Items Tagged with 'Chinese manufacturing'

CHANGSHA, China — Zoomlion said it has cut excavator manufacturing cycle time to 6.5 days and achieved a production pace of one machine every six minutes by building a shared smart factory system designed to handle high-mix, low-volume heavy equipment production.

DEARBORN, MI—Ford Motor Co. and China’s Geely Auto are in preliminary discussions for a potential partnership that could see Ford’s excess production capacity in Europe used to build Geely vehicles, sources familiar with the talks told Reuters.

NEW YORK—According to Statistica Inc., BYD Auto Co. has surpassed Tesla Inc., to become the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles.

WASHINGTON—Law firm Wiley Rein LLP has filed trade petitions against Chinese manufacturers of golf carts and other vehicles on behalf of the American Personal Transportation Vehicle Manufacturers Coalition. 

China’s new overcapacity surge will depress global prices and, if left undeterred, will inhibit development of U.S. high-tech industries.

HONG KONG—Windrose Technology, a Chinese start-up, plans to build an assembly plant in Georgia to mass-produce battery-powered Class 8 vehicles.

EDINBURGH—China’s growing dominance in the electric vehicle market will threaten foreign brands and spark global debate in 2024, according to a recent report by energy research and consulting firm Wood Mackenzie.

BEIJING—China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology agency said last week that the country's automobile sector is back to normal, with both output and sales in May increasing more than 50 percent from April. Major suppliers SAIC Motor and SKF concur.