Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Steel in Germany” report to their offering. Steel in Germany industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2007-11, and forecast to 2016). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the…

Business Line reported that Volkswagen Group India will showcase the concept of MicroCity a futuristic mobility solution as well as Nils, its concept electric car designed for individual mobility requirements, at the last and 5 leg of the Indo-German Urban Mela due to be held at Pune from Jan 11th to 21st. Mr Alexander Skibbe head of communication for VW Group India said that MicroCity is one of the…

ZF's CEO Dr. Stefan Sommer: "Industrial logics and good possibility to meet increasing customer demands quickly" Strategic investor "Punch" will produce 8-speed automatic transmissions for ZF within the scope of a license agreement Strasbourg/Friedrichshafen. ZF Friedrichshafen AG welcomes the acquisition of the GM plant in Strasbourg by the strategic investor "Punch"; management confirmed agreements about…

German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it has received an order from Austria-based stainless steel producer Stahl Judenburg for the supply of a second bright steel center. The new bright steel center will be able to process bars with diameters ranging between 15 and 55 mm and lengths ranging from 2,500 to 7,000 mm. The new equipment is scheduled to go into operation in June 2013. Stahl Judenburg…

Reuters reported that German steel production will return to modest growth next year as companies rebuild stocks and demand from the automotive and engineering sectors picks up, a trade group forecast on Tuesday. Europe's steel industry has been hit by a slowdown in demand for cars, appliances and new buildings as an austerity drive aimed at reducing budget deficits has hampered economic growth. Germany,…

Progressive automation by 2025: Partial automation possible as early as 2016 More than 1,250 specialists employed by the automotive supplier are already working on automation Increased safety, greater freedom for the driver, improved efficiency: Automated driving will change individual mobility considerably The development of products and systems for automated driving is one of the central themes of…

As partner of the two months long entrepreneurial leadership seminar, Georg Fischer worked together with master students of the ETH Zurich to figure out how Cleantech drives innovation. The results of the seminar will be integrated in the current and future projects of Georg Fischer. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) is one of the leading universities worldwide. The highly demanding…

Reuters reported that Global producers of aluminium ingots are turning away yearly premiums in favour of quarterly pricing for 2013 term shipments to Asia to take advantage of spot premiums that scaled records this year. Traders said that Global producers required buyers in Asia to pay premiums or a surcharge to secure physical metal over the cash London Metal Exchange aluminium price based on the quarterly…

Business Standard reported that several ferroalloy producers and secondary steel makers in Andhra Pradesh has refused to pay power bills due on December 10th protesting the fuel surcharge adjustment being levied across the consumers by the state power utilities. According to the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, with the mills running just at 35% of the capacity due to severe…

Quality and efficiency in the dosing process: these are the aspects under which the StrikoWestofen Group (Gummersbach, Germany) is constantly optimizing its Westomat dosing furnaces. As a result of this development work, the well-known manufacturer of thermal process technology now offers a wide range of supplementary technologies which make the Westomat dosing furnaces even more efficient: an extended…