Category: Manufacturing

China saw an uptick in industrial output for the second straight month in November, government data showed Saturday, an encouraging sign for officials as they battle stagnant activity. Beijing has, in recent weeks, announced a slew of the most aggressive measures ...

Bolivia said Tuesday it had signed a $1 billion deal with China's CBC, a subsidiary of the world's largest lithium battery producer CATL, to build two lithium carbonate production plants in the country's southwest. Bolivia's state-owned Bolivia Lithium Deposits (YLB) said ...

By Xie Ruohan "Overcapacity” is a word that has dominated the global political agenda this year. In an April visit to China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen privately and publicly raised the Chinese economy’s “imbalances and overcapacity.” Yellen expressed worries that this overcapacity ...

By Marchio Gorbiano Rows of robotic arms move with precision to assemble nickel-based battery cells on the production line at Indonesia's inaugural electric vehicle battery plant, the first in Southeast Asia. After being chosen by ...

Luring more Chinese investment to set up factories in Africa was a major theme of this year's Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit that took place last month in Beijing. While there's some evidence that Chinese manufacturers are setting up shop ...

An Indian factory producing iPhone components was resuming work on Thursday after a fire halted production. This is the third blaze to disrupt Apple's local supply chain since the start of last year. India has pitched itself as an emerging manufacturing ...

By Paulina Abramovich It's the end of an era: after 74 years the blast furnace at Chile's biggest steelmaker will be turned off on Monday, snuffed out by competition from China with the loss of thousands of jobs. ...

For decades, African governments have tried to lure Chinese manufacturing companies to set up factories in their countries with the promise of an abundant supply of low-cost labor. Other than a few high-profile companies, Chinese companies, for the most part, have ...

Saudi Arabia's Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Ibrahim Alkhorayef arrived in Guangzhou last week, a midway stop in an Asian tour that he hopes will help the Kingdom to become a major player in the burgeoning electric vehicle industry. ...

Chile's largest steel plant announced on Wednesday that it had suspended operations because it could not sustain itself financially despite new tariffs on Chinese steel meant to protect local production. The Chilean government described the Huachipato plant's decision as "irresponsible." At ...

By Keyi Tang, Solomon Owusu and Gideon Ndubuisi As African and Chinese leaders prepare for the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), it is imperative to consider the environmental implications of China's growing economic presence in Africa. ...

China’s nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) battery output in June fell 6.8% year-on-year, marking the straight month of declining production. NCM batteries are widely used in electric vehicles in the U.S. and Europe, but less so in China where lithium phosphate (LFP) batteries are ...