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  Nissan's New 'Engineering Center' to Develop Green Technologies -- Tech-On! 

  http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20071009/140363/

  Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. has announced the completion of construction of its "Engineering Center," which was began within the Nissan Technical Center in October 2004. Nissan will develop technologies based ... on its "Nissan Green Program 2010" medium-term environmental action plan aimed at reducing CO 2 emission. Positioning the Engineering Center as one of its investments for future that Nissan addresses in line with its long-term prospects, roughly 90 billion yen will be invested for the enhancement of power train development at the Nissan Technical Center and the Nissan Advanced Technology Center completed in May 2007, the reform of Nissan Design Center and other R&D centers. Along with a plan to use the Engineering Center primarily as an automobile development-related office, Nissan provided rooms where engineers and visitors can communicate while directly interacting with automobiles and components and connected the Engineering Center with the Product Planning and Design Center via a wa   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  co2 emission, management, nissan, r&d

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  Boeing thinks big on R&D 

  http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22493932-23349,00.html

  BOEING wants to build a larger research and development presence in Australia to complement its $800 million investment in local defence and component manufacturing businesses. Australia is now the corporation's ... largest footprint outside the US with about 4000 employees scattered around 26 different sites and annual revenues climbing towards the billion-dollar mark. Boeing's military business in Australia is booming - the company now supplies a large part of the RAAF's new airborne capability, ranging from strategic airlift and airborne early-warning aircraft to combat fighters and helicopters. "We are studying having a large R&D presence in the country. There are a lot of unique capabilities in Australia for the Boeing company," Craig Saddler, president of Boeing Australia, told The Australian yesterday. As well as developing its military and commercial aviation businesses, Boeing is teaming with the University of Queensland on researching hypersonic aircraft using scramjet techno   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 28 September 2007, by: Kate Porter  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  boeing, defence, development, australia, communication , investment, manufacturing, r&d, research, transport   [More...] [Less...]