Stadco is to establish the first dedicated body-in-white stampings and assembly facility in Russia.
The 30-year concession to run Britain’s first high-speed railway, High Speed 1 has been awarded to a consortium comprising Borealis Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan for £2.1bn.
Energos plans to invest £40m in a renewable-energy facility at Knowsley Business Park in Merseyside that would convert leftover, non-recyclable waste into electricity for up to 10,000 homes.
ITT Corporation is to acquire Buffalo, New York-based International Motion Control for $395m.
The Hydraulic Filtration Division of Parker Hannifin, the world’slargest manufacturer of motion and control technology, hascomplementary products specifically designed to provide aneconomical and...
A report by the Institution of Civil Engineers claims the UK lost £1.8bn in 2007 due to a stop/start approach to planning essential infrastructure projects, and could be losing £8bn by 2015
Hynix Semiconductor, the Korean DRAM maker, is to pay a $185 million fine for participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the multi-billion dollar DRAM market.
Advanced CNC technology is helping to cut costs and move the UK metalworking industry into areas that are less sensitive to threats from low-cost overseas competition. Mark Venables reports.
A robot bee that can crash into walls and collide with other objects without being damaged is believed to be the first microrobot powered by soft actuators to achieve controlled flight.
Achieving positioning in motor drive systems used to require a separate motion controller. More recently servo drives have offered integrated positioning saving on purchase cost, installation time...
