Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A ship's piston with scuffing and deposits. Typically there are around six of these pistons in ship ... [+] engines that could be powerful enough to lift a small car Chevron Marine Newly released images last week reveal the damage being caused by the experimental low sulfur (VLSFO) ship fuel that the global shipping industry was required to use since January last year. How ship pistons should look (i.e., no red, abrasive scuffing). The scuffing and abrasiveness is ... [+] what has led to broken piston rings, which is highly dangerous for ships Read More
Apple Supplier Foxconn To Build $270 Million Plant In Vietnam
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Terry Gou, founder of Foxconn. Simon Song/South China Morning Post via Getty Images Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology, which manufactures electronics for Apple, this week received a license from the Vietnamese government to build a $270 million plant to make laptops and tablets in the Southeast Asian nation amid U.S.-China tensions. The new plant, which will be developed by Foxconn subsidiary Fukang Technology, will be located in the rural province of Bac Giang, just outside Hanoi, and will be able to manufacture eight million units annually, according to the Vietnamese Read More
Why Mask, Gown, PPE Shortages Persist, Even Though Manufacturers Want
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Health care professionals in the U.S. continue to face shortages of personal protective equipment ... [+] (PPE) such as face masks and protective gowns. (Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images) MediaNews Group via Getty Images Help me, help you. That’s what Tom Cruise told Renée Zellweger in the movie Jerry Maguire. That’s apparently what some clothing and other soft goods manufacturers have been trying to ask the U.S. government during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. The trouble is according to manufacturers the response from Read More
With Russia’s Help, China Becomes Plastics Making Power In Pandemic
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin An employee of Sinopec in Xinjiang, China. The state-owned company could be delisted if it does not ... [+] get Sarbanes Oxley compliant (Photo: Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) Barcroft Media via Getty Images After giving up on recycling — American recycling that is — China is still in love with the plastics biz. In fact. their companies are becoming dominant in all things plastic, one of the most important supply chains in the world. In other words, it will be yet another segment in global business that the world will need Chinese companies Read More
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Prince Charles announced a nature pledge for business on Monday, that controversially included ... [+] under-fire British oil giant, BP, accused of not collaborating with the Mauritius oil spill inquiry. Getty Images The British heir to the throne, Prince Charles, made an announcement last week calling for large businesses to make a pledge toward climate and biodiversity. He has called this the Terra Carta, or Earth’s charter, and named it after the 800 year old Magna Carta in England that first enshrined rights under a monarchy. In a speech at the One Planet Read More