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Honeywell Automation India appoints Atul Pai as Managing Director | Autocar Professional

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“Atul brings more than two decades of Honeywell experience in various regional and global roles across Honeywell and its finance division. Atul’s deep understanding of our business combined with his extensive expertise in building automation will be invaluable for HAIL.”

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MassCEC Approves $5M Forgivable Loan for A123 Systems; Targeted at Expansion for Grid Storage Systems

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The company anticipates making $80 million in capital expenditures in Massachusetts to build up its manufacturing and R&D capabilities there by the end of 2014. Under the terms of the MassCEC financing, A123 will double its Massachusetts employment to more than 500 by 2014.

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Video-Game Engineer Sushama Chakraverty Answered the Call of Duty

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Back in 2001, she spotted a poster on her professor’s door advertising for an internship, and she applied without knowing the company she’d be working for. But as her degree program came to a close in 2001, Chakraverty was undecided about her next move. “I It turned out to be Atari , the legendary video-game company.

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A mini industry spawns under the hood of a booming car market – ET Auto

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Furthermore, the demand is only going to rise with the building of trust in this new market as it gets more organised over the years. Back in 2001, Maruti Suzuki was one of the first players in this segment with its True Value channel, enabling trust and breaking stereotypes attached to the purchase of ‘second-hand’ vehicles.

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The Real Story of Pixar

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Rather, the original spark often comes from a university lab , a renegade group at a large company, or a hobbyist building stuff for fun. The tools to build it emerged piecemeal. Catmull and Blanchard had been involved with software designed to build 3D geometric objects at the University of Utah. It had to be hardware.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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We couldn’t afford to pay [US] $350 to buy a machine at that time, so we had to build our own,” he says. At the talk, he met Joel Snyder , who was 2001 IEEE president and “built up a very personal relationship with him,” Gaynor says. Gaynor’s hands-on experience and love of engineering led to a successful career with 3M in St.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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Taking legal action over the ZEV mandates would be a repeat of the late 1990s: automakers filed a federal lawsuit that led California to water down its ZEV requirements beginning in 2001, thus effectively ending most automakers electric vehicle (EV) programs for more than a decade. batteries, electric drive systems, etc.),

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