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US companies are increasingly turning to offshoring their functions to achieve cost savings, and few plan to bring those jobs back to the United States, the Conference Board said Monday.
The number of US companies with a corporate offshoring strategy in place more than doubled in the past three years, according to the fifth annual report on offshoring trends, published by Duke University in collaboration with the Conference Board. |
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Tuesday 4 August, 2009 05:16 PM |
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Arup is a global engineering consulting firm. Outstanding solutions, innovation and value characterise its work and the company aims to provide a consistently excellent multi-disciplinary service worldwide.
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Tuesday 4 August, 2009 03:15 PM |
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FLSmidth has received an order worth approximately 100m Danish kroner from Anrak Aluminium Ltd., India for a gas suspension calcination system. The equipment is for Anrak's 1.5 million tonnes per year alumina refinery project located 65km from the city of Visakhapatnam in the east Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
The contract includes design, engineering, and supervision for the entire equipment package. The scope of supply comprises a gas suspension calciner, hydrate storage and reclaiming equipment, pan filters, baghouse filters, a pipe conveyor and a material handling system for two 25,000 tonne silos. |
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Monday 3 August, 2009 09:23 PM |
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When the Edward Lowe Foundation , which supports and recognizes second-stage entrepreneurs, cited 50 Colorado companies as “major powerhouses when it comes to job creation,” a yurt manufacturer and one of its customers both made the list. |
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Monday 3 August, 2009 01:19 PM |
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India's software and services exports are seen rising 4 to 7 percent in the year to March 2010, sharply slowing from past years' robust growth on sluggish demand for outsourcing services, an industry body said on Wednesday. Export of software and back-office outsourcing services will rise to $48 billion to $50 billion in this fiscal year, up from $46.3 billion last year, the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) said.
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Thursday 30 July, 2009 07:07 PM |
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As Honda Motor (HMC) announced plans in mid-July for its 2010 hybrid vehicles, the company introduced a leader with a hybrid role: Takanobu Ito, its new president and chief executive, is also Honda's director of research and development. The decision to take on multiple roles while steering the automaker through the worldwide downturn is strategic. "The direction of the business and the direction of the technology need to be aligned as early as possible [in my tenure as CEO] so that we can maximize efficiency and effectiveness," Ito told BusinessWeek. |
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Thursday 30 July, 2009 01:25 AM |
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Welcome to a Shanzhai tech market in Shanghai, China. Shanzhai is the Chinese term used inside the middle kingdom for counterfeit or copied goods. The direct translation of Shanzhai (山寨) is "mountainvillage" and is used to refer to the small, low-quality factories in southern China. It's a blanket term for a range of counterfeit goods ranging from designer bags and clothing to tech gadgets, cars (even Formula One race cars) and helicopters. |
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Sunday 26 July, 2009 05:18 PM |
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Huawei may be the best company you've never heard of, and that's a big problem for China. Founded in 1988 by a former People's Liberation Army officer with less than $4,000 in startup capital, Huawei has grown from a small importer into a growing giant—revenue rose 43 percent last year to more than $18 billion—now poised to overtake Nokia Siemens as the world's second-largest maker of telecom hardware, after Ericsson. Even a decade ago, China watchers were touting Huawei as one of the companies most likely to become China's first big global brand. |
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Sunday 26 July, 2009 01:13 PM |
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Like the F-22? Don’t like the F-22? Think we need more F-22s? Think 187 F-22s is about the right number? Believe we need the capability the F-22 brings to the fight, or think we don’t. The U.S. Senate’s vote Tuesday of 58 -- 40 to stop F-22 production at 187 aircraft is the next to the last nail in coffin of the Air Force’s premier fighter program. A House-Senate conference still has to agree on the final result, but it seems like a long shot that the program will be continued. |
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Friday 24 July, 2009 03:31 PM |
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Egyptian cheer for Plexus Eskom seeks to claw back costs as Medupi price tag rises to R120bn UAE Nuclear Energy Push May Start Gulf Contract Bonanza Chinese firm wins Algerian rail contracts Panel awards contracts for drainage projects Aldar appoints contractors to build 5,000 villas in UAE Aecom Wins 2 Middle Eastern Contracts U.S. Army Works to Get Prototypes to Soldiers in the Field ASAP improvements on Timmins Area Highways Begin Foreign firms eye Obama rail plan Alaska Department of Natural Resources awards Baker in-state gas line contract Oman Infrastructure Report Q1 2009 - Companies and Markets New Analysis Systematic Pressures Behind US Military And Covert Action MENA could Earn $90 Billion Annually from Desertec Solar Power Project Fuel Tech Announces Two FUEL CHEM® Orders; Represents Initial TIFI? Applications in the Republic of Korea FLSmidth wins cement contracts in Uruguay
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Tuesday 21 July, 2009 11:48 AM |
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B-K Office Supply Inc . in Winchester has been providing cubicles and office furniture for the Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Program Center since it moved from Mount Weather to Frederick County in 1984. |
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Tuesday 14 July, 2009 10:11 AM |
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AN unprecedented wave of investment is under way in Australia to develop new sources of water, including desalination and recycling plants, totalling an estimated $40 billion.
