In 2015, China announced its manufacturing strategy plan: Made in China 2025. Directly inspired by the German concept of Industry 4.0, the initiative is a roadmap for China to transform itself into a manufacturing powerhouse by focusing on productivity.
The UK’s Tech Rocketship Awards offer Australian and New Zealand technology scale-ups a new launch-pad for their global expansion.
A BREXIT trade minister rubbished claims that Britain will struggle to replicate its trading relationship with the EU after Brexit with other countries around the world, insisting that trade consultations had already been opened with "large-scale" deals on the horizon.
TOKYO -- Nidec will spend roughly 50 billion yen ($450 million) to acquire five German robotics companies by the end of March, going after cutting-edge technology fueling the global shift toward automated manufacturing.
Broad agreement on what would be the world's biggest free trade deal is expected to be reached at a leaders summit in Singapore in November.
Peter Ryan, formerly Ireland’s Deputy Consul General in New York, is, from today, Ireland’s first resident ambassador in New Zealand reports the Irish Echo.
The strategy is set to help Wales become a world-leading export nation, boosting productivity, wages and job creation across the country
France is planning to introduce a penalty system in 2019 that would increase the cost of consumer goods with packaging made of non-recycled plastic report PackagingNews..
Tactics range from using free-trade zones to bonded warehouses report Andrew Mayeda and Mark Niquette for IndustryWeek.
Palace of the Alhambra, Spain
By: Charles Nathaniel Worsley (1862-1923)
From the collection of Sir Heaton Rhodes
Oil on canvas - 118cm x 162cm
Valued $12,000 - $18,000
Offers invited over $9,000
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242
Mount Egmont with Lake
By: John Philemon Backhouse (1845-1908)
Oil on Sea Shell - 13cm x 14cm
Valued $2,000-$3,000
Offers invited over $1,500
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242