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Industry Focus Areas, Motorized Vehicle, Regulations

Coronavirus prompts automakers to evacuate workers, weigh production delays at Chinese factories

January 27, 2020

Via: CNBC

Automakers are withdrawing employees from China and weighing whether to suspend manufacturing in the country as the virus that emerged in the city of Wuhan less than a month ago ravages the mainland. Most major automakers have restricted or banned […]


Regulations

Manufacturing Exit from China to Dodge US Duties Gains Pace

November 7, 2018

Via: Industry Week

With U.S. levies on $200 billion of Chinese products set to balloon to 25% in 2019, companies on the mainland making everything from car parts to cameras are lining up other production facilities across Southeast Asia. Ayala Corp., the Philippines’ […]


Industry Focus Areas, Medical, Regulations

Tinker, tailor, robot maker: In China, trade war threat casts long shadow

May 4, 2018

Via: Reuters

Those plans are now under threat. The robots, which help develop cell cultures used in stem cell therapies, are on a sprawling list of products threatened with steep U.S. tariffs amid a simmering trade stand-off between Washington and Beijing. The […]


Industry Focus Areas, Motorized Vehicle

Once an industry joke, electric buses start to dent oil demand

April 24, 2018

Via: Automotive News

Electric buses were seen as a joke at an industry conference in Belgium seven years ago when the Chinese manufacturer BYD Co. showed an early model. “Everyone was laughing at BYD for making a toy,” recalled Isbrand Ho, the Shenzhen-based […]


Industry Focus Areas, Motorized Vehicle

BlackBerry software to be used in Baidu’s self-driving platform

January 3, 2018

Via: Reuters

BlackBerry, which has developed software QNX Hypervisor 2.0 to run complex computer systems in vehicles, said Baidu will use its software for its self-driving open platform, Apollo. “By integrating the BlackBerry QNX OS with the Apollo platform, we will enable […]


Process, Production

Chinese Manufacturing Down for First Time in 11 Months

June 2, 2017

Via: Industry Week

China’s factory activity contracted in May for the first time in almost a year, independent figures showed Thursday, hinting at deteriorating conditions for goods producers in the world’s second-largest economy. The figures compare with an official reading Wednesday suggesting China […]