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TOKYO, Feb 4 Asia Pulse - Japan's Oji Paper Co. (TSE:3861) said it will shut down some production equipment for printing paper and corrugated-board paper at two factories in Shizuoka [...]

TOKYO, Feb 22 Asia Pulse - Oji Paper Co. (TSE:3861) and Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. (TSE:3865) have each placed an order topping an estimated 15 billion yen (US$125.03 million) with [...]

SHANGHAI, April 8 Asia Pulse - Siemens (China) Ltd has announced that it has received several million euros worth of order from Hainan Jinhai Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. Siemens [...]

SHANGHAI, Oct 25 Asia Pulse - Voith Paper, one of the world's two paper-making equipment giants, will invest more to expand its production base in Kunshan, east China's Jiangsu Province, [...]

TOKYO, April 4 Asia Pulse - Chemical producers, paper companies and other power-guzzling materials manufacturers in Japan are expected to suffer the most this summer from electricity shortages caused by [...]

SHANGHAI, Jan 25 Asia Pulse - Shanghai-listed paper maker Mudanjiang Hengfeng Paper Co., Ltd. announced on January 25 that it will invest 24.06 million yuan (US$3 million) to launch a [...]

*** ASIA PULSE TENDER *** Invitation for Bids: pulp paper integration advanced culture paper Bidding Number: 0677-1140J1221828/01 The Abstract Contract Type: Goods Catagories: [Machine & Electronic] Bidding Agency: Shandong Zhengxin [...]

TOKYO, Oct 24 Asia Pulse - A Kyoto University research group has designed a robot that can fold sheets of paper into origami figures. Dexterity of this kind can be [...]

NEW DELHI, Oct 3 Asia Pulse - Notwithstanding volatile market conditions, India's BHEL (BSE:500103) has filed initial papers with regulator Sebi for the follow-on public offer that will see the [...]

JAKARTA, Dec 15 Asia Pulse - Indonesian firm PT Fajar Surya Wisesa (JSX:FASW) said it will spend around US$85 million next year on new paper making machine. Fajar Wisesa Director [...]

*** ASIA PULSE TENDER *** Invitation for Bids: paper offset press Bidding Number: 0637-114001010203/02 The Abstract Contract Type: Goods Catagories: [Printing & Packaging] Bidding Agency: Guizhou Pengye International Machinery & [...]

*** ASIA PULSE TENDER *** MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TOKYO TO PROCURE HEAVY-DUTY PAPER SHREDDER AND RELATING EQUIPMENT The following is a procurement notice published in the Kampo Japanese government [...]

NEW DELHI, May 4 Asia Pulse - India's Tecpro Systems, which provides turnkey solutions in material handling, is planning to tap the capital market and has filed a draft prospectus [...]

SYDNEY, Aug 26 Asia Pulse - Australia's largest independent ATM provider Cashcard is getting ready for an initial public offering to raise up to $A300 million ($US194.4 million), the Australian [...]

TOKYO, Aug 30 Asia Pulse - Japan's Oki Electric Industry Co. (TSE:6703) in December will launch Chinese sales of cash-handling machines that automatically bundle large quantities of paper money. Oki [...]

SYDNEY, May 6 Asia Pulse - Australian timber and paper manufacturer Papyrus Australia Ltd (ASX:PPY) hopes banana regions around the globe will use a mechanical banana harvester it has developed [...]

SHANGHAI, Sept 11 Asia Pulse - Hubei J.S. Machine (SSZ:000821), a Chinese manufacturer of paper product packaging machines, is planning to enter into the auto casting parts market. The company [...]

NEW DELHI, Oct 5 Asia Pulse - India's Department of Heavy Industry is in the process of appointing two more independent directors on the board of Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL, [...]

HCM CITY, July 24 Asia Pulse - The China Machinery 2008 exhibition (Chinamac) kicked off in Ho Chi Minh on July 23. More than 200 leading Chinese groups and enterprises [...]

