March 27, 2012
General Motors has announced that it will invest over US $1 billion in its Australian GM Holden operations over the next 10 years after securing Australian government support to help it keep its plants open until at least 2012. ... Read more »
March 21, 2012
A new report from IHS Automotive forecasts annual auto sales in China will grow by 74% to more than 30.6 million vehicles a year by 2020 states AutoNewsChina. The figure will be nearly twice that of the US in 2020, which is forecast at 16.8 million units ... Read more »
March 21, 2012
French nuclear energy group, Areva, has announced that it will sell its 26% share in Eramet to Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement (FSI), a French investment fund, for €776 million. Eramet, the French mining and metallurgical group, employs around ... Read more »
March 21, 2012
Located at the University of Sheffield, UK, the Mercury Centre’s new Additive Manufacturing suite has been designed to demonstrate the latest near net shape manufacturing technology. The centre will open its ... Read more »
March 20, 2012
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) based in South Africa and its industry partners, the Department of Science and Technology (DST), National Research Foundation (NRF), Aerospace Industry Support ... Read more »
March 20, 2012
Alan Lawley, professor emeritus at Drexel University, USA, and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Powder Metallurgy, has been selected to receive the 2012 Kempton H. Roll PM Lifetime Achievement Award by the Metal Powder Industries Federation ... Read more »
March 20, 2012
Molycorp, Inc. has announced that Molibdenos y Metales S.A. (Molymet), the world’s largest processor of the strategic metals molybdenum and rhenium, has agreed to invest approximately $390 million in Molycorp ... Read more »
March 14, 2012
Thermal Technology LLC, based in Santa Rosa, CA, USA, is currently building a 100-ton, 36,000 amp direct current sintering (DCS) system for a US research organisation. The DCS Model 100-36 ... Read more »
March 14, 2012
Markus Ber, Plant Manager at Miba Sinter Austria in Vorchdorf, has been appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer of Miba Friction Group as of April 2012. Ber will be responsible for the worldwide production and purchasing activities of this division. ... Read more »
March 14, 2012
Hitachi Chemicals Co. continued to experience a harsh operating environment in the third quarter of its financial year from October 1 to December 31, 2011. The company reported an 8% ... Read more »
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