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The information contained in this nearly 70-page, data-packed Statistical Profile presents a composite picture of IndustryWeek’s Best Plants winners and finalists for the past five years from 2012 to 2016.
Indian energy demand is set to jump four-fold within 25 years but its creaking system is hampered by power theft and dwindling coal supplies, a report said April 3. The energy sector needs up to $10 billion of private investment over six years...
As part of its ecominagination program, over the next two years, 148 GE industrial manufacturing plants and warehouses will undergo lighting retrofits that could reduce annual lighting energy costs at each facility by 50%...
The U.S. government on March 29 tightened fuel economy standards for trucks, sports utility vehicles and minivans. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said the move is expected to save 10.7 billion gallons of fuel over the lifetime of the...
Russia will build two large-scale gas pipelines to China within five years, the head of Russian gas giant Gazprom said on March 21, after signing a deal with China's biggest energy firm...
Germany said March 14 it would invest 500 million euros (US$600 million) over the next decade in developing vehicles powered by hydrogen, considered one of the energy hopes of the future. ...
Service is becoming "super service" as machine tool builders and other production equipment vendors innovate a new competitive model. No longer a tired after-sales routine, service is now the strategy that builds and establishes reputations, sells...
