KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 (Bernama) -- A cutting-edge aramid flame resistant (FR) fabric, Westex™ Synergy™ Pro which offers the highest comfort level in a reputable protective aramid fabric for daily wear FR apparel has been introduced.
This is following the joint technology and commercial partnership by Westex™ by Milliken™, US-based FR textiles brand and Teijin Aramid, an aramid fiber producer based in the Netherlands. Westex Synergy Pro makes FR daily wear uniforms a simple and attractive safety solution for the Asia Pacific oil and gas industry. According to a statement, the fabric is exclusively available in Southeast Asia and Australasian markets from Nov 27. It has a variety of colors and in both 160 g/m2 and 200 g/m2 weights. Westex Synergy Pro features superior softness and six times better moisture-wicking capabilities compared to other leading aramid FR fabrics. The fabric is also compliant to NFPA 2112 and NFPA 70E. It also certified to EN ISO 11611 and EN ISO 11612 for oil and gas industry flash fire hazards. Powered by Teijinconex® meta-aramid staple fibers, Westex Synergy Pro builds on Westex by Milliken’s award-winning FR expertise to create a performance-driven aramid fabric with guaranteed FR protection. More details at www.westex.com and www.teijinaramid.com -- BERNAMA
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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 (Bernama) -- Fusionex -- the largest Big Data Analytics company and market leader in ASEAN-- has received the Outstanding Achiever Award 2018 at the Platinum Business Awards (PBA) 2018 here recently.
According to Fusionex which also has a Malaysian office in Petaling Jaya, Selangor the award presentation was also witnessed by the Entrepreneur Development Minister, Datuk Seri Mohd Redzuan Yusof. The premier awards ceremony recognized the company for its outstanding growth, excellent business practices and prominent presence in the IT industry, a statement said. Fusionex has grown from an ASEAN-based IT company to its present status as the largest Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data technology company in the region. The company technologies are used to power up Malaysia’s Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) eServices Platform. This government-endorsed initiative is expected to benefit local businesses, SMEs and the country as a whole. The platform aims to double Malaysia’s e-commerce growth rate and to reach a gross domestic product (GDP) contribution of RM211 billion by 2020. The PBA was launched in 2002 by the SME Association of Malaysia and has gained extensive recognition among SMEs, the business community and the public sector. Fusionex has global offices in Asia, Europe, United States and Australia. The company also featured on Forbes, Bloomberg, Gartner, IDC, Forrester, Edison and Huffington Post. More details at www.fusionex-international.com -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Bernama) -- Fieldstone – an independent investment bank and financial services provider in the energy and infrastructure sector – has consolidated its services and offerings under unified ownership and management on a global basis.
Fieldstone’s chief executive officer, Jason Harlan said: “We have now reached the point where we have taken full control of Fieldstone. This has resulted in the small New York team and its Malaysian subsidiary, being required to change the name and license of their operations, with immediate effect.” The company in a statement said Asian clients are a key part of Fieldstone’s practice, for projects and transactions in developing markets and in Europe. This part of the business will be directly addressed from January next year when Kan Xi, who previously worked with Infraco and Climate Change Capital in London joins the team. She will relocate to Asia to represent Fieldstone on the ground and monitor the needs of existing and prospective clients as well as assess future expansion plans into that market. Earlier this year, Fieldstone also launched a permanent Washington DC office and subsidiary (Fieldstone Development Corporation or Fieldstone DC) to serve both North American clients and to assist multi-lateral and US development finance institutions located in that city, the statement added. -- BERNAMA HONG KONG & SINGAPORE, Nov 23 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- LayerStack today announced its expansion in Asia Pacific Japan (APJ), performs an infrastructure and network upgrade of all the cloud servers hosting and network equipment at the Tier3+ rated Equinix data center in Singapore. The expansion of SG1 data center reinforces Singapore’s position as Asia-Pacific’s network hub and meeting the future bandwidth requirements of the Southeast Asia (SEA) market. It will bring a significant bandwidth increase that connect to Singapore data center, benefiting both existing and new customers at no extra cost by facilitating network speed and scalability.
