Journals By Industry - Manufacturing Sector Performance

Tokyo, Feb 8, 2012 - (JCN) - Furukawa Electric has completed the acquisition of the New York-based second generation high temperature superconductivity wire manufacturer SuperPower Inc. from the Philips group. Through this acquisition,...

Tokyo, Jan 20, 2012 - (JCN) - Toyo Engineering & Construction Sdn. Bhd., a Malaysian subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corporation, has been awarded a contract to build a bioethanol production facility with a...

Toyota City, Feb 7, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Mississippi, Inc. (TMMMS), its vehicle manufacturing plant in Mississippi, United States, added a second shift...

The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) touched a 25-year low of 647 points on Feb. 3, while weak shipping demand and a seasonal boost in capacity last month added to the challenges facing China's...

Under a JV agreement signed in Muscat on May 28, 2005, OORC and the industrial gases giant Air Liquide of France have established Air Liquide Sohar Industrial Gases LLC (Alsig). ORPC and the...

China's steel product output rebounded 1.38 percent month-on-month in December to 71.07 million tons as mills ramped up production after prices recovered from their September slump, Umetal analyst Hu Yanping told Interfax. Output...

Tokyo, Feb 2, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that Toyota Motor Manufacturing Russia (TMMR), its vehicle production subsidiary in Russia, plans to add stamping and resin-molding processes to...

French cement company Incehsa-Lafarge has begun a modernization and expansion of its Honduras plant over the next three years, reports Elfinancierocr.com (Jan. 11, 2012). Juan Martinez, director general of the cement company, said...

With the end of 2011, Puerto Rico should complete its sixth-consecutive year of negative growth with a smaller contraction or, in a best-case scenario, with no (zero) or flat growth, according to local...

Trinidad & Tobago's National Gas Co. and National Energy Corp., Severstal North America, Complejo Metalurgico Dominicano (Metaldom) and Neal & Massy Holdings Ltd signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a feasibility study to...

HEADNOTE According to participants in the Chicago Fed's annual Economic Outlook Symposium, the U.S. economy is forecasted to grow at a pace below its historical average in 2012, following a year with an...

HEADNOTE Companies do not need to make maintenance procedures leading to increased reliability more complicated than they already are Reliability is a term that has become more commonly used in the industry. Many...

ORDERS & CONTRACTS Brazil's tissue producer MiIi has recently acquired a new PM from Voith to be installed at its 1 00,000-tonne/yrTrês Barras mill, in Santa Catarina state. The new PM 7 will...

HEADNOTE Miles Roberts, group chief executive of DS Smith, international supplier of recycled packaging, is RISI's 2012 European CEO of the Year Miles Roberts, group chief executive of DS Smith, international supplier of...

Profit Up in Technology Solutions Segment, Although Thai Floods Hurt Results in Ubiquitous Solutions and Device Solutions Segments Tokyo, Jan 31, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today reported a consolidated net loss...

Muscat is spending over $6.7bn to 2016/17 to raise power generation capacity from about 4,200 to over 5,500MW in 2012 and 6,400MW by 2017. The head of the General Electricity & Water Authority...

Fujitsu Selected for Optical Transport Network and Metro & Core Transport Domains Tokyo, Jan 30, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced the selection of Fujitsu Network Communications as one of AT&T's...

Tokyo, Jan 27, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation today announced global production, as well as domestic sales and export figures for December 2011and for the 2011 calendar year. December 2011...

Construction a cure for crisis, Kazakh president tells nation Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced some grandiose new industrial projects in his annual address to the nation on January 27. These projects, he said,...