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The year 2020 will be a tricky one, that’s for sure. Nevertheless, the Covid-19 outbreak won’t prevent completely the hottest manufacturing trends from happening and affecting the way industries will be evolving. In fact, the current situation might even accelerate some of them, making them widespre...

Here and in the following weeks we publish an in-depth analysis of the global chemical sector, written by Joseph Chang, Global Editor, ICIS Chemical Business. We think it’s a very interesting contribution, in an era featured by the coronavirus outbreak as well as a significant fall of oil prices. &n...

CECE Annual Economic Report. An expected moment, for a sector that was recovering shares after the recession after 2009, which this year contrasts with the explosion of the economic crisis due to the lockdown to stem the Covid-19. CECE Annual Economic Report Let’s read the macroeconomic foreca...

Volvo and Covid-19. The Swedish mood Volvo and Covid-19. The Swedish group alerted its employees to the outbreak of the virus and was not unprepared. The first objective is health protection. We asked them for their impressions of this difficult time. VOLVO GOES AUTONOMOUS! The Volvo Group has been ...

Kohler and Covid-19   Kohler and Covid-19, in other words the challenge of the restrictions due to the global outbreak. We asked Kohler how they’re dealing with this moment and how they’re going to get through it. Was the need of getting protective measures an obstacle to guarantee ...

Danfoss acquiring Eaton Hydraulics has been a primary event in the last few months talking about hydraulic components for mobile machines. Such an acquisition is supposed to change indeed the global framework of a crucial sector. We reported the news some weeks ago, right after the official statemen...

BorgWarner and Delphi: a star of propulsion strategy is born   BorgWarner and Delphi. Despite the dramatic recession on a planetary scale, because of Coronavirus, the policy of aggregation among the big players continues. After Tenneco and Federal Mogul and Parker and Eaton Hydraulics, it is th...

Kubota 130 years. The Japanese company was founded by Gonshiro Kubota   Kubota 130 years. Happy birthday, Kubota! 130 years have passed since its foundation, in Osaka, Honsu Island, Japan. One of the world capitals of the endothermic engine, hosting, besides Kubota, also Yanmar. Kubota celebrat...

ZF financial results have been released a few days ago. The year 2019 was quite a stable one, with some concerns about the overall turnover and EBIT margin. The current year will be a tricky one, due to the coronavirus outbreak and its consequences on production and global economy.   Let’s star...

Al Masaood Power Division currently represents three main brands in power generation (Mtu, Volvo Penta and Leroy Somer, the latter for alternators) in the UAE and in Bahrain. At Middle East Energy 2020, the Al Masaood booth hosted Volvo Penta newest genset engines. We’ll talk about them later on. In...