WALDLAUBERSHEIM, Germany, April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zoomlion"; 1157.HK), a global leader in construction machinery, officially laid the cornerstone for Phase II of its German factory project ("the Project") on March 31 in Waldlaubersheim. The Project, with an investment of over 50 million euro and covering 60,000 square meters, is an upgrade and expansion of the WILBERT TowerCranes GmbH plant that Zoomlion has acquired and will be manufacturing tower cranes, truck cranes and concrete machinery.
Aiming to establish a central global hub in Europe, Zoomlion's Project is expected to produce over 1,000 units of construction machinery annually and generate an output value of approximately USD 300 million once fully operational. The initiative will further drive collaboration with local upstream and downstream industries, contributing to the region's economic prosperity.
Zoomlion actively promotes the convergence of technology, products, capital, and industry with the global market. It has achieved profound integration of R&D and manufacturing, supply chain and sales service in the sectors of construction machinery and agricultural machinery, realizing co-creative sharing and win-win cooperation. Since 2001, Zoomlion has acquired Powermole (UK), CIFA (Italy) (2008), m-tec (Germany, 2013), Raxtar (the Netherlands, 2014), Ladurner (Italy, 2015), Wilbert (Germany, 2018), Rabe (Germany, 2020), and other excellent companies.
In recent years, Zoomlion has accelerated the expansion of overseas markets with the "global village" vision to make full use of internet thinking and construct a new overseas business ecosystem based on "end-to-end, digitalization, and localization" strategic directions, and it has achieved a strong growth trend.
To date, Zoomlion has built 400 overseas branches with over 210 service and spare parts warehouses; its products are available in more than 170 countries and regions; and 11 overseas production bases have been built in eight countries, including Italy, Germany, India, Mexico, Belarus, Brazil, Turkey and the US.
Zhan Chunxin, Chairman and CEO of Zoomlion, expressed his gratitude to all parties for supporting and promoting the project, stating that Zoomlion strives to promote the synergistic development with the upstream and downstream of the local industry and support the local economic development. The company will accelerate the implementation of the project in accordance with the investment plan and aim to achieve early commissioning of the project.
For more information about Zoomlion, please visit https://en.zoomlion.com/.
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Zoomlion Inaugurates Phase II of the German Factory Project, Advancing Sustainable Global Development
Opening new possibilities for medical and science
TOKYO, April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbray Co., Ltd., has successfully developed a radiation detector utilizing its proprietary high-quality, large-diameter single-crystal diamond technology. The exceptional physical properties of diamond, including radiation hardness, allow Orbray's diamond-based radiation detector to function in high-radiation environments where conventional detectors made from other materials would degrade. In addition, the composition of diamonds is closely equivalent to that of biological tissue, making it particularly well-suited for medical applications such as radiation diagnostics and therapy. Orbray has demonstrated that its diamond-based detector can achieve high-precision measurements across a wide range of radiation types—from low-energy diagnostic X-rays to high-energy therapeutic X-rays.
Diamonds have ideal physical properties for radiation detection, including high thermal and chemical stability and fast response. Additionally, diamonds are composed of carbon, with an atomic number of six, and are particularly closely equivalent to biological tissue. Diamonds have, therefore, been extensively studied as radiation detectors in the fields of nuclear engineering, nuclear fusion, high-energy physics, and medical applications. Until the 1990s, research relied on selected natural diamonds. Since the 2000s, advancements in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technology have enabled the synthesis of high-purity diamonds, significantly improving detector performance. Single-crystal CVD diamonds offer high sensitivity and excellent spectral characteristics. Polycrystalline CVD diamonds have been used to obtain high sensitivity by increasing the detection area. However, they exhibit lower sensitivity and inferior spectral characteristics compared to single-crystal diamonds.
Orbray announced that it had developed a 2-inch diameter high-quality (100) free-standing diamond substrate utilizing its proprietary step-flow growth method in 2021. Based on the diamond, radiation detectors (Fig. 1) have been developed in collaboration with Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tohoku University, Tohoku Institute of Technology, and Osaka University. These radiation detectors have exhibited high sensitivity and excellent spectroscopic characteristics in X-ray systems in medical settings. The detector can be scaled to the large area configuration (Fig. 2), enabling ultra-high sensitivity. Orbray will continue to develop products while conducting user evaluations.
At the Japan Radiology Congress 2025 in Yokohama Japan from April 10th to 13th, the diamond manufacturing methods and evaluation results of the detectors will be presented. The developed actual radiation detectors will be exhibited at the Exhibition held alongside there.
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Evolutionary: World's Largest Class Single Crystal Diamond Radiation Detector
Evolutionary: World's Largest Class Single Crystal Diamond Radiation Detector
