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Hino Motors and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus have announced that they will merge their businesses by the end of 2024. The merger also includes Hino Motors' parent company Toyota…
The presence of collaborative robots is increasing. The number of collaborative robots installed in 2021 will reach 39,000, with a clear growth trend. Collaborative robots do not require safety fences…
Japan and Germany have decided to cooperate in the important technological development of Beyond 5G/6G, the successor to 5G. Research institutes and industries in both countries will conduct joint research…
Mitsubishi Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced on May 29 that they officially signed a contract on the same day for the integration of their power generator businesses. An integrated…
Panasonic Holdings (HD) has decided to concentrate investment in the field of automotive batteries. The maintenance cost of an automotive battery factory in Kansas, USA will reach 500 billion to…
The Japanese ceramics industry is facing a temporary slump in demand for semiconductors and electronic components, but it is showing a positive attitude to prepare for adversity.
According to the Japan Semiconductor Equipment Association, April sales of Japanese semiconductor manufacturing equipment decreased by 0.4% from the previous month to 333.944 billion yen ($3.014 billion), the first negative…
Renesas Electronics announced on the 19th that it will launch a power semiconductor production line using silicon carbide (SiC) at its Takasaki factory in Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture, and will…
Toyota plans to increase vehicle production in India by 30%. At the Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) production base, we will increase production by changing the work shift to a three-shift…
Murata Manufacturing plans to start operation of a new multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) factory in Shimane Prefecture in June. Izumo Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture), a subsidiary…
According to a report compiled by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, orders received by the five major machine tool manufacturers in April were 35,132 million yen, down 9.1% from the same month…