laws around the world. The Commission’s decision is based[Read More…]
SKF has announces that Tom Johnstone has decided to step down as President and CEO of SKF, on 1 January 2015. Tom Johnstone will be succeeded by Alrik Danielson who has been President and CEO of Höganäs AB since 2005. Alrik Danielson worked at SKF between 1987 and 2005 and held a number of executive positions within the Group including[Read More…]
Marintec China 2015, the All China Maritime Conference and Exhibition, will once again present the maritime industry’s largest international trade fair in Asia. Organised by UBM Asia, the largest commercial trade fair organiser in Mainland China, and the Shanghai Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers (SSNAOE), this biennial exhibition and conference projects a strong showing vis-a -vis high re-booking[Read More…]
In only a few other branches of industry are development pressures as enormous as in aircraft construction. One of the reasons is the fact that legislation is getting ever stricter about the CO2 emission of aircrafts at the same time as market expectations are of a rapidly accelerating growth in the sector. It is as a consequence of this development[Read More…]
