Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Bulgaria’s Cabinet has declared the road from the Danube city of Ruse on the Romanian border to the Makaza Pass on the Greece border to be a project “of national importance” in a long-awaited move. The Ruse-Makaza road linking Romania and Greece through Central Bulgaria is supposed to be part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor No. 9 leading from Helsinki, the Baltic states, Moscow, Kiev, and Bucharest to the Greek port
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Alcoa is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Alumar Environmental Park in São Luis, Brazil, located on the site of the Alumar complex, one of the world’s largest primary aluminum and alumina facilities. This ecological sanctuary, which covers 1,800 hectares (4,447 acres), is an example of Alcoa’s “Smelter in the Park” model of industrial and environmental
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Australia’s parliament yesterday endorsed the world’s first national scheme that regulates the creation and trade of carbon credits from farming and forestry, complementing government plans to put a price on carbon emissions from mid-2012. The laws, the first major bills passed by the government with the Greens’ support in the Senate since the Greens took the
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
NEi Software introduces NEi Nastran in-CAD 2011, an FEA solution delivered in a three-dimensional (3D) environment. With NEi Nastran in-CAD, product design teams can perform FEA pre-processing, analysis and post-processing within the same CAD associative environment. Engineers can use this flexible computer aided-engineering (CAE) solution to work with Nastran data files and perform advanced analysis only
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
NEi Software introduces NEi Nastran in-CAD 2011, an FEA solution delivered in a three-dimensional (3D) environment. With NEi Nastran in-CAD, product design teams can perform FEA pre-processing, analysis and post-processing within the same CAD associative environment. Engineers can use this flexible computer aided-engineering (CAE) solution to work with Nastran data files and perform advanced analysis only
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
SpaceClaim, the market leader in direct modeling software that enables all engineers to work in 3D, today announced SpaceClaim Engineer 2011+, advancing concept modeling and model preparation tools while greatly enhancing robust manufacturing-focused capabilities. SpaceClaim has furthered its industrial-strength capabilities to scale from small engineering firms and job shops to global corporations, making it more
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Rasterex Software is the world leading provider of sophisticated software for raster editing and raster to vector conversion. RxSpotlight is the standalone application for Windows, while RxAutoImage is the complementary solution running directly inside AutoCAD. The license covers both alternatives, so it is up to the users to choose which of the two they prefer to install and use.
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Leading water service providers in the country have been urged to plough back their revenue into catchment protection activities. According to the Tana Water Service Provider chairman Charles Muthuri, the water service providers should resuscitate some of its income to activities such as educating the community on importance of planting trees. “According to research, it is
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Conservation groups are far from pleased with draft sanctuaries for northern Australian waters. Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke released the details today, saying the ocean’s fragile marine life deserved protection. A proposed network of reserves covers global refuges for turtles, dugongs and sawfish as well as the world’s largest breeding and feeding ground for whale sharks. Read
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
For the challenge of “Big Data,” few companies match Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC), one of the world’s largest banks. With 220 million customers and 600 million accounts, the bank processes 200 million transactions daily. To sift through gargantuan volumes of data, the bank relies on software from SAS, the leader in
