More Starters and Generators

Denso brand new catalog

Japan's Denso parts specialist has a new catalog for starters and
alternators announced. The catalog contains 27 new and 39 new starter
generator applications.

Among the new generator applications include Toyota Avensis, Toyota
RAV4, Land Rover and Alfa Romeo Spider Range Rover Sport, the new
starter applications including: Nissan Primera, Nissan X Trail,
Volkswagen Bora and Audi A3.

Denso notes that are his starters and alternators for the aftermarket
all-new, not refurbished products. Denso has a very wide range on
offer, which includes large parts of OE applications. If the extension
of the program is completed, according to information Denso 95 percent
of all Toyota models equipped with its products.

"In recent years we have expanded our range of strong and renewed, and
it also included more parts for the latest vehicle models," said Brian
Veen, product manager for starters and generators at the Division of
Industrial Solutions & Aftermarket Denso.

Stiftung Warentest good energy saving bulbs do not have to be expensive

   * Goniophotometerand photometric test benches for automotive and lighting

DAPD you have to order mercury in energy-saving bulbs do not worry so Stiftung Warentest
Stiftung Warentest has tested solar energy-saving lamps. The quality differences are large. But already there is good lighting at an affordable price. Also to comment on the environmental testers.
In a test of energy-saving lamps, the Stiftung Warentest "very good" to identify "defective" lamps. The best results were obtained by two LED lamps, such as the Stiftung Warentest reported on Thursday in advance of their recent magazine "Test". However, they cost 45 or € 40 - so their use is worthwhile only where they are turned on and often long and so reduce the cost of electricity. Far more cost effective, four as "good" rated compact fluorescent lamps that cost between € 2.29 and seven. "When are the lamps are on sale are huge differences in quality," summarized the tester. "The range of sentences is great."

Test winner, the LED lamps Osram Parathom Pro Classic A 80 MyAmbiance and Philips. As an inexpensive alternative, the testers recommend the Osram lamps and Duluxstar Duluxstar Mini Twist. Almost as good were Go On! from Hagebaumarkt and Philips Tornado Turbo.

Savings of up to 100 €
When testing a total of 20 lamps were compared: 14 compact fluorescent lights and three LED and halogen bulbs. Criteria were the cost of electricity, lighting characteristics such as color reproduction and brightness, durability and the impact on environment and health. According to "test" can mean one mortgages household per year, saving € 100 in electricity costs if it uses energy saving light bulbs.
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The testers point out that consumers need to be concerned about the mercury content of bulbs not worry. LED and halogen lamps do not contain the heavy metal and put in compact fluorescent lamps only a few milligrams. Increasingly, manufacturers were also in place of liquid mercury on solid amalgams. "The bottom line is saving lamps burden the environment significantly less even than mercury bulbs. The reason: Most of the mercury escapes through the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, "said Stiftung Warentest. Cause is the mercury content of coal. The lower the power consumption of a lamp would have, the less coal will be burned. "And the less mercury gets into the environment in this way. Also in terms of the primary energy consumption and climate change, the bulbs are superior to incandescent far. "

SKET - heavy equipment in Magdeburg

The series traces in ruins "out in the Magdeburg district Buckau. Where once provided on a huge production area of almost 13,000 workers for high levels of activity, today dawn only a wasteland and ruins to himself. Here was the headquarters of one of the largest conglomerates in the GDR. There is hardly a family in Magdeburg, which had no relationship to heavy equipment manufacturer SKET. Most family generations working in that factory. SKET was a traditional company - a company that has enjoyed a long history: founded in 1868 by Hermann Gruson, taken over by Krupp and armor forged by the Nazis expanded the war almost completely destroyed in the ruins rebuilt into one of the leading companies of the GDR that needed to compete on the international market. The documentary tells vividly the story and the stories of the Magdeburg industry giants. People - as workers and employees - have spent much of her life at SKET, tell of the great times and many times the difficulties of the factory, from the grotesque and curious, of the human and great on the "SKET family."

