- PLANTS AND PROJECTS
Dow Opens First Commercial Plant to Produce Versify Polymers The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI; www.dow.com) has launched the first commercial plant for its new family of specialty propylene-ethylene copolymers manufactured under the Versify tradename. Launched in February 2004, these plastomers and elastomers offer improved flexibility, softness and other characteristics ......
- Primaloft Plans to Open Third Factory in Germany
Munich, Germany--Primaloft will open a new factory in Goppinger, Germany, in July to support its growing European business, the company announced.
- Portland continues pursuit of Munich, Germany-based Siltronic Corp.
The city of Portland is chasing what would be one giant boost for the local economy - a $466 million wafer manufacturing facility that would generate more than 800 construction jobs and 500 permanent positions. Siltronic Corp., headquartered in Munich, Germany, is expected to make a decision later this month ......
- Portland considered as site for new Siltronic plant
Portland is one of five sites under consideration by Munich, Germany-based Siltronic Corp. for a silicon wafer manufacturing plant that would employ 500 people. Siltronic already employs 1,100 people at a manufacturing facility on Northwest Front Avenue. The new plant would be adjacent to that site. The Portland Development Commission ......
- GM Invests Billions In Germany.
General Motors is considering an $485 million plan to replace its sprawling Opel car factory in Russelsheim, Germany, with a new highly efficient modular assembly factory on the site. New Opel Chairman and Managing Director Bob Hendry, is spearheading the plan, which has the approval of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder....
- Productivity, machinery and skills: clothing
manufacture in Britain and Germany.
PRODUCTIVITY, MACHINERY AND SKILLS: CLOTHING MANUFACTURE IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY 1. Introduction This is the third in a series of comparisons of matched manufacturing plants in Britain and Germany which examine productivity differences between the two countries. The two previous comparisons were based on matched plants in metalworking and woodworking ......
- Designs from the holodeck: Adam Opel is not only
designing futuristic cars, it's designing futuristic factories to
make them, too.
CAR DESIGNERS CRUISE INTO THE 21st century with an array of powerful visualization tools at their disposal. Computer-aided design programs honed during the past three decades have made drafting tables and modeling clay a thing of the past. Manufacturing designers have mastered these tools as well. Now factories are being ......