At this level, water experts said the level of investment was second only to that in the mining sector.
Just as the global commodity boom drove the mining sector to invest, water experts say climate change is driving investment in water projects around Australia. |
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Friday 10 July, 2009 11:02 PM |
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Areva SA , the largest builder of nuclear plants, is seeking to use a lead in its home European market over Toshiba Corp.’s Westinghouse Electric Co. to gain an edge in the $1.05 trillion of global contracts up for grabs.
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Thursday 9 July, 2009 01:56 PM |
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Latest worldwide engineering contracts - think outside the square for engineering work and jobs > Thiess's Gorgon LNG project contracts now worth $1bn > DynCorp International shares up on U.S. Army work > United States DoD contracts for July 8, 2009 > Stellar awarded military contracts for projects on six bases totaling nearly $70 million > Fencing the Kingdom: EADS Lands Huge Saudi Border Deal > Canada to spend C$5 billion on military vehicles > PetroSA awards contracts for October shutdown > COSL signs contracts to commission building of deep water geophysical and survey vessels |
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Thursday 9 July, 2009 09:28 AM |
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Looking for work ? There is a need to think outside of the square - The World is indeed a global village Major Contracts are constantly being issued - Now is the time to know what and where the jobs are going to be The following is a selection of contracts which have just been awarded - > Tecnimont Wins Borouge-3 Engineering, Design Contracts > Costain wins £297m nuclear contract > Maire Tecnimont wins orders worth 44 mln euros > Samsung Engineering Wins $2.6 Billion Algerian Order > US$9.6bn Aramco JV signs deals with contractors > United States DoD contracts for July 7, 2009 > Xodus Group secures major engineering contract with Maersk Oil > BRAC awards $18.5 million contract at Lackland AFB > Three Abu Dhabi contracts for Gifford > Solyndra , Inc. Signs Sales Contract for $238 Million
and there are plenty more coming along - most days |
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Wednesday 8 July, 2009 10:46 AM |
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With each opening and closing , like a slowly blinking eye, the giant door at Derecktor Shipyards' harbor side boatworks has provided glimpses of the progress the workers have been making the 281-foot Cakewalk V.
The name itself could be ironic or predictive for the future of the Bridgeport boatyard. If it gets good marks, it could lead to more jobs. If it's a dud, well, Derecktor might find it anything but a cakewalk when it comes to the mega yacht market. |
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Sunday 5 July, 2009 07:32 PM |
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Independent engineering and environmental consultant Gifford has won three new engineering design projects in Abu Dhabi. |
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Sunday 5 July, 2009 01:28 PM |
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The phones are ringing off the hook at Captain Steve Wirsching’s office. Building contractors are calling and e-mailing him about the bonanza of construction projects slated for Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base and Coronado Navy Base. |
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Friday 3 July, 2009 12:41 PM |
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India's second largest commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland is looking to spin off its design engineering unit Defiance Technologies into a group company, Defiance Tech Ltd, an official has said. |
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Friday 3 July, 2009 11:31 AM |
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MEED reported that Doha is to issue fresh tenders for the first part of the phase-3 of the USD 11 billion New Doha International Airport project by the start of July, having cancelled the original tender in March in a bid to cut costs. |
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Sunday 28 June, 2009 07:13 PM |
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