 

German economy grows faster than expected

 

BY Ralf Beunink, 15:05:08, 08:44 h, updated 15:05:08, 16:46

 

 

Visitors to the Construction Fair "Bauma 2007" look at the New Munich Trade Fair in the 28th International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Construction Vehicles and maining  Equipment "Bauma 2007" issued on cranes up. (Photo: Reuters)

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Wiesbaden / Berlin / ddp. The German economy is clearly in better shape than expected by many experts and has seen the first three months of this year on a quarterly perspective, the highest growth in almost twelve years. The gross domestic product (GDP) increased from January to March Prices from fourth quarter 2007, seasonally and calendar-adjusted 1.5 percent, the Federal Statistical Office reported on Thursday in Wiesbaden. It was the strongest GDP growth in any quarter since the second quarter of 1996th The German economy was pleased calculated for the full year, but continue with weaker growth than last year.

Economists had forecast on average for the first quarter, only an increase of 0.7 percent. In the fourth quarter of last year, the economy over the previous quarter was up only 0.3 percent in the third quarter by 0.7 percent. For the full year 2007, the increase had amounted to 2.5 percent. Many economists, such as the Chairwoman of the Advisory Council of the Federal Government to assess the overall economic development, Bert Rürup expect, now for the current year with an increase of 2.0 percent.

 

Compared with the same period last year was the GDP in the first quarter of this year increased in real terms by 1.8 percent, shared the statisticians with more. Calendar-adjusted growth was even amount to 2.6 percent. Here economists had predicted only 1.8 percent. This growth has been both by domestic demand as well as on foreign trade.

 

Some industry experts lead the high growth in the first quarter but returned to special factors in particular and expect for the second quarter with a slowdown. Responsible for the increase is therefore especially the mild winter weather, which came mainly benefit the mining equipment industry, and a particularly high number of working days in the first three months.

 

Federal Economics Minister Michael Glos (CSU) considers the growth, however, especially as a result of earlier reforms. "Workers and companies have improved the competitiveness of our economy so that we no longer knocks down every breath of wind. This valuable capital, we must maintain by further reforms to further growth and employment "to create, he said.

 

Similarly, business leaders expressed. "We are pleased that the growth was strong in the first quarter. It confirms our prediction that economic growth in mining equipment can reach up to two percent in 2008, "said Carsten Kreklau, a member of the Executive Board of the Federation of German Industries (BDI).

 

The chief economist of the German Industry and Commerce (DIHK), Volker Treier, spoke of a "strong start". The hard-won competitiveness of German companies offer protection against increased relapse of the economy. This was followed by the Federation of German Wholesale and Foreign Trade (BGA) to. "It's remarkable how robust the German economy is set up. Thus, the order books are full until the second half. In particular, the quality and efficiency characteristics, but also the range of products are for "critical," said BGA President Anton Boerner.

 

used heavy construction equipment

Recompile the company represents the new marketplace for used construction equipment prior to version 5.2 with many new features. Recompile is for 5 years responsible for the conception, planning and technical implementation of the online marketplace.

 

 For 10 years is the Martktplatz for used construction equipment of the company ITO, the international portal for construction equipment and trucks used. During this time, the marketplace has evolved from a standard Web portal to an international construction equipment in the trade of used construction equipment and commercial vehicles.

 

Recently, now is the new version of the online marketplace in www.ito-germany.de online. Apart of course from a more modern design, the main focus was the development on creating a user-friendly site. "Especially to come in as few steps to the result we had at heart.". Another highlight is the growing categories of used construction equipment. The customer can establish various offers, among other things, used mini excavators, used excavators, used dumpers or select and direct contact with the seller. All major manufacturers of construction equipment including Caterpillar, Komatsu, or Vermeer Hitatchi are naturally represented.

 

The new features of the portal are including in the new servers that is edited in a separate server station by the company Recompile and maintained. The marketplace now offers a specially designed video portal in which nearly every article to the appropriate video in the modern HD Ready is to find format. All the software required to view the videos on the web can be downloaded free of charge.

