Manufacturing Company Reports
Sharp Corporation: Bigger Better TV
Sharp Corporation is a company known worldwide for its unique one-of-a-kind electronic products and solutions. Sharp Corporation’s challenge is to create a balance between work time and personal time, with products that can benefit people’s lives at work, at home, and everywhere in between.
Nestlé: Good Food, Good Life
Nestlé is the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company. Nestlé was founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland. Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri Nestlé.
The Timken Company
The Timken Company is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered bearings, alloy steels, and related components and assemblies. Timken’s technologies and products turn up virtually everywhere equipment moves or power is transmitted. By applying its knowledge of friction management and power transmission, the Timken Company helps its customers’ products to run smoother, faster and more efficiently and to deliver unparalleled value and innovation all around the world.
Drug Shortages 2011: Can the Global Market Fix This?
Many reasons have been cited for these 2011 drug shortages. A recent study from the IMS Institute found that health manufacturing problems, discontinuations and suspension of production, inability to meet demand, raw material problems, and contamination or other quality issues are particularly relevant. Business decisions by manufacturers and industry leaders, often involving profitability, also play a key role in shortages, and this issue extends beyond the low return on investment of generics.
Economies Soar with Flying Colors with the Aviation Industry
For those that already have a robust aviation industry, another way to take the aviation industry further is with green aviation. Boeing is taking this idea further by partnering with Hawai’i BioEnergy for the development of a green aviation fuel based on renewable energy sources. The two companies will look at various crops, including sorghum and eucalyptus as potential sources that can be grown locally and converted to green aviation fuel. The collaboration will also look to assess new supporting technologies for additional green aviation production.
Hybrid Vehicle Manufacturing on the Rise
With a growing global consciousness of environmentalism and carbon footprints, comes the growth and opening of various green industries that haven’t previously had a chance. One of those budding green markets is that of hybrid vehicle manufacturing, with production to blossom worldwide with many different countries and companies.
New NASA Earth Watching Satellite Launched
NASA launched an Earth-watching satellite on 28th October 2011, a year after its planned launch. The primary purpose of the satellite is to monitor climatic and weather changes and provide enhanced weather forecasts. The NASA satellite was launched in a Delta 2 rocket a little earlier than 3:00 a.m. on Friday, from the [...]
BMW Races Ahead Of Audi With New 3 Series
Latest automotive news from the constantly changing auto industry reveals stiff competition between auto industry greats BMW and Audi. One of the all-time favorite auto trends, the Audi A-4, now faces some serious threats from the tweaked BMW 3-series.
Tanelec
Produced By Rachel Allen Powering Through… An established leader in Tanzania’s manufacturing sector, Tanelec Limited has been awarded the Tanzanian Presidential Award for the best large electrical manufacturer in the country for the last two years. Tanelec limited commenced its operations in Arusha, Tanzania in 1981 and is the largest manufacturer of electrical distribution transformers [...]
Beating Bugatti Hands Down. Hennessey Venom GT
Mirror, mirror on the wall; who’s the fastest of them all ? Before Hennessey’s dream machine, the Venom GT was introduced, no one would’ve dared question the Bugatti Veyron’s supremacy where being the world’s fastest, hottest, best-looking car was concerned. Seems like John Hennessey has had enough of that. The Veyron-Slayer The guy who’s known [...]
Fabric that Purifies Air: Green Fashion with Catalytic Clothing
When the entire world is thinking up ways of bettering the environment by using technology and methods that reduce air pollution, Catalytic Clothing’s newest foray goes one step further, with their ethical fashion project that purifies surrounding air as one walks along. Ethical fashion, defined as “an approach to the design, sourcing and manufacture of [...]
Android Scores a One Up Over Apple & Microsoft: Google to Buy Motorola
In its largest-ever acquisition deal, Google announced on Monday an all-cash acquisition bid to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion. The move is aimed at increasing the search engine giant’s leverage in the highly competitive mobile computing market. The deal with Motorola would give Google over 17,000 mobile technology patents. At a time when [...]
ITRI comes out with i2R e-Paper which can be rewritten on over 250 times!
After winning the R&D 100 Awards, also known as the “Oscars of Innovation”, for three successive years in a row, the ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) has been awarded this year for two eco-friendly technologies, one of which is the rewritable i2R e-Paper, basically a liquid crystal panel. Promising to be both environmentally friendly and [...]
How the 3D Printed Aircraft Will Revolutionize Aircraft Design Economics..
The 3D printing world has, in recent times, often focused specifically on 3D food printing, while 3D printing involving larger complex mechanical assemblies has been a much less talked about subject. However, the world’s first 3D printed aircraft, designed and flown by engineers at the University of Southampton, promises to be a landmark development with [...]
RISUG. The Single dose, Safe, Reversible Contraceptive Method for Men
Bye-bye Vasectomies (and if women can have it their way, bye-bye oral contraceptive pills too) ! This wonder drug, which has been developed at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, promises to be a much safer, easier and reversible contraceptive method for men, and has garnered widespread global interest. As opposed to a vasectomy, [...]
Aurumania Gold Bike Crystal Edition
Scandinavian company Aurumania’s gold bike crystal edition, uniquely hand-fabricated, plated with 24 carat gold and more than 600 fine swarovski crystals, is the world’s most expensive bicycle. Priced at 80,000 Euros, the company has, to start with, come out with only 10 limited editions of this golden bike. Each bike is hand-built, and then plated [...]
BiPod : The Hybrid Raodable Aircraft by Scaled Composites
Realizing the decade-long dream of the company’s founder and former CTO, Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites, the Californian aerospace and specialty composites development company, unveiled the BiPod, a two-seat, hybrid-electric roadable aircraft. Scaled Composites, founded in 1982, is well-known for air vehicle design, tooling and manufacturing, specialty composite structure design, analysis and fabrication, and developmental flights [...]
Fluorescent Protein to Revolutionize the Process of In Vivo Imaging
In what could possibly be a breakthrough in the process of whole-body imaging, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed the first fluorescent protein, which has been dubbed iRFP, that enables scientists to clearly “see” the internal organs of living animals without the need for a scalpel or imaging [...]
Quarterly Results by Apple: Big Profits from China iPad iPhone Boom
With its third-quarterly earnings statistics showing an 82% increase in revenue, and 125% rise in profits year-on-year, Apple, while releasing these statistics, said that a massive jump in profits in China has contributed significantly towards Apple’s performance. With the released data suggesting that as compared to the 4% revenue share contributed by China over the [...]