HANOI, July 1 Asia Pulse - More than 200 leading Chinese groups and enterprises in various industries will participate in the China Machinery 2008 exhibition (Chinamac) scheduled to be held [...]

BEIJING, Sept 26 Asia Pulse - The surging costs of raw materials, fuels and power are believed to affect the profit of China's booming electric machinery industry. Statistics covering 56 [...]

HANOI, Aug 3 Asia Pulse - Vietnam's first international mechanical and metallurgic exhibition fair will be organised in Hanoi from December 14-17, according to the Vietnam Association of Mechanical Industry [...]

HANOI, March 25 Asia Pulse - After a sharp decline last month, Ha Noi's industrial production in March was estimated to increase 21.6 per cent compared with February, according to [...]

SHANGHAI, Aug 17 Asia Pulse - Diversified US manufacturer 3M Co on Monday said there will be no change in its investment plans for China as its unit here performed [...]

CANBERRA, Australia -- The following information was released by the Australian National University: New research has highlighted some of the barriers faced by individuals from minority groups when it comes [...]

Such fabrics often make use of phase-change materials (PCMs) that can store and later release large amounts of heat when the material changes phase (or state of matter, for example, from solid to liquid). Textile engineers have developed a fabric woven out of ultra-fine nano-threads made in part of phase-change materials and other advanced substances that combine to produce a fabric that can respond to changing temperatures to heat up and cool down its wearer depending on need. [Extracted from the article]

(Full text of a statement. Contact details below.) LONDON, (BUSINESS WIRE) May 3, 2006 - OKI Printing Solutions today announced its new advanced range of digital LED colour page printers [...]

(Full text of statement. Contact details below.) LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2006--OKI Printing Solutions today announced its new range of unique digital LED colour page printers, the C5600 and C5700, which [...]

In the experiments, the number of variables was the same each time the AI restarted, but the specific variables were different each time. A precursor step to understanding physics is identifying relevant variables. [Extracted from the article]

NEW DELHI, Feb 16 Asia Pulse - Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma will soon release three strategy papers aimed at increasing exports of labour intensive engineering goods that [...]

(Full text of statement. Contact details below.) MEDIA RELEASE PR26832 Avoiding the Pitfalls of Autoclave Validation MELBOURNE, July 11 /Medianet International-AsiaNet /-- White paper discusses tricks, traps and tips for [...]

(Full text of a statement. Contact details below.) BANGALORE, India, June 7 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ - Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in semiconductor design software, today recognized the outstanding papers [...]

NEW DELHI, April 28 Asia Pulse - India should aspire to achieve a three-fold increase in its engineering exports to US$110 billion by 2014, according to an Ernst & Young [...]

TOSHIBA TO MARKET LAPTOP WS FOR EUROPE, US 11/09/90 TOKYO, JAPAN, 1990 NOV 9 (NB) -- Toshiba has revealed a plan to market its RISC (reduced instruction set computer) laptop […]

TOKYO, July 1 Asia Pulse - Voith IHI Paper Technology Co., a joint venture of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. (TSE:7013) and German papermaking equipment firm Voith AG, is promoting papermaking [...]

Discusses several factors which caused the shortages of scientific, technical, engineering and mathematics personnel in the U.S. Percentage of foreign-born scientists and engineers in the U.S. who are master's-degree holders according to the Science and Engineering Indicators 2004 report issued by the National Science Foundation; Estimated increase in science and engineering jobs by 2010; Out-of-state tuition and fees charged to international students in California. INSET: Page Wars: Global Competition Heats Up Over Scientific Papers.

In sum, the people of Pakistan will continue suffering no matter what climate change has brought for them in the shape of high temperatures and also as Engineer Khurram Dastagir put it, sacrifice for the industry that is running with zero load shedding. Despite Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif's directive for energizing the power plants shut down in the country, the situation does not seem to be improving for two major reasons. Khurram Dastagir said this week that Pakistan's electricity demand increased by 30 percent during the year taking it to the historical peak of 30,009 MW on June 30, while generation remained at 21,842 MW. [Extracted from the article]