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French car maker Renault and its Japanese partner Nissan are to assemble two million cars a year on a jointly developed platform to save purchasing and development costs by sharing components.
A one-stop portal for the global defence industry, which aims to get 50,000 registrations in the first year, has been launched.
Training courses to help utility buyers understand the New Electricity Trading Arrangements (Neta) have been set up by energy markets consultancy Ilex. The course covers the basic principles, rules and regulations of the energy markets together with the expected impact of Neta. It comes into force on 27 March and is expected to produce a 10 per cent fall in electricity prices.
The government is disappointed with the slow take-up of its controversial emissions trading scheme, which allows businesses to cut their energy bills. Only about 50 large companies have signed up, with the start due in April. Participants in the scheme can receive an 80 per cent reduction on the climate change levy, which has added an estimated 15 per cent to energy bills.
Content management company Reqio and systems integrator gedas are working together to produce a supplier-friendly e-procurement system. The alliance combines Reqio’s software and gedas’s experience with supply chain solutions. www.reqio.co.uk
In his first month in the role, e-envoy Alex Allan has launched an “e-forum”. Unveiled last week, the Internet chatroom is designed to allow industry and the public to have their say on the government’s e-commerce policy.
Food haulage firms have been criticised for running lorries only half full and during peak times.
The Computers in Manufacturing Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham from 7-9 November will stage a programme to help firms profit from e-commerce. The programme is targeted at the UK’s top 500 manufacturers and will focus on the key e-commerce issues facing them. For more details, call 0870 7511556 or visit www.cimshow.co.uk.
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