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ENGINE MANAGEMENT
BY KATE REW
A NEW engine management control system, which for the first time uses cylinder pressure sensors, has been successfully demonstrated by a consortium led by UK engineering consulting company, Ricardo, with the collaboration of DaimlerChrysler and a high-tech Swiss company, Kistler.…
BIODIESEL
BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
SOUTH Africa’s first bio-diesel refinery is to be built in Isando, near Johannesburg at an estimated cost of Rand 83 million, (US$9.7 million). The refinery is expected to produce 60,000 tonnes of diesel fuel annually for either the local market or for export.…
SIEMANS-YAZAKI
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the creation of three joint ventures by the German company Siemens VDO Automotive AG and the Japanese company Yazaki Corporation, who want to combine their electronic electrical distribution systems operations for passenger cars. The deal would create two new companies handling the sale, programme management and development of these systems, for Siemens and Yazaki customers in Europe and the USA.…
WTO COMPONENTS
Keith Nuthall
A DEAL has been stuck at the World Trade Organisation’s goods council, which will extend the time that eight developing countries can erect trade barriers to restrict the import of components for automobile manufacturing, to promote local engineering companies.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Parliament today, (Wednesday), approved the creation of a new European Aviation Safety Agency, (EASA), but extended the proposed legislation to include the setting up of a new independent authority similar to the US National Transportation Safety Board to investigate aircraft accidents and make recommendations.…
VOICE SERVICES
BY KATE REW
NEW automated interactive voice services will soon be introduced to the airline industry, following the forming of an alliance between travel technology, distribution and marketing company Sabre Holdings, which runs Travelocity.com, and voice application network provider, Tellme Networks, both of the US.…
DANUBE/VOLGA
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is to lend Viking River Cruises US$15 million to acquire three cruise ships to ply the Danube and Volga rivers. The Scandinavian/Dutch owned company is the world’s largest river cruise line with a fleet of 30 ships operating in European and Russian waterways.…
WIND POWER
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
TRD Industries Co. Ltd., of Japan, has developed a wind power system for lorries, where several units of compact propellers and generators are fitted on the cab roof. The resulting electricity powers the air conditioning, saving fuel.…
BERTELSMANN-MONDADORI
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a planned Spanish publishing joint venture between Germany’s Bertelsmann and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SpA, of Italy, combining all the book publishing divisions and imprints in Spain and Latin America of Random House and Mondadori.…
ESA PROJECTS
BY JONATHAN THOMSON AND KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency is embarking of the development of a raft of new challenging projects, all of which are open to British involvement, notably a mission to Mercury – which could use the services of the University of Leicester Space Instrumentation Group.…