Evolving to serve in the digital age

THERE wasn’t a lack headlines in July 1997. What should have been the big story – Hong Kong’s handover to China by the United Kingdom – was quickly eclipsed by the financial crisis that knocked out Thailand and quickly pummelled more economies across Asia. Industrial projects ground to a halt, banks shut down, and investments dried up.To observers, only China was unmarked by the pounding that the rest of the region was taking.

Avery Dennison poised for growth in ASEAN

The leader in labelling and packaging materials and solutions, expands capacity at its Malaysian plant, with installation of high-speed coating capabilities.

K 2013: Solutions for the automated process chain in elastomer engineering

Six partner companies from Austria and Italy display a “transalpine” process chain for elastomer sealing parts at K 2013

Drilling tough materials

Copper mining expansion continues in Zambia

Algeria signs energy agreement with EU

An energy partnership between Algeria and the European Union, which had been under discussion for five years, was finally adopted.

Hydraulic press rebuilding or retrofitting

Value of MENA rail projects to soar amid network expansion

The value of rail contracts awarded throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) reached US$434 million in the first quarter of 2013, roughly 17 percent of the total US$2.55 billion awarded in the transport sector overall.

Optimising profitability in a changing global market

In recent years, process engineering has been transformed to address business initiatives in the Middle East, including more effective energy management to minimise operating costs, emissions reduction to meet global environmental requirements, more agile supply chains in light of new shale gas and shale oil capacity, and better feedstock selection for refining and petrochemicals operations.

Recent oral care patents

Here we look at the latest patent reviews on oral care.

GCC-China bilateral trade witness upward trend

GCC- China trade reached US$155 billion, while exports from GCC to China were US$101 billion and imports by GCC from China were US$54 billion.

Opportunities in ME’s UAV market to grow significantly