Manufacturing

Werner Co. has acquired 100 percent ownership of Knaack LLC, a unit of Emerson's Commercial & Residential Solutions business.

The acquisition brings to Werner the industry leading KNAACK® and WEATHER GUARD® brands, which will both complement and expand Werner's product offering in the professional channel.

ATMOS Global’s new VerifiedDust platform is a journey in the pursuit and discovery of environmental excellence, says its global president and CEO Dr Orestis Valianatos.

Even though the need to have properly inflated tires is widely understood, it is an area that is often ignored—but there is help at hand.

A tire blowout on a freight truck is disruptive enough, what with time lost for both the driver and vehicle, not to mention irate customers with unfulfilled delivery schedules. But just imagine how much devastation an unexpected tire problem would be on some of the mining industry’s earth moving vehicles.

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has formed an executive committee composed of high-level manufacturing professionals from the aerospace and defense OEMs to assist in the development of AeroDef Manufacturing 2013.

The aerospace and defense event will be held from 19-21 March, 2013, at the Long Beach Convention Center in California. AeroDef has unprecedented support from OEMs to keep the industry competitive in the face of major economic and public policy challenges.

China’s ICBC Financial Leasing Co has signed an agreement with Airbus for a total of 50 A320 aircraft, including 30 A320ceo and 20 A320neo.

The aircraft purchase agreement was signed in Beijing as part of a series of Europe-China agreements signed in the presence of visiting German chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao.

As of 31 July 2012, there were over 700 A320-family aircraft in operation with 15 Chinese airlines.

Larry W. Reaugh, president and chief executive officer of American Manganese Inc., provides corporate guidance for advancing its 100 percent owned Artillery Peak Manganese Project (Mohave County, Arizona) in light of the pending filing of the amended technical report.

Automotive manufacturers want their ERP to be able to streamline business processes, improve collaboration and support them in achieving operational excellence.

By Wolfram Schmid

The automotive industry continues to face one of the most demanding market contexts. Although the prospects for growth are huge in emerging economies, automakers and their suppliers are suffering from aggressive competition, shrinking traditional markets, increasing production costs and chronic overcapacity.

A relative newcomer to the tire business, Eurotire is making room for itself in a crowded marketplace.

Imagine the situation: a new name in off-road tires for the mining industry is trying to break into a market dominated by three of the biggest brands in the world. At the other end of the spectrum, customers are losing faith in unknown brands thanks to masses of inferior Chinese tires flooding the market and failing to live up to expectation.

Ireland’s Greencore Group has acquired International Cuisine Limited, a private label chilled ready meal business, from the Hain Daniels Group in the UK.

International Cuisine Limited’s ready meal facility is based in Consett, County Durham and the majority of its revenue (approximately £45 million) is derived from several existing Greencore ready meal customers.

Dr Tawanda Mushuku, managing director of UAC Foods, is putting in place a firm strategy for creating a world class manufacturing, sales and marketing business in Nigeria.