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Optimising engine design with metal additive manufacturing
Global engineering technologies company, Renishaw, worked with engine manufacturing company Cobra Aero, based in Michigan, USA, to optimise its design processes for aircraft and motorcycle engines. After working with Renishaw to develop new... Read more
US to increase beef imports to EU under new agreement
The EU and the US have signed an agreement which will review the amount of hormone-free beef the United States exports to Europe under an existing quota agreement... Read more
US Marine Corps select INVISIO hearing enhancement solutions
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) has selected INVISIO to provide a suite of hearing enhancement solutions over the coming years that will protect Marines’ hearing while increasing their situational awareness in a variety of training and... Read more
Bayer shares soar following report of $8bn Roundup settlement
Shares in German chemical giant Bayer have rocketed by as much as 11% following a report that the company has proposed to pay up to $8-billion (£6.59-billion) to settle more than 18,000 US lawsuits related to its glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup. Read more
France hits back at Trump's 'moronic' wine tax threat
The French minister for agriculture, Didier Guillaume, has hit back at US President Donald Trump's threat last week to impose a tax on French wines, describing the move as "completely moronic." Read more
"Little movement" on EU-US trade talks
The European Commission's new Director-General of Trade, Sabine Weyand, has said that while the EU is keen to work alongside Washington on WTO reform and shared challenges to global trade, the bloc would retaliate is the threat to raise tariffs on... Read more
Bayer welcomes judge's call for reduction in court case damages
German pharmaceutical giant Bayer welcomed a US judge's call to cut a $2-billion damages payout awarded by a jury to a couple in California after having found that the Monsanto produced glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup had been the cause of... Read more
Paper Straw Co & BillerudKorsnäs launch First U-bend paper straw
Swedish sustainable packaging company BillerudKorsnäs, together with the Paper Straw Co, has developed the first functional 180° U-Bend paper straw. The straw is designed for use with individual drink cartons such as juice, milk and water. There... Read more
EU trade gap widens with US & China
The goods trade surplus between the EU and the US, as well as the bloc's surplus with China has increased in the first five months of the year, according to figures released by the EU statistics office Eurostat... Read more
Stadler awards ABB $140m contract for US & European trains
ABB has won orders worth more than $140 million from Swiss train manufacturer, Stadler, to supply state-of-the-art traction equipment for trains and locomotives in the United States and several European countries. The orders were booked in the... Read more
France & Germany could benefit from US-China trade war
The biggest beneficiaries in an escalating trade tariffs war between the US and China could be France and Germany, economists at Barclays have projected... Read more
Pompeo urges Europe to diversify energy supply away from Russia
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged European countries to diversify their energy supply sources in order to reduce, or eliminate dependence on Russia... Read more
Bulgaria receives LNG shipments from US
Last Saturday, Bulgaria began receiving shipments of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from the United States according to Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova... Read more
Harley-Davidson "may consider" manufacturing in Europe over tariffs
In an interview with CNBC, the CEO of Harley-Davidson, Matt Levatich, has addressed the situation regarding the US-EU trade war. The first idea the company had was to move production for the European market to its to Thailand factory. However, if... Read more
Rick Perry: US to sign sanctions bill against Nord Stream 2
The Russian-German pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is set for another round of problems according to the US Energy Secretary Rick Perry. The US has long been critical of the project citing an existential threat to Europe's energy security through... Read more
Trump declares US "energy superpower" at new LNG export facility
US President Donald Trump yesterday hailed his country's emergence as "the energy superpower of the world" during a speech at the opening of a new Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) export terminal in Cameron, Louisiana... Read more
Bayer reels from $2bn Roundup cancer case jury verdict
A jury in California has ruled that Bayer-owned chemicals company Monsanto must pay $2-billion in damages to Alva and Alberta Pilliod, an elderly couple both suffering with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma as a consequence of exposure to the glyphosate... Read more
"Freedom gas": US to double LNG exports to EU
Two Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) orders will be signed in Brussels today by the US energy secretary Rick Perry. The deal is expected to double the US's export capacity to the European Union to an annual amount of 112 million cubic metres as of 2020... Read more
"Mechanical trees" to capture CO2
A Dublin-based company, Silicon Kingdom Holdings (SKH) has announced its intent to begin planting "mechanical trees" in the US. The "trees", developed by researchers at Arizona State University, will suck CO2 from the air and allow it to be stored... Read more
Bayer execs face shareholder revolt over Monsanto losses
In what was an unprecedented show of anger following the losses around the acquisition of Monsanto, shareholders at Bayer have delivered an unprecedented vote of no confidence in the CEO, Werner Baumann, and the company's top management executives. Read more
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