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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 [...]

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]

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]

(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 [...]

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]

TOKYO, March 26 Asia Pulse - Autoparts manufacturers rank high on a Nikkei list of companies that have the lowest price-earnings ratios and whose pretax profits are expected to grow [...]

BANGALORE, Oct 6 Asia Pulse - India's National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) will host the third edition of the two-day NASSCOM Engineering Summit on October 12 and [...]

*** ASIA PULSE TENDER *** INVITATION FOR BIDS: HIGH SPEED COLORED NEWSPAPER PRINTING PRODUCTION LINE Country: China Region: Henan Province Bidding Number 0821-0940HNRB0918 Published Date: December 18, 2009 Deadline: January [...]

BEIJING, June 22 Asia Pulse - Canon Inc. (TSE:7751) plans to double its copy machine marketing network in China as it looks to boost sales in that growing market. The [...]

MUMBAI, Jan 9 Asia Pulse - The Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, on MOnday provided greater flexibility to project and service exporters by relaxing norms for inter-project [...]

KOLKATA, Oct 17 Asia Pulse - Engineering product exports are estimated to grow from US$15 billion during 2004-05 to about US$27.4 billion by 2009-10, management consultant A F Ferguson has [...]

KOLKATA, Sept 6 Asia Pulse - Renowned management consultancy firm A F Ferguson has identified certain thrust products and markets that would help improve India's engineering exports in the coming [...]

A piece of encouraging news is coming out of the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) whose new leadership is being looked at with hopes in the face of deepening unemployment of engineers in the country. Now the council, led by Engr Haroon, the supervisors of Engr. Qureshi's era are proposed to be trainee engineers and the pool would be the last two batches passed out of the institutions. Besides numbers and intent of the proposal which may be honest and credible to resolve the issue of unemployment among young engineers, the basic question is how different is this program from Engr. Qureshi's. [Extracted from the article]

Under the PEC Act, only engineers can be appointed to such posts which require the performance of professional engineering work, can only be held by engineers. 1 out of 8 Chief Engineers, 25 out of 53 Deputy Chief Engineers, 334 out of 476 Aircraft Engineers are non-engineers The petition against Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) for its appointments of erstwhile cleaners and helpers on engineering posts has unfolded, yet again, how engineers are being "honored" and engineering perceived in the country. These non-engineers, being appointed as Chief Engineers, Deputy Chief Engineers, and Aircraft Engineers, and who have been given the title of "Engineer" by the national carrier are mere technicians. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the call of the Pakistan Academy of Engineering (PAE) for the country's energy sector be addressed as one entity instead of by various ministries and departments, citing the imbalance the sector is facing from the current situation. It also mentions some the significant energy projects that are presently on hold due to fuel scarcity including controversial mega hydro projects, exploitation of Thar Coal, and coal based power stations at Karachi.

The article focuses on the investments made by Chinese entrepreneurs or China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Pakistan's engineering industry along with Chinese labor which enables the Chinese people to generate revenue while the equity of Pakistan remains stable.

The article reports that Ferris ISD Robotics team earned second place at UIL Robotics State Championships in 2019, with the team having qualified for state and placed second overall.

NEW DELHI, March 5 Asia Pulse - Engineering exporters have sought a technology upgradation fund from Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Budget for boosting competitiveness in view of an [...]