LayerStack Singapore’s network enhancement with PCCW Global, Telstra, Cogent, NTT Communications and Singapore Internet Exchange (SGIX) connects more than 3000 cities across 150 countries, provides greater access to the SEA users, and focuses on improving its network resiliency, capacity and reducing the latency of the critical SEA backbone infrastructure. SGIX also operates as a distributed peering network platform with the presence in Equinix data centers in Singapore. Hence, LayerStack and its customers can enjoy better network performance from any locations island-wide. The upgrade will allow LayerStack to support the surge of high-bandwidth applications such as video conferencing, disaster recovery, VoIP (Voice-over Internet Protocol), etc. Since January, LayerStack has launched 4 data centers across 3 locations in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan to serve its growing base of customers. In the future, LayerStack’s footprint will continue to expand around the world and will strengthen its ability to help global companies direct access to their servers. For more information, please visit www.layerstack.com About LayerStack LayerStack brings innovative cloud solutions to market that help IT specialists to effectively solve their persistent challenges. LayerStack is committed to maintain a simple, scalable and stable cloud environment with the aim of providing multiple solutions for the cloud deployment. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong, with multiple datacenters in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181122005367/en/ Contact LayerStack Jimmy Wai, 36553851 Source : LayerStack KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 (Bernama) -- Beijing has recorded 2.27 million inbound tourists from Jan to July, 2018 with increase of 2.5 per cent year on year which underscores its efforts to explore new ways of inbound tourism partnership and open up tourism market by a string of supportive policies.
The capital of China has introduced an array of policies including special funds for awarding inbound tourism, funds for MICE, shopping tax rebates on departure for overseas tourists and 144-hour transit visa exemption to propel inbound tourism growth. With the international events to be hosted including the International Horticulture Exhibition in 2019, the World Leisure Conference in 2020 and the Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games in 2022, new opportunities will be available for Beijing's inbound tourism development as it also willing to strengthen cooperation and share opportunities with domestic and overseas partners. It is also expected to play a bigger role in deepening reform and opening-up, enhancing international friendship and promoting cultural and economic exchanges, according to a statement from Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development (BMCTD). In February, BMCTD launched the "Global Distribution Partnership Program of Beijing Tourism" -- China's and Asia Pacific region's first strategic cooperation innovation mechanism -- initiated by the government and participated in by international travel agents. The project received over 120 applications from international travel agents, while 30 of them are selected to be the partners inking a three-year-long cooperation with BMCTD to carry out in-depth cooperation over information sharing, marketing and tourism route development. BMCTD hopes to explore a normalized inbound tourism cooperation mechanism and invite global partners to participate in the study of feature inbound tourism routes and continue to enhance Beijing's appeal as a global tourism destination. Based on changes in the inbound tourism market, groups and preferences, eight types of feature tourism products will be introduced including ancient capital tours, modern capital tours, folklore tours, fashion tours, Chinese traditional medicine health tours and others. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 (Bernama) – Toshiba Machine Co. Ltd. has developed the new DC-KT Series Die Casting Machines to meet the needs of the Southeast Asian market. The Japan-based Toshiba Machine said the new machines will assist customers in the region in attaining higher productivity. According to the company’s statement, it has started sales and production of the machines at its plant in Thailand. The production and shipping in Thailand enables faster delivery times, more stable production and quicker response to customer requests for modifications, overhauls and other services. With product lineup for 280-ton and 400-ton models, the machines provide higher die-locking force than previous models to casting larger products. Improved high-speed acceleration performance and maximum injection force allow casting of complex-shaped products, products with large thicknesses and other product types. The series have enhanced functions – a preset function for casting pressure, 2-level injection settings for low speed and intensification accumulator in standard configurations. Company president Tanabe of Toshiba Machine (Thailand) Co. Ltd. said: "We want to aggressively expand sales using this new model, which was developed based on feedback from our customers in the Southeast Asian market." More details about the machines at www.toshiba-machine.co.jp -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Bernama) – Patton Electronics Co. – doing business as a bricks-and-mortar manufacturer since 1984 – has enhanced IPv6 in its SmartNode CPE. By implementing enhanced IPv6 in SmartNode VoIP CPE, Patton supports simplified network architectures and lowers operation and maintenance costs for service providers and enterprises. The IPv6 standard expands available IP addresses octillion times or at least 17 billion. According to Patton in a statement, the global expansion of the Internet, proliferation of IP endpoint devices and the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) reflects that Pv4 addresses will soon run out. With IPv4, maintaining network address translation (NAT) tables is complex, time-consuming and costly – whatech.com predicts the IPv6 market will grow at rate (CAGR) of +31 per cent until 2023 and beyond. Service providers made plans and some partially implemented IPv6 in their networks. Carriers like Telefonica and T-MOBILE and enterprises such as Microsoft have started the changeover. “One thing is for sure, we are not living in an All-IPv6 world. Still the move to IPv6 is inevitable. And there are good reasons to do it sooner rather than later,” said Executive Vice President at Patton, Burton A. Patton (Burt). “Getting from IPv4 to All-IPv6 networking presents challenges. We will live in a mixed IPv4/IPv6 world for some years,” Patton added in the statement. More details at www.patton.com -- BERNAMA BEIJING, Nov 15 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Geekplus Technology, a robotics and supply chain automation start-up based in Beijing, China, as one of the most popular booths, the demonstration of its unmanned warehouse solution won tens of thousands of audiences dropping by during the CeMAT ASIA in Shanghai China from November 6th to 9th, 2018.
