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Foxconn boss Terry Gou has reiterated his commitment to building a multi-million-dollar factory in Mount Pleasant, in the US state of Wisconsin.
The chairman of Foxconn, which is better known as Hon Hai Precision in its native Taiwan, met with US President Donald Trump at the White House earlier this week.
After the meeting, media reports suggested that Foxconn will make additional investments in the Wisconsin facility.
Read moreCNBCThe UPS Foundation, which leads the global citizenship programs for UPS, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have announced support for the expansion of a medical drone network into Ghana.
Zipline, a California-based automated logistics company, will use drones to make on-demand, emergency deliveries of 148 high priority products including emergency and routine vaccines, blood products and life-saving medications.
The service will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from four distribution centres – each equipped with 30 drones – and deliver to over 2,000 health facilities serving 12 million people across the country.
[Read more…] about UPS Foundation supports Ghana’s vaccine drone delivery networkAgricultural innovations are essential for feeding our ever-growing global population.
Especially these days, as industrialisation and global warming continue to negatively affect soil fertility and reduce the amount of arable land.
According to the United Nations, the world’s population is set to reach 9.8 billion by 2050.
[Read more…] about Samsung moves into the vertical farming marketUnited Technologies (UTC) has recently launched the advanced projects group within the company, which moves at speed to build and pilot ambitious product and service demonstrators.
The group’s first product demonstrator is a hybrid-electric X-plane under the project name, Project 804.
The number “804” represents the straight-line mileage between the Pratt & Whitney facility in Longueuil, Québec, and the Collins Aerospace facility in Rockford, Illinois.
[Read more…] about UTC begins work on hybrid electric aeroplane
Bosch is entering the market for mobile fuel cells and paving the way for the breakthrough of this technology in trucks and cars.
A crucial component is the stack. As the core of the fuel cell, is converts hydrogen into electrical energy.
To further improve and manufacture these stacks, Bosch has now formed an alliance with Powercell Sweden AB, the Swedish manufacturer of fuel-cell stacks.
[Read more…] about Bosch to cooperate in large-scale production of fuel cells for trucks and carsOn 1 June, Hitachi is to establish a new corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, Hitachi Ventures Fund, and unit, Hitachi Ventures GmbH (HVG), whose responsibility will be to identify and acquire equity interests in fast-growing innovative start-ups globally.
HVG will hire top external talents with experience and capability on CVC activities to invest to and collaborate with start-ups globally.
Stefan Gabriel, former president of 3M New Ventures, is to be CEO of HVG. The unit will start life with $150M.
[Read more…] about Hitachi establishes venture capital fund for start-up partnersThe importance of technology for food manufacturers continues to grow, according to a new ING report, Food tech: technology in the food industry.
The research report revealed the use of robots in the European food industry is becoming more commonplace, with a 50 per cent increase in the sale of robots to the food industry over the last five years.
The research also uncovered the growing demands from retailers and consumers is having an impact on the uptake of technologies like robotics in the industry. [Read more…] about Food manufacturers are turning to robots to meet customers’ needs, says ING report
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers will play a key part in developing smart logistics to link growers with their markets and high-tech methods of growing customised food, with the announcement of the Future Food Systems Cooperative Research Centre.
The Future Food Systems CRC will involve more than 50 commercial and research partners, with the Federal Government injecting AUS$35 million in funding over 10 years along with almost AUS$150 million in support from the research centre’s educational and commercial participants.
QUT’s involvement in the CRC is spread across the centre’s three research and development programs of planning and logistics in linking growers to their markets, developing smart automated indoor cropping and creating nutrient-dense foods and hybrid food and medical goods tailored to growing domestic and export markets.
[Read more…] about Australian university focuses on future food systemsABB has teamed up with Porsche to develop a dedicated high-power charger for Porsche’s electric vehicles in Japan.
ABB has entered into an agreement to deliver its market-leading electric vehicle infrastructure for Porsche Japan’s EVs, including Taycan, the automaker’s first fully electric car, set to enter the Japanese market in 2020.
Under the terms, Porsche Japan will install ABB’s high-power chargers at Porsche Centers and public facilities across the country, creating a network of fast chargers for its electric vehicles. The first installation is set to go live in mid-2020.
[Read more…] about ABB and Porsche to jointly develop electric vehicle chargers
Alstom‘s Le Creusot site in France has unveiled the highest-capacity welding robot in the railway sector, developed and manufactured by its supplier Farman, a subsidiary of the Galilé group, which specialises in robotic installations.
This investment in innovation of over a million euros is aligned with the development strategy for the Alstom site in Le Creusot, the group’s centre of excellence for bogie design and production.
The site’s expertise is deployed in major rail projects such as the new-generation RER and Avelia Horizon, the fifth generation of TGV.
[Read more…] about Alstom commissions the highest-capacity welding robot in the railway industry
