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Tellumat gears up for 2010

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu  
As South Africa’s infrastructure and capacity build-out for 2010 accelerates, tech innovator Tellumat is adding steadily to its already impeccable tech supply credentials.
The company’s standing in telecoms, defence and electronic manufacturing and supply continues to grow, with a formidable increase in its portfolio of products, services and capacity over the last few months.
Thursday 26 June, 2008 10:37 AM
 

Engineering more efficient systems

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker  
There is this sort of belief floating around that the increasing costs of energy are going to drive increases in efficiency, and so this is a good thing.

This is a belief that is held by economists, tree huggers, joe public, and in fact just about everyone who isn't an actual engineer.

All it takes is US$200 bbl oil and Ford will stop making Suburban SUV's and start making Volkswagen Rabbits... The ONLY reason Ford don't make a VW Rabbit now is no one would buy one... allegedly... no engineer believes this for a second.
Thursday 26 June, 2008 02:35 AM
 

Germans trade on hot reputation in cooling China

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery  
 BERLIN,  - If the U.S. economy slows, China suffers and so do the German firms that supply the Chinese with manufacturing machinery. Right?
Not necessarily.
Some German firms that supply Chinese industries with export exposure are indeed suffering as the U.S economic downturn lowers U.S. demand for Chinese products, and in turn Chinese demand for the German capital goods used to make them.
Wednesday 25 June, 2008 10:33 PM
 

1000th non-contact measuring system sold

Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne  
 Vision Engineering has despatched its 1000th Hawk non-contact measuring system to a fresh food packaging firm, Cryovac, to measure packaging film.
Wednesday 25 June, 2008 06:05 AM
 

First SIPA Press Manufactured in China

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator  
SIPA enters the market for horizontal presses for PET and PP preforms with its first model of a new family of machines manufactured completely in the Hanghzhou plant in China, where the company has been manufacturing dies for blowing and preforms since 2006.
Wednesday 25 June, 2008 12:23 AM
 
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