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Axial Vector and Kirloskar Oil Engines Forming JV for Mass Production of Axial-Type Engines

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Axial Vector will enter into a patent license agreement to the JV on its technology, and will receive a five-year royalty payment in addition to its JV ownership starting with 5% of product sales value. Founded in 1888, Kirloskar Group today is a multi-product, multi-location engineering conglomerate with annual sales exceeding US$1.0

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Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision

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Cotton is typically grown in arid regions converted to farmland; in Uzbekistan, for example, which is one of the world’s largest exporters of cotton, the extraction of water from rivers that supply the Aral Sea is a key contributor to its deterioration and desertification. Biotechnology.

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