The future of advanced automotive manufacturing

With tightening margins and fierce competition in the industry, automotive manufacturers are working heavily on optimising manufacturing processes in order to reduce costs and improve flexibility and time to market.

Thai economy posts brisk 2Q growth

Thailand's economy has logged a second straight quarter of solid growth, buoyed by investment to repair factories damaged by last year's devastating floods and strong domestic demand.

Fluor, AG&P form JV in the Philippines

Fluor, AG&P aim to provide integrated design, modularization and fabrication solutions in the Philippines.

Renewable energy investment in India, China & Brazil

India, China and Brazil are emerging as the stalwarts in the renewable energy of the developing world.

TaipeiPlas 2012: CLF to demonstrate whole plant production system for medical application

Chuan Lih Fa Machinery Works Co., Ltd. (CLF) will mainly focus on its all electric, high power energy saving machines at TaipeiPlas.

China’s Suzhou receives the largest capital investment from Taiwan

Suzhou in Jiangsu Province is the recipient of the largest amount of capital investment from Taiwan, according to a report from Suzhou’s Taiwan Affairs Office.

Indonesia heading for high and sustainable growth: RBS

Indonesia will maintain an annual economic growth rate of more than 6 percent for the next several years, despite concerns on the nation's widening current account deficit, analysts from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) say.

Thai-German Institute adopts CAD/CAM for manufacturing technology

Supplier of CAD/CAM ZWSOFT has been selected as the manufacturing technology training tool for the Thai-German Institute (TGI).

Malaysia's manufacturing sector up 5.2% y-o-y in July

Malaysia's manufacturing sector grew by 5.2% or RM2.6 billion to RM52.5 billion in July compared to RM49.9 billion a year ago on the back of increased sales, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia.

South Africa’s CSIR buys Optomec metal additive system

Optomec announced that the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa has purchased an Optomec Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) system for metal additive manufacturing applications.

Vietnam-Japan-Thailand support METALEX Ho Chi Minh

“First time in Vietnam, Shake Hands with NAO: The World’s Smartest Humanoid Robot”

LANXESS breaks ground for world’s largest Nd-PBR plant in Singapore

LANXESS has broken ground for its new neodymium-based performance butadiene rubber (Nd-PBR) plant in Singapore on September 11.