Goodrich Corporation has been chosen to provide the air data system, ice detector, windshield ice protection controller, and the fuel quantity gauging and control system for the new Embraer KC-390 military transport aircraft.

Initial hardware deliveries are expected to begin in 2013. The systems will be provided by Goodrich's Sensors and Integrated Systems teams in Minnesota and Vermont.

Blackland Aerospace, LP, the aerospace component manufacturing platform of Dallas based private equity firm, Blackland Group, LLC, has acquired Lewis Machine Company.

Based in East Hartford, Connecticut, Lewis Machine specializes in manufacturing complex precision-machined components for clients in the commercial and military jet engine, airframe, missile and power plant industries.

Multinational construction group Lend Lease today announced the award of a A$210 million contract for the Caval Ridge Mine project in central Queensland owned by the BHP Billiton-Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA).

The contract will be delivered by Abigroup, a member of Lend Lease's Australian construction business.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett today cut the ribbon on Pratt Industries' new corrugated box plant, a facility that will bring at least 125 new jobs to Lehigh County.

The company established the new plant in Macungie to service its northeast United States customers. It will receive rolls of 100-percent recycled paper to convert into boxes and customized point-of-sale materials.

Gatwick Airport has signed a deal with Air China, which is seeking to expand its London network.

China’s national flag carrier will operate a non-stop service from Gatwick to Beijing International Airport four times a week. The Airbus A330-200 aircraft will depart Gatwick at 1300 on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, arriving at Beijing airport at 0620 local time the following day. Return journeys will leave at 0135 and touch down at Gatwick at approximately 0550 the same day. Monday’s flight will start operating from the beginning of June.

The new Humber River Regional Hospital will be North America’s first truly digital hospital. Dr. Rueben Devlin, president and CEO and Peter Bak, information, communications, automation and technology strategy officer, explain their vision to Richard Halfhide.

It may not be quite the highest mine in the world, but Los Bronces in the Chilean Andes has its own set of challenges for its new general manager Sam Rasmussen, as Alan Swaby learns.

Readers of this publication will be long familiar with arduous mining ventures. Normally, this means somewhere miles from nowhere in some hard to reach corner of the country. But in the case of one of the richest copper mines in the world, all the challenges and feelings of remoteness stem from the fact that it lies some 11,000ft above sea level.

After exciting exploration results from the fluorspar veins at St Lawrence, Newfoundland, CEO Lindsay Gorrill and chairman Richard Carl talk to Gay Sutton about financing the first mines through the Newspar Partnership with Arkema, and using this as a springboard for developing a much larger mining complex.

Fluorspar must be one of the world’s best kept secrets. Few outside of specific manufacturing sectors are aware of its importance, but for those who are, the race is on to find new supplies.

Extending its Smarter Commerce initiative, IBM announced a definitive agreement today to acquire Tealeaf Technology, Inc., a leading provider of customer experience analytics software that helps organizations react more swiftly to consumer trends in today's digital marketplace. Financial details were not disclosed.

The need to deliver a seamless mobile experience has become increasingly critical to chief marketing officers (CMOs) with global online commerce expected to hit $1 trillion by 2014 and mobile commerce $200 billion by 2015.