BERLIN—Bombardier Transportation has secured an order for 130 of its Electrostar rail for the Southern Rail Company in Britain in a contract worth $296 million. The new trains will be manufactured in the U.K. with production starting in the latter half of 2012. Bombardier says it currently...

TORONTO—Canada's largest private sector union has called upon Ottawa to review the purchase of Canada's only locomotive manufacturing plant by U.S.-based Caterpillar Inc. in 2010. The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union says hundreds of jobs at the Electro-Motive plant in London, Ont., are...

Tim Shuttleworth, Eriez President and CEO, announces that Eriez achieved a new record in November for the highest monthly shipment volume in the company’s history. Shuttleworth explains, “This new record beats our previous record for shipments by nearly 20 percent.” “2011...

Mazak has been a part of the Greenspoint District, a community 15 miles north of downtown Houston and minutes from Bush Intercontinental Airport, since 1982. Last June, after outgrowing its original Greenspoint location, Mazak opened a new 30,000 square-foot Southwest facility on 4.5-acres of land...

"We expect a further four per cent advance in 2012, though there is the potential for more downside if the eurozone debt crisis does not stabilize," senior economist and auto industry specialist Carlos Gomes wrote in the bank's Global Auto Report released Thursday."A rebound from this year's...

ESI International, a global project management training company, today announced the findings of a new global study conducted to examine the state of business analysis (BA), a core discipline for translating project objectives into actionable project requirements and deliverables. The study was...

OSHAWA—General Motors is investing $68 million at its Oshawa plant to build its newest Chevy Impala sedan—a move that will save 350 jobs as the automaker streamlines its Canadian operations. The new vehicle will be done at a so-called flex assembly line, a line where the Detroit-based...

DETROIT—The end of the road has come for Ford’s smallest pickup in the U.S. The Detroit-based automaker says it will stop producing its Ranger, which it introduced in 1982 to fight small pickups from Japan. But after peaking in the mid-1990s, sales of the Ranger have fallen over the...

The new premises offer vastly increased floor space, meaning more machines can be accommodated in the showroom, as well as making logistics much simpler. The host of seminars and demonstrations that took place included: “Cutting down on swarf” with a demonstration using the VX12 3-axis...