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India Targets $35 Billion of Foreign Investment in 2008-09
Before the global financial meltdown, India received a record $14.6 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) from April to August 2008, a 124 percent rise compared with $6.5 billion in the same period a year ago, reports Industrial Info Resources…
Boeing's Potential Losses Amount to Nearly $4 Billion Amid Ongoing Strike
The ongoing International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) strike, along with supplier issues and internal delays, have led to a 38 percent drop in profit for The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL) for the third quarter of 2008. The…
OMAX® Corporation Named to 2008 Inc. 5000 List
OMAX® Corporation (Kent, WA) has announced its placement on the 2008 Inc. 5000 list. Regarded as the most comprehensive look at the entrepreneurial engine that drives the U.S. economy, the annual list recognizes and ranks the country's 5,000 fastest-growing private…
Ballard Power, IdaTech and ACME Collaborating in Indian Fuel-Cell Deal
Ballard Power Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:BLDP) (Burnaby, British Columbia), a global leader in the development, manufacture, sale and servicing of hydrogen fuel cells, has entered a three-way agreement with IdaTech LLC (Bend, OR) and the ACME group (Gurgaon, Haryana) to supply…
Sandvik Adds 51 Jobs in North Carolina Plant
Sweden-based Sandvik Inc. plans to add 51 jobs to its Mebane, NC plant in the next three years and invest $85 million. Mebane is located about 20 miles north of Chapel Hill. The plant currently has 160 employees. Sandvik received…
OSHA Proposes Regulations on Shipyard Working Conditions
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is hosting public hearings to propose new regulations related to shipyard working conditions, according to Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX). OSHA, a part of the Department of Labor, exists to assure safe…
Des Moines Area College Completes Robot Training Certification
FANUC Robotics America, Inc. (Rochester Hills, MI) has announced that Rick E. Wagner, professor of electronics at Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) has successfully completed Certified Education Robot Training (CERT) requirements. DMACC is the first school in the country…
Manufacturers Ready to Buy Despite Stock Market Woes
DEARBORN, MI, October 21, 2008 ? In contrast to the grim financial news from New York and around the world, an unprecedented number of attendees filled the halls on opening day at the 2008 FABTECH International & AWS Welding Show,…
Wausau Provides Blast-Mitigating Curtainwall for the Richmond Federal Courthouse
Wausau Window and Wall Systems (Wausau, WS) provided a curtainwall system meeting the security requirements established by the U.S. government for the largest courthouse project ever undertaken by the Mid-Atlantic Region of the General Services Administration (GSA), the new Richmond…
HEAVY DUTY ALLOY MUFFLE FURNACES
Lucifer Furnaces, Inc. offers a complete line of large alloy muffle furnaces. The 5000 AM models are equipped with a corrugated alloy retort which separates the chamber refractory and heating elements from the workload and atmosphere to minimize scale and oxidation.
TRUMPF Announces New Names for Power Tools Products
TRUMPF (Farmington, CT) has introduced a new naming convention to enable immediate recognition of all TRUMPF electric, battery and compressed air power tools. All products will have the name of TruTool, followed by the core name. For example, the N…
American Welding Society Publishes Resistance Brazing Specification, AWS C3.9M/C3.9:2009
The American Welding Society has published an AWS C3.9M/C3.9:2009 specification to standardize resistance brazing process requirements and control braze joint quality for all applications requiring brazed joints of assured quality. This specification establishes the minimum fabrication and quality requirements for…
