Singapore - A German firm has opened a plant on Singapore's Jurong Island to provide oil additives to the Asia-Pacific region, company officials said Wednesday.
The plant, operated by Evonik RohMax Asia-Pacific, is the local subsidiary of Evonik RohMax Additives GmbH.
"We can expand capacity quickly when the need arises and market demand grows," general manager Bonnie Tully said.
The plant, which opened Tuesday, includes a production unit, laboratory and logistics unit.
Berlin - The German airline Lufthansa AG cancelled long-haul flights Wednesday for the first time as a pay strike by ground and cabin staff entered its third day.
The services union Verdi said about 5,000 workers had joined the strike Monday and Tuesday, causing the cancellation on Tuesday of 70 domestic and European flights.
Lufthansa said it expected eight long-haul flights to be cancelled Wednesday. In addition, 70 shorter flights would not take off because the required aircraft had not received necessary maintenance, it said.
Nine of the airline's fleet of 520 aircraft are out of action.
Stuttgart - Daimler will fit the petrol-engined Smart fortwo with a micro-hybrid start-stop system beginning in October this year, the car maker announced.
The system would reduce fuel consumption by an average 8 per cent with up to 20 per cent savings possible in city driving conditions, the company said.
In addition the Smart fortwo cdi will be equipped with a closed diesel particulate filter that almost completely eradicates particulate emissions.
Daimler lists average consumption of both the 52 kW/71 hp and the 45 kW/61 hp engines with a micro-hybrid at 4.3 litres per 100 kilometres with a carbon dioxide emission figures reduced to 103 grammes per kilometre.
Ingolstadt, Germany - Audi is working on a "green" traffic management system of the future that will make it possible to drive in a city without having to stop at traffic lights.
After two years of research, the car maker announced the pilot project in cooperation with the city of Ingolstadt and the department of traffic engineering at the Technical University of Munich.
The system has already been implemented at 46 traffic lights in Ingolstadt. Software optimizes the entire network of traffic lights, significantly reducing the duration of stopping times for cars.
Stralsund, Germany - A visit to the Baltic Sea by a 12- metre-long humpback whale, only the third recorded by German scientists since 1851, generated excitement Tuesday along the German coast.
Harald Benke, director of the Oceanography Museum in Stralsund, identified the whale from a photo taken off the German island of Ruegen. The species, Megaptera novaeangliae, is found in all the world's main oceans, the environmentalist group Greenpeace said.
Singapore - A German firm has opened a plant on Singapore's Jurong Island to provide oil additives to the Asia-Pacific region, company officials said Wednesday.
Munich - BMW is ending the production of the current Z4 convertible
Stralsund, Germany - A visit to the Baltic Sea by a 12- metre-long humpback whale, only the third recorded by German scientists since 1851, generated excitement Tuesday along the German coast.
