- Matsushita plans $2.3B PDP fab
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. http://www.panasonic.net , best known by its Panasonic brand name, and diversified chemical group Toray Industries Inc. http://www.toray.com this week announced plans to spend about $2.3 billion (280 billion Japanese yen) to build a new plasma display panel (PDP) manufacturing facility in Japan. The plant will ......
- Eurostrip: -- initial operation results at Krefeld,
Germany. (Stripcasting).
Cooperation between members of the three major strip casting projects undertaken in Europe has lead to the setting up of a new joint venture called `Eurostrip' to exploit the technology. A pre-industrial plant built in Germany is producing good quality 304 stainless strip. After over a decade of intense research ......
- Shanghai Krupp signals confidence in China.
(Asia).
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuangdi recently visited Shanghai Krupp Stainless to witness the production of the first cold-rolled stainless steel sheets from the Chinese-German steel joint venture. Schroeder congratulated the start of production saying that the success of the project has sent a signal that Germany ......
- CM Black Leads Plant Expansion Efforts
Cabarrus Plastics, Inc., a division of Commercial Vehicle Group, selected CM Black Construction Company, Inc. as the negotiated general contractor for its 60,000-square-foot manufacturing and warehouse expansion project. The addition, which is designed to hold larger tonnage machinery, will boost Cabarrus Plastics' warehousing and manufacturing capacity to approximately 150,000 square ......
- SHIFTING TO OVERDRIVE
HEADNOTE COMPANY TO WATCH: HYUNDAI MOTOR/SOUTH KOREA South Korea's Hyundai Motor is stepping up its globalization campaign. In late June it revealed joint-venture plans with China's Guangzhou Motor Group to produce trucks and buses in China. The two partners will build a plant in the port city of Huadu, Guangdong ......
- Supply and Demand.
As the auto industry goes global, companies are gaining business, building plants across the world and creating joint ventures. Following are the most recent changes. NORTH AMERICA Venture Buys Peguform Venture Holdings Trust of Detroit, Mich., signs an agreement to purchase Peguform GmbH, Botzingen, Germany. Peguform is a supplier of ......
- SteelCorr flat mini on track to start in Mississippi
at close of 2007: John Correnti, former CEO of Nucor and later of
Birmingham Steel has won the backing of Russian steelmaker Severstal and
German...
While it has been a long time coming--over two and a half years--veteran steel executive John Correnti has finally got the green light to start construction of his new mill in Lowndes County, Miss, that he believes will usher in the next generation of steel production facilities. When it starts ......