CeMAT ASIA, known for a high-level international exhibition where the newest technologies of material handling, automation, transport are displayed, is quite an excellent platform for Geek+ Robotics to present the turn-key automation solution for intralogistics and to discuss with potential clients worldwide about the prospects of implementing robots for business growth. Geek+ Robotics has been recognized as the top robot maker in China and has grown rapidly over the past three years, from four co-founders to a professional team of over 600 employees. The company’s flagship “goods-to-person” solution - Geek Picking System has been deployed in various industries worldwide and many influential enterprises like TMALL.COM, China Post, SF Express, and others. It’s obvious that their ambition is to be more than a robot maker but a disruptive supply chain automation solution and service provider to boost the entire industry. With its on-site show video, Geek+ has shown its holistic automation solution presented a future smart warehouse that is equipped with a wide range of automated and intelligent devices to handle the material (pallets/boxes/single pieces), covering almost every step of intralogistics operation - from goods receipt, unloading to put-away to pick, pack and order shipment. Equipped with cutting-edge technologies of robotics and AI, the product lines of Geek+ has become quite comprehensive, and have been developed to satisfy various application scenarios, including: >Geek Picking System for order fulfillment in E-commerce and retailing industries; >Geek Moving System for material handling in factory logistics; >Geek Sorting System for parcels sortation in express; >Automated forklift and collaborative robot for unmanned warehouse. Geek+ also offers a powerful robot management system which the company independently developed for each solution. Its strong algorithm, big data analysis, and a series of optimization strategies enable a fleet of robot up to hundreds of units operate simultaneously with optimal path planning and traffic management, also dynamic adjustment can be customized for different business patterns. Geek+ Robotics CEO Mr. Yong Zheng, said: “Innovative robot & AI technologies and insightful supply chain industry knowledge are vital instruments to Geekplus, our job is to combine them in the most effective way and make smart logistics simpler than ever!” mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=33241 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 (Bernama) – The third International Open Art Competition -- Art Olympia 2019 -- will be held in Japan next year to discover talented artists worldwide and support for their art activities.
Held once every two years, the competition will give away a total of approximately US$500,000 in cash awards and prizes for supporting artist activities. (US$1 = RM4.19) The Art Olympia Executive Committee said in a statement, to support young artists, it has also created a Student Category, allowing students to apply for both All-Entrants and Student Categories. The first-prize winner in All-Entrants Category will receive US$120,000 while US$20,000 for first-prize winner in Student Category. One thousand artists will be also honored and featured. A primary review will be done using artwork images and the final review will use actual artworks. The final review will use a point-rating system, allowing the public to check the reviewing process. Approximately 160 artworks will be selected for a final review in Tokyo by a panel of jurors worldwide. The third Art Olympia will accept two-dimensional artworks. Acrylic, watercolor, pastel, mineral pigments, print, charcoal, digital/multimedia art, mixed media, photography will be also accepted. The maximum size is 117cm x 117cm (46 x 46 inches). The entry period started from Oct 1, 2018 to March 15, 2019. Winners will be announced on June 6, 2019 while the exhibition are at Toshima Ward Office Building from June 8 to 16, 2019 and at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum from June 23 to 29, 2019. More details at http://artolympia.info/ -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 15 (Bernama) -- Kofax -- a supplier of Intelligent Automation software -- unveiled Kofax RPA’s next-generation robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
Kofax RPA’s unique architecture and complementary ‘smart automation’ solutions in its Intelligent Automation platform empower enterprises to quickly and cost-effectively plan, deploy and manage a digital workforce that scales to meet the demands of the modern enterprise. The company is first in the market providing a comprehensive, single-vendor, single-platform, Intelligent Automation solution, a statement said. “Early adopters of RPA have experienced the many benefits in shifting human labor from ‘data gatherer’ to ‘data user’ roles. Increased productivity helps them remain on track for profitable growth, improved customer service and significant competitive advantage,” said Chief Executive Officer of Kofax, Reynolds C. Bish. Kofax RPA’s automates the processing of unstructured documents or images and their content with embedded Cognitive Document Automation (CDA) which leverages AI technologies, optical character recognition (OCR), machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). The Process Discovery capabilities available in the platform helps organizations easily track the human interaction with the client application via the user’s desktop. Organizations can identify and understand manual tasks that are performed and can be automated with RPA. Kofax RPA also provides enterprise-level robot revision control and deployment management making it easy to manage and deploy the entire robot workforce. It is available in the market via a free 12-month trial, offering customers a risk-free means to assess the solution in a full production setting. Kofax is a leading supplier of software and solutions to automate and digitally transform human and information intensive processes across front and back office operations. More details on https://www.kofax.com. -- BERNAMA |
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