Organized by the business association ACICAE for the sixteenth time, the award recognizes persons or companies that have made a special contribution to the competitiveness of the automotive industry. At a ceremony held at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, this year it was the turn of Rheinmetall subsidiary Pierburg S.A. The award acknowledges Pierburg’s contributions to innovation in the automotive industry,…

„The Team behind ACS-Advanced-Core-Solutions achieved the 2nd place in the automotive cluster for their innovation of electric sand core hardening at this year IQ Innovation Award. More than 150 innovations have been submitted for 5 industry clusters. The award ceremony took place in Leipzig (Germany) in parallel to this year's GIFA. The award ceremony was located at the Paulus Church in Leipzig and…

KUKA awards prize for outstanding innovations in the field of state-of-the-art mechatronics: the automation experts will present the prestigious KUKA Innovation Award to young researchers at Hannover Messe. Five teams will be demonstrating their “Advanced Mechatronics” concepts at the KUKA booth over the course of the trade fair. A jury of experts will then select the winner. Bernd Liepert, KUKA Chief…

The foundry becomes greener Modern design for a modern production environment: the dosing furnace Westomat Plus+ was awarded the prestigious “Good Design Award” of the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. In everyday foundry work, the new system not only has a smaller footprint – it also consumes less energy. The manufacturer of industrial furnaces StrikoWestofen (Gummersbach, Germany)…

When a company is honored for its work six times in a row, it makes you sit up and take notice – especially when it happens in a sector in which the company is one of the smaller players: The foundry in Nordwalde employs just 100 people. Hengst Filtration works on state-of-the-art filtration concepts at 20 locations worldwide with more than 3,000 employees. The products are used in a wide range of…

also avaible in AWEBA Udo Binder sustains AWEBA’s managing director Dipl.-Ing. Udo Binder Click here to enlarge Udo Binder (graduate engineer) bolsters “AWEBA Werkzeugbau GmbH Aue”’s managing director. AWEBA ranks amongst the biggest independent tool- manufacturing companies in Europe. The 50-years old tool-manufacturing academic is in charge of the technical fields and production, a duty which lied on a…

Toledo (OH, USA) - More than two-thirds of the work force at General Motors Corp.'s Toledo Powertrain plant will be temporarily laid off beginning Monday because a strike at an axle supplier has shut down several GM assembly plants. Powertrain workers in Toledo were informed yesterday that the plant would suspend production of its four-speed transmission next week, affecting close to 1,300 of the plant's…

President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on the establishment of a steel production complex in Azerbaijan with state-owned equity on Tuesday. The enterprise is a closed joint-stock company engaged in the design, construction and management of the complex, covering all stages -- from iron ore mining to steel production in the country's second largest city, Ganja, and the Dashkesan region. It is charged with…

By Aynur Karimova Azerbaijan and Iran will construct a railway to carry a capacity of 5 million tons of goods. This was envisaged in a Memorandum of Understanding signed during a joint meeting of the Economic Committee of Iran and Azerbaijan in Tehran, Iranian media reported on October 10. Azerbaijan and Iran also agreed to establish a joint working group to discuss actions for linking railway lines as part…