 

 

ITO Germany, the company specializes in the sale of special machinery in the civil engineering field. The focus is on the marketing and trading of used construction equipment for sale such as excavators of all types, the company is in the Lauter Odenwald. Kaiserslautern is located between Lindenfels Bensheim and right on the B47. At about 30,000 m² of storage space are all offered machines and equipment. To transport the equipment, the company keeps in touch with reputable carriers and has its own customs warehouse, which simplifies the export and import duties. Employees and vendors speak a variety of languages such as English, French, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.

 

Italy expects Russia to a "trade Renaissance"

Italy is one of the key-term trade and economic partner of Russia in Europe. The friendly tone between the states is maintained not only in business but also at the highest level. Far is known, for example, the fact that the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wears a jacket he has on Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have given. The image of the far-flung Russian-Italian plans spoiled now the economic crisis, which has a substantial decline in the trade turnover as a result. In an interview for RusBusinessNews said Roberto Pelo, Managing Director of Italian Institute for Foreign Trade in Russia, that the entrepreneurs from the Apennines have to wait for positive signals from the Russian side and expect the revival of the great trade.

- Mr. Pelo, the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade does a great job of developing economic and trade relations between Russia and Italy. What are its main tasks?

 

- Our mission is one hand, the Italian companies in its stable presence (establishment of branches, representative offices, operated by direct investment, opening of brand shops) to help the other, we try to Russian consumers detailed information as possible about the products "Made in Italy" to ask of charge.

 

The Italian Institute for Foreign Trade also makes a great work for the organization of group shows of Italian producers at international trade fairs and exhibitions in Russia and other countries. Visitors to such fairs, such as "CONSUMEXPO", "Mebel", "Upakovka, Metal Working: machines, Tools, etc., are already used, not individual items, but the whole exhibition halls in which the products of the Italian companies will be presented, to see. The Italian Institute for Foreign Trade organizes not only the participation of Italian firms in fairs and exhibitions, it also invites Russian firms operating in these industries to attend these shows, make arrangements for her meetings with Italian producers, seminars, workshops , presentations and press conferences, whose job is to communicate the Russian consumers as much information on Italian equipment, goods and services.

 

For Russian specialists, we organize visits to exhibitions in Italy, study tours and training courses, visits to Italian firms advanced. Russian entrepreneurs can get all sorts of information about earthmoving sectors and activities of Italian companies and place their own offers on the website in Russian www. italtrade .com leave.

 

- Are you satisfied with the work product of the last year?

 

- Yes, very. For we have, despite the economic crisis and the many difficulties in 2009 such important and unique projects such as the mission system can realize "Russia-Italy Business Forum" in April of last year. This event was the largest and best organized event in the last 20 years.

 

The implementation of this forum has found wide attention in the mass media. But I would remind you that it was supported by the governments of Russia and Italy, its organizers were the Italian Ministry for Economic Development, the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade, Italian industrial equipment association Confindustria and the Italian Association of Banks. The forum was held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and held in the Krasnodar region. This is followed by some 1,000 participating Italian companies. As part of the Forum were organized over 7,000 bilateral meetings and signed several important agreements on Russian-Italian economic sectors.

 

In Moscow, the Forum was also attended by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. From the Italian side took part in the forum Claudio Scajola, Italian Minister for Economic Development, and Umberto Vattani, President of the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade. Together with Russian Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko, they continued the work of the Forum in Yekaterinburg. The Italian delegation, which arrived in the capital of the Urals Federal District had about 200 people. From the Russian side took the Forum in Yekaterinburg over 1,000 people, the authorities, organizations, associations and industrial enterprises in the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Kurgan, have argued from the Perm region and the Republic Baschkosrtostan.

 

- The world financial crisis has corrected this work?

 

- We must of course take into account the experiences of crisis. Russia 2010 is not Russia in 2008 and it will never be so. The crisis was once again the instability of the Russian model of development to get to the show. It showed the undeveloped structure of the modern equipment market and the structural weakness of the industrial development. On the other hand, Russia is today, and even more in the future, offer great opportunities to Italian companies. We must correct our actions only from the standpoint of marketing on the Russian market a bit.

