Fisker Automotive named Valmet in Uusikaupunki, Finland, to build its $80,000 Fisker Karma sports car, a plug-in hybrid. With just over a year to go before the Karma is supposed to go on sale, there's not much time. In other words, with apologies to John Lennon, it better be an...
(Metso Corporation Press Release on June 26, 2008 at 1.00 p.m.) Porsche AG announced today that they will not renew the currentassembly contract with Valmet Automotive. Porsche's announcement isnot estimated to have any short-term impact on Valmet Automotive'soperations as the Uusikaupunki plant will continue to manufacturePorsche Boxsters and...
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-26 June 2008-Porsche decides not to renew car assembly contract with Finland's Valmet Automotive IncC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Finnish engineering and technology group Metso Corporation (OMX Helsinki: MEO1V) said on Thursday (26 June) that the German car maker Porsche has decided not...
Canadian researchers report that a gene variant that seems to affect the severity of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder did not help them predict which patients are likely to respond to a class of drugs widely used to treat the disorder. The lack of a connection between the variant and response...
Metso has concluded an agreement to increase its ownership in theChinese joint venture company Valmet-Xi'an Paper Machinery Co. Ltd.from 48.3 per cent to 75 per cent by acquiring all the shares ownedby Finnfund, and part of the shares owned by the other joint venturepartner, China National Building Material Company Group....
Irving CTL contractor Timberline Logging increases production nearly 50% by moving to a newer, bigger harvester. When Timberline Logging, of Wallagrass, ME, learned that rates were being cut by its customer, Irving Woodlands, the two-man company didn't panic. In fact, it did quite the opposite. The...
According to anba: Currently, 22 Brazilian companies are registered at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Yemen as suppliers of products to the country. They include producers of car parts, cooling equipment, tractors, engines, machinery and equipment, wooden doors, sweets and food in...
China's Foshan Huafeng is already planning to boost capacity on its newly installed board machine, PM 3 NO SOONER HAD Foshan Huafeng Paper celebrated the startup of PM 3 at its Zhuhai mill, Guangdong province, than the Chinese firm announced plans to increase the capacity of the...
Marco Marcheggiani, president, Tissue Business Line, Metso Paper, is as international as the products he represents. Born in Montreal into an Italian family, raised in French-speaking Quebec, having worked in Italy for a Finnish company, and today a U.S. citizen living in Knoxville, TN, he brings a cultural sensitivity to...
Abstract What amount of extra energy can be generated after subtracting the total energy consumed to produce the biomass energy? Knowing the ratio between energy output and input is a valid question when highly mechanized systems that consume fossil fuels...
METSO'S LEO ALLO PASSES AWAY Leo Allo, Senior Vice President, Communications, Metso Paper, passed away on November 4 at the age of 61 in Helsinki, Finland. Leo was part of Valmet Paper Machinery and Valmet Paper right from the start of the company. In 1987,as an...
FINLAND Leo ADo, Metso Paper's senior vice president, communications, passed away on Sunday, November 4,2007, at the age of 61, at the Meflahti Hospital in Helsinki, Finland. An experienced journalist and communicator, in 1987 Allo joined Valmet Paper Machinery, taking responsibility for marketing and communications at...
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-23 November 2007-Finland's Lannen Tractors OY to acquire Lundberg Hymas ABC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Lannen Tractors Oy, a Finnish manufacturer of specialised machinery and equipment for earthmoving and waterway and environmental works, said on Thursday (22 November) that it has signed an agreement to acquire...
Leo Allo has died! The news hit me a like a truck. It can't be. My good friend succumbed Nov. 3, suddenly and unexpectedly, to complications following what was to be only a routine surgical procedure. It didn't seem possible. Grief merged with memories...
CHINA The Hong Kong-based containerboard producer Hop Fung has started installing a 200,000 tonne/yr recycled linerboard machine, PM 2, at Its mill in Qingyuan city, Guangdong province. Trial runs are scheduled for the end of this year, with commercial production set to follow in early 2008. ...
LYON, France -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the worldwide automotive industry is now available to its catalogue. Passenger Cars http://www.reportlinker.com/p053783/passenger-cars.html This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Passenger Cars Production and Annual Sales in Thousands...
If it looks like a Galil and functions like a Galil, is it a Galil? Nope, it's a Golani Sporter, named after Israel's Golani Brigade instrumental in selecting the Galil after conducting extensive field-testing with it. After a long absence from the surplus pipeline, a Galil clone...
Abstract A field-based study was performed to broaden our knowledge of harvesting productivity, cost (stump-to-truck), and log value recovery between cut-to-length CTL and whole-tree WT harvesting working side-by-side in two mixed-conifer stands in northern Idaho. Each site included two...
Byline: Lillie Guyer As the auto industry retrenches in Europe and North America with job cuts, downsizing and plant closings, the supplier parks question also hangs in the balance. Supplier parks are clusters of suppliers located close to assembly plants...
Story and photos by Associate Editor Jorina Fontelera The advent of digital presses, with their fast turnaround time and sheet formats, brought new challenges for specialty paper, film and board converter Connemara Converting (Bolingbrook, IL). Suppliers of substrates used for digital presses were...
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