Nissan-Renault and Mitsubishi have announced a news strategic global strategy. As a result of this alliance, which aims to generate a more efficient use of available resources, each company will focus on specific regions and markets. While Renault will be in charge of Europe, Mitsubishi will handle the Southeast Asian markets and Nissan will concentrate on the North American region. Nissan currently has production plants both in Mexico and the USA and an engineering development facility in the USA. According to the new strategy, each company will develop a “pilot/mother” vehicle platform which

Due to the spread of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19, the outlook for 2020 set out at the beginning of the year is now moot. An exogenous shock is hitting the USA and the global economy as a whole to an unknown extent. What is special about the new economic crisis is that there have been simultaneous supply and demand shocks which have commanded not only a reduction in jobs, output, and revenues but also a strong volatility and enormous losses of value on the financial markets. As a result of these shocks, the post COVID-19 manufacturing ecosystem is expected to create a paradigm shift both

Italian tissue manufacturer Sofidel Group anticipates an early June grand opening for its $360 million plant in Inola, a spokesman for the company said. A total of 350 people will be employed at the 1.8 million-square-foot facility, which is expected to be fully operational by sometime this summer, spokesman Enrique Garay said. In terms of sheer size, Sofidel’s footprint is among the most spacious in the state. It is smaller than the four-story Amazon fulfillment center (about 2.5 million square feet of workspace) scheduled to open in Tulsa late this year. But the Rogers County facility is 38%

Bovone, an Italian manufacturer of machinery and technologies for the second processing of flat glass and natural and synthetic stones, has selected Rockingham County and Reidsville, North Carolina for its first North American headquarters. The company’s product lines are structured in two main areas of excellence: the product line consisting of stand-alone machines, grinding, bevelling, and washing of glass and stone; and the product line dedicated to complete plants for the silvering (coating) and layering of glass. These two areas are integrated to create the fully automated BRS Bovone

Enel is fastly expanding in the renewable energy market in the USA and Canada thanks to its subsidiary Enel Green Power North America. Its latest achievements include the addition of 50 Megawatts generating power to the High Lonesome, Upton, Crokett County (TX) wind park, whose total power generation capability now totals 500 Megawatts - the largest in Enel’s renewable energy portfolio worldwide. Most recently, Enel connected two wind power parks in Riverview, (105 Megawatts), and Caste Rock Ridge, (phase 2, 29.4 Megawatts) (AB) in Canada. These projects are meant to supply clean energy to

Soliani, since 1984 leader in the production and sale of electromagnetic shielding articles, has specialized over the years in a wide range of solutions that are used in various sectors: aeronautical, defense, naval, industrial, space, automotive and medical. Its products - certified to the highest international industry standards - include, Faraday bags, conductive adhesives and sealants, shielded rooms, automatic deposition of conductive silicone, EMI/EMC fingers strip, shielded honeycomb air vent, EMI shielded windows, EPDM conductive gasket EMC/NBC, electrically conductive silicone gasket

Since its inception, in 1987, Gorreri has been striving to provide advanced and customized processing technology and solutions for the baking industry. The more challenging the task the better Gorreri is able to deliver. From complete lines to dosing, cutting, mixing, filling, writing and printing systems and solutions. For the production of cupcakes macarons, brownies, eclairs, pies, cheesecakes and more. Any Gorreri equipment is engineered and manufactured following a specific constructive philosophy that makes unique and inimitable our products: Optimize is better that wasting space and

OMAP Tools was among the first companies in Italy to specialize in the production of rotating modules and construction elements for the machine tools industry. That was back in 1970. Now, 50 years later, the company has become a beacon for motorized tool holders, angular heads and tool holders in the steel, wood & alloys industries, collaborating with the major CNC machine tool manufacturing companies worldwide. This thanks to its uncompromised commitment to advanced technology, reliability and quality which encompasses all the phases of its products lifecycle. In order to better serve and

Dr. Francesco Donatelli, an Italian-trained Associate Professor at the Department of Anesthesia at the Montreal General Hospital was searching for help designing and manufacturing a non-invasive oxygen therapy hood, modelled on the helmets used by doctors in Italy, to treat the country’s devastating number of COVID-19 patients. The helmet used in Italy’s hospitals is made of lightweight, rigid plastic. It can be used for non-invasive ventilation and CPAP therapy (continuous positive airway pressure). Patients who wear the hood are still able to speak, drink and listen. Since the respiratory

AMUT continues to thrive and grow in North America thanks to if focus on PET recycling and post consumer products technology. “We just started the commissioning of two new PET Recycling Plants for Post-Consumer plastics at INDORAMA ECOMEX division for their VIRGIN PET plants.” Says Anthony George, President of the North American division of the Italian AMUT Group. “Indorama is the world’s largest fabricator of PET Resin and these are the second and third that they have purchased. The fourth is now being fabricated by us in Italy to be installed later this year in the USA. That will bring their