 

- Prefer to work, the Italian entrepreneur specific Russian regions where they have it easier, for example? To what extent can be attractive in this respect, the Urals for them?

 

- From For several years, we have long before the crisis, we are working with Italian companies and steer them down next to Moscow and St. Petersburg to regional markets. Particular interest to us not the benefits, but the opportunities that exist. From this point of view seem different regions of the Russian Federation to be attractive. They are namely, Yekaterinburg and the entire region Ural, Siberia and Novosibirsk, Samara and the Volga region, Krasnodar and Kuban.

 

- In which sectors the cooperation with Russia and the Urals for the Italians is particularly interesting? Which industries are the future of Russian-Italian cooperation?

 

- In terms of commercial development, all segments of the consumer market and the machine are exactly the industries in which we can promote the Russian-Italian cooperation. As far as the Urals region, so that what matters is to specific industries. It can practically be cooperating in the entire engineering complex deliveries of construction technology, earthmoving equipment, casting machines. And the consumer goods market in the development of relations in production and supply of clothing, shoes, furniture is very interested.

 

- How to evaluate your professionals: the Italian entrepreneurs interested in the conditions of the financial crisis a bit more for the Russian market or the interest has subsided a little?

 

- The problem is probably not in the financial crisis itself, but in the leadership and organization of the Russian market. In 2009, for example, the decline in Russian exports, the export reductions of other countries has significantly exceeded. This is a bad signal, the Russia of its loyal partners like Italy had communicated. Today is the interest for the Russian market as high, we are all waiting for others, but already positive signs.

 

- You have spoken about the economic forum "Russia-Italy. The Forum has a new interest in the Italian entrepreneurship in Russia aroused? What projects have been started here? If we are planning a similar event at some point again to perform?

 

- The merit of the Forum and its part in the Urals (and it have, as mentioned above Claudio Scajola, Italian Minister for Economic Development, Viktor Khristenko, deputy Russian prime minister, and Umberto Vattani, President involved the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade) is given is to maintain the contacts also and especially in the hard times continue. In 2011, Russia will hold a forum in Italy, and that's a good sign. Russia and Italy are two strategic partners.

 

The information has been prepared together with the PR department of the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade in Russia

 

Mining Equipment little demand

In large drop in sales suffering from the German manufacturer of mining equipment yet - the employers even expect a sales increase for 2009. Which others can currently only dream of. But even here there are not only good news: the industry is struggling with falling orders.

Yet it is the manufacturers of mining equipment reasonably well. Source: dpa
FOOD. In sharp contrast to many other areas of plant and machinery, the German manufacturer of mining equipment not suffer big sales drops. On the contrary, expect around 130 mostly medium-sized companies with 14 500 employees in 2009 with a sales increase of ten percent to around four billion euros. This is due mainly to the high order backlogs and long lead times of up to two years for major projects.

In the orders, the weaker economy, however, is already arrived. "The orders are in the current year considerably, partly decreased by up to 50 percent," said Paul Rhinehart, Chairman of the Association of mining equipment in the industry association VDMA and managing director of the Bochum Gebr Eickhoff Maschinenfabrik. He however does not, that this will hit full in the coming year, but hopes that the producers can keep the revenue substantially. A forecast for 2010, he does not want to.

Problems are mainly exports to the key export markets of Russia, USA, India and Australia. There were drops of sometimes more than 30 percent. The industry is heavily export oriented and has a share of exports in turnover of 86 percent.

Sales to Russia will decline, according to Rhinelander already this year by around 35 percent. Reason, above all the financial problems of the customers, but also marketing difficulties because of the crisis in the steel industry and the fall in commodity prices. Therefore, the association expects for 2010 declining exports to Russia. Even in business with China are on lower sales, as Chinese manufacturers have become serious competitors. Compensation found by the German companies in developing new markets, especially in Central and South America.