MOLINE, Illinois (July 11, 2014) — The new Ultimate Uptime customizable customer support solution from John Deere is designed to improve customers’ profitability by maximizing productivity and uptime while lowering operating costs. Ultimate Uptime – featuring John Deere ForestSight™ – is fully customizable to every customer and is delivered exclusively by John Deere dealers. “When […]
In a July 10 opinion article headlined, “Congress must move on the Highway Trust Fund,” Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman outlined the risks to U.S. competitiveness if Washington’s leaders can’t fix short and long term infrastructure funding issues. “American companies implement just-in-time inventory and on-demand supply chains. We produce vehicles and machines with greater […]
Megalim Solar Power Ltd (Megalim) – a special purpose company formed by Alstom (25.05%), BrightSource (25.05%), and NOY Infrastructure & Energy Investment Fund (49,9%) – obtained the financing of the European Investment Bank and the Bank Hapoalim for the construction and operation of the Ashalim Thermal Solar Power Station in Israel. This key milestone follows […]
Siemens’ central research department and the electric vehicle manufacturer StreetScooter agreed today to equip an electric car with an innovative electronic and software architecture. The associated technology was developed during the RACE project. Siemens is the consortium leader of the research project, which receives funding from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy. For […]
MERIDA, MEXICO —GE’s Distributed Power business (NYSE: GE) announced today that its channel partner in Mexico, Smith Power Mexico S de RL de CV, will provide its gas engine technology to engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor SEISA for Enerkin SAPI de C.V.’s (Enerkin) new combined heat-and-power (CHP) plant in Mexico. Enerkin is the first […]
NORWALK, Conn. — Twenty leading computer vision and imaging scientists from Xerox (NYSE: XRX) will join their peers from Google, Facebook, Microsoft Research, Amazon and many of the world’s top academic institutions later this month to share their research on making computers more “human like,” mimicking how the brain sees and thinks. Steadily closing the […]
MILWAUKEE, — The acquisition of Air Distribution Technologies by Johnson Controls for $1.6 billion is now complete. Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), a global multi-industrial company, announced in April its intention to acquire Air Distribution Technologies, one of the largest and strongest independent providers of air distribution and ventilation products in North America. Through this transaction, […]
LONDON & MADRID– ACCIONA, a global infrastructure, water and renewable energy group, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (together with its affiliates, “KKR”), a leading global investment firm, today announced a partnership to consolidate and develop one of the largest operating international renewable energy portfolios in the world. Under the agreement, KKR will invest […]
The Board of Directors of Alstom received, on June 20, 2014, an update to the offer from General Electric (GE) to acquire the power and grid businesses of Alstom. It also received on June 20, 2014, a revised proposal from Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The ad hoc committee of independent directors appointed by the […]
NEWARK, NJ – Energy Investors Funds (“EIF”), an energy-focused private equity firm, announced today that two EIF-managed funds have indirectly acquired an additional 50 percent ownership stake in the Newark Energy Center from Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) using a $590 million loan from CrĂ©dit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, GE unit (NYSE: GE) GE Energy […]