Shares of Amtek, which plans to double the space at its production plant in Shanghai to around 72,000 square metres in the next two years to tap on the increasing demand for cars, have risen about 25% so far this month.
The ruling coalition in Pakistan led by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has suffered a major setback as another of its key ally, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), decided to part ways with the government. “The reservations of the party have not been addressed and we are forced to make a decision to go our [...]
While Unified Communications in some form is being broadly adopted by companies, very few actually use all available features. – Unified Communications,
as a concept, is broadly supported by enterprises at nearly all levels. The
idea of somehow integrating aspects of e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging
and other communication methods sounds like a good idea to nearly everyone. But
putting UC (Unified Communications) int…
RIMs BlackBerry Torch 9800, while selling as low as $99 on Amazon with a two-year AT&T contract, carries a bill of materials of $171.05, according to iSuppli and that’s before software and other costs to RIM. – The Research In Motion BlackBerry Torch 9800 carries a bill of materials estimated
at $171.05, according to an Aug. 17 report from market research firm iSuppli.
AT amp;T, the exclusive U.S. carrier of this newest BlackBerry smartphone,
currently offers the Torch for $199.99 with a two-year contra…
The Constitutional Court in Turkey has deemed that three parts of the government’s reform package are contrary to the constitution. As a result, slight adjustments have been made by the court to the proposed reforms which altered the way judges and prosecutors are appointed. These changes aside, the court gave the go-ahead for a September referendum on the reform package as a whole.
Mainboard-listed Midas Holdings announced today that its Aluminium Alloy Division, Jilin Midas Aluminium Industries Co., has clinched a RMB59 million ($11.9 million) contract to supply aluminium alloy extrusion profiles, including fabricated parts, to the inter-city high-speed train CRH5 EMU project in China. The contract was awarded by CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Co.
Renewable Energy Asia Group, formerly known as Superior Fastening Technology, has bagged a US$20 million ($27.6 million) master contract to manufacture wind turbine components for a European turbine maker.
Under the terms of the contract, Renewable Energy will manufacture, supply and deliver up to 600 sets of steel casing for the power generating system of the turbine, based on monthly purchase orders to be received under the master contract. The components will be delivered in phases to the turbine maker’s factories in Europe, the USA and China,. The contract is expected to be fulfilled by the end of the year.
The success of the Apple iPad, and the expected competing products to follow from Google, HP, Microsoft and others, will have a major impact on the electronics supply chain, says iSuppli, benefiting firms such as Texas Instruments, Nvidia and LG Display.
– The success of the Apple iPad or more exactly, its user interface–focused
design is expected to have a major impact on the electronics supply chain, as
well as how electronics products are designed, research firm iSuppli detailed
in an April 29 report.
Central to changes that the iPad is ins…
China Kunda Technology Holdings, the provider of precision moulds, plastic injection parts and in-mould-decoration (IMD) products to the car and electronics, says wholly-owned subsidiary, Kunda Mould (Shenzhen) Company, has entered into a strategic Joint Venture (JV) with Beijing Baiju Electrical Appliance Co. to manufacture, sell and supply auto components.
Minister Milan Marković says he does not rule out new incidents in southern Serbia after the last week’s attack. “But this would not stop the integration in this part of the country,†said Marković, who is heads the Public Administration and Local Self-Government department in the current government, and is also chief of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa.
Juken Technology says net profit after tax for the financial year ended 31 December 2009 (FY2009) soared to $1,173,000 from $46,000 in FY2008 on pent-up demand for auto components in the second half and improved cost-efficiencies.
The manufacturer of high-precision plastic moulding components said the 25-fold increase in the bottom-line was achieved despite a 8.3% decline in revenue to $45.4 million in FY2009 from $49.5 million a year earlier due to weak global demand in the January-June 2009 (1HFY09) period.
A machine that prints organs is coming to market
THE great hope of transplant surgeons is that they will, one day, be able to order replacement body parts on demand. At the moment, a patient may wait months, sometimes years, for an organ from a suitable donor. During that time his condition may worsen. He may even die. The ability to make organs as they are needed would not only relieve suffering but also save lives. And that possibility may be closer with the arrival of the first commercial 3D bio-printer for manufacturing human tissue and organs.
The new machine, which costs around $200,000, has been developed by Organovo, a company in San Diego that specialises in regenerative medicine, and Invetech, an engineering and automation firm in Melbourne, Australia. One of Organovo’s founders, Gabor Forgacs of the University of Missouri, developed the prototype on which the new 3D bio-printer is based. The first production models will soon be delivered to research groups which, like Dr Forgacs’s, are studying ways to produce tissue and organs for repair and replacement. At present much of this work is done by hand or by adapting existing instruments and devices. …
Heavy rain and snow storms were set to hit parts of China yesterday, threatening travel chaos as millions headed home on the eve of the Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year, is China’s most important holiday, reuniting families around the vast nation of 1.3 billion and
A second major snowstorm in less than a week struck the eastern United States yesterday, paralysing travel for millions, shutting down the US capital, and forcing school closures from Virginia to New York. The National Weather Service forecast that the storm, dubbed Snoverkill by the local
It wasn’t so long ago that Toyota’s progress seemed rather relentless. The company posted one set of record results after another. There has been something of a rude awakening lately on quality.
Maybe the firm has tried to grow a little too quickly. And there have been pressures to cut back on cost – which perhaps partly explains what has been going on with the recall.
One of the striking things about Toyota’s accelerator pedal problem is just how many vehicles are affected. The component is common across many Toyota models globally.
That’s how you get cost down, by employing vast scale economies on parts like that which can be described as ‘commodities’ – a part of the vehicle that is unseen and makes no difference to the end-product in terms of customer perception. It doesn’t need to be specified differently according to model, as an interior trim component that the customer sees and feels might be. The lower the cost, the better.
That’s all fine and dandy when there are no problems with the component or its design. But if anything goes wrong, the commonality of supply that got the unit-cost of the part so low becomes a double-edged sword: the fallout is wide.
I would guess that some other manufacturers are looking on with mixed feelings. Yes, they are probably feeling that Toyota taking a hit like this one provides a market opportunity for them, at least in the short-term. But they may also like to reflect on the dangers of global sourcing and scale economies.
The pressures for ‘cost-down’ have never been as big as they are these days and Toyota’s experience provides a warning on the risks that come with that.
British rapper Lady Sovereign, real name Louise Amanda Harman, has claimed that she has seen ‘I Kissed A Girl’ singer Katy Perry’s private parts.
Lady Sovereign, 24, had last year in April been photographed with Perry, 25, fondling her breasts, and rumours surfaced that they got cosy in the bathroom at a party in New York [...]
For NASA’s final 2009 mission to the International Space Station, the weather cooperates and Atlantis heads to the space station hauling two large pallets of equipment to pave the way for the final build out of the international space outpost.
– The space shuttle Atlantis rumbled off the launching pad Nov. 16 on a
flawless launch to the ISS (International Space Station). With near
perfect weather — a rarity for recent NASA launch attempts — Atlantis
departed on time at 2:28 p.m. for the 11-day mission to the space
station.
The miss…
Going off-road with your 4×4? Make sure that it is ready and capable of off-road travel. Remember, unexpected things happen on the road. So, before you hit the road, make sure that your 4×4 vehicle is in good shape. After all, you don’t want to get stranded helpless on the road, right? Then, better take [...]
