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December 27, 2011

Toyota announces 2012 production plans

Toyota is planning to increase production by 24 percent in 2012 as it recovers from the effects of the Japanese earthquake and the floods in Thailand.

The company said it plans to produce almost 8.5 million vehicles next year (Lexus and Toyota brands) and to increase sales by 20 percent to 8.65 million.

Figures released a few days ago show that Toyota aims to increase production in Japan by 23 percent to 3.4 million and overseas by 25 percent to 5.25 million.

October 4, 2011

LAI Games: Timezone

Timezone has a time honoured format but is ahead of the games industry in every important respect, offering value for each dollar the customer spends.

Timezone has a time honoured format but is ahead of the games industry in every important respect, offering value for each dollar the customer spends.

August 19, 2011

Hadley Group

The Hadley Group is the UK’s largest manufacturer of cold rolled steel sections; and its operations in Dubai give it access to the high-growth economies in the east, an opportunity it is seizing with both hands.

January 13, 2011

Trepax Innovation

The 1980s saw the emergence of developing regions, none more so than South East Asia. This brought a rising demand for construction and laid the foundations for Trepax Innovation. Director Paul Greenhalgh gives Andrew Pelis an insight into how the business has evolved.

The 1980s saw the emergence of developing regions, none more so than South East Asia. This development brought a rising demand for construction and laid the foundations for Trepax Innovation. Director Paul Greenhalgh gives Andrew Pelis an insight into how the business has evolved since Thailand’s “Tiger economy” was born.

January 10, 2011

Caterpillar plans factory in Thailand

Caterpillar Inc. announced today that it plans to open a new manufacturing facility in Thailand to build underground mining machinery.

The company will break ground on the new factory in early 2011, with production scheduled to begin in late 2012. The facility will produce a full range of underground mining articulated trucks and loaders, which are used by Caterpillar customers around the world in hard-rock underground mining applications.

November 24, 2010

ABB Australia

As 2009 drew to a close and most Queenslanders were enjoying the Christmas break, ABB Australia pulled off a remarkable feat of engineering collaboration, logistics and lateral planning. Its client, CS Energy, was rather impressed, as John O’Hanlon discovers.

September 2, 2010

Retailers bid for Carrefour assets

Retailers from Europe and Asia are in an auction battle for the south-east Asian assets of the French supermarket chain Carrefour.

The French company put the stores on the market after a strategic decision to withdraw from Asian countries where it stood no chance of becoming market leader.

The portfolio consists of 40 supermarkets in Thailand, 19 in Malaysia and two in Singapore; and is expected to fetch around €780 million.

June 25, 2010

Ford to build $450 million factory in Thailand

Ford Motor Co. has said it will build a $450 million car factory in Thailand, its first wholly owned plant in the country.

The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker will manufacture Focus cars for domestic and export markets at the factory, which is due to open in 2012. The plant in Rayong province, 200 kilometres east of Bangkok, will have an initial capacity of 150,000 vehicles a year.

Some 85 percent of the Thai-based Focus output will be exported, mostly to other south-east Asian nations and to Australia.