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...The company said major layout changes would not be necessary, but some extra equipment such as cleaning machinery and for mask production would be needed....
...The US heavy machinery maker sidestepped economic uncertainty, rising raw material costs and supply chain issues to deliver a blowout quarter of earnings on Thursday....
...Apple has also spent billions of dollars on custom machinery to build its devices, developing niche expertise that its rivals did not even know about, let alone compete with....
...The plan highlighted 10 key areas to bolster — from IT, robotics and new energy vehicles, through biotech and agricultural machinery, to aerospace, maritime and railway equipment — and promised to encourage...
...Three quarters of sales come from cars, mining and mining equipment. Its machinery is often used in pits producing thermal coal, a polluting energy source....
...It has been involved in the acquisition of a range of Japanese industrial gems, including Sony’s Vaio laptop business and the defence equipment subsidiary of NEC....
...machinery and production lines, multiple sources familiar with the matter said....
...AWS said it could now offer 40 per cent better price-performance compared to services running on Intel-based equipment....
...Japan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
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...The government has also set up a task force of more than 100 companies to help provide additional supplies of testing machinery and consumables that are in short supply globally, such as swabs....
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...The manufacturer, known for its bulldozers and building site machinery, said third-quarter sales dropped 6 per cent year-on-year, mostly because of weak demand for construction and mining equipment from...
...Meanwhile, higher demand for new equipment, primarily to support road construction, in North America drove revenue in its construction unit up 3 per cent....
...It has now been delayed “indefinitely until the trade war is resolved”, because the additional tariffs imposed will drive up the costs of factory equipment and machinery, as well as products that need to...
...Murakami’s move came shortly after the Japanese maker of industrial machinery spurned a significantly higher offer when it agreed to sell its stake in semiconductor equipment maker NuFlare Technology to...
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...However, some in Japan’s chip equipment industry downplayed the impact of the trade spat....
...Illinois-based Caterpillar, known for its bulldozers, backhoes and other large machinery, faces a slowdown in Chinese economic growth....
...For instance, Tesla could have just got much more efficient at making cars in 2018, therefore extending the life of the machinery....
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...Revenue from machinery sold in Asia Pacific was up 39 per cent from a year ago to $3.2bn....
...One clear takeaway from this chart is electric machinery and equipment (and, to a lesser extent, straightforward machinery) is going to be the sector-to-watch as the trade war deepens....
...Claroty, a start-up specialising in cyber security for the industrial internet, has raised $60m from investors including equipment manufacturers Rockwell, Siemens and Schneider-Electric....
...Harbin Power Equipment and Dongfang Electrical Machinery are now taking business off their European and US rivals in other countries....
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