Beijing, China (April 20, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — More and more cities and highway authorities in China are benefiting from Germany-based company Wirtgen's bitumen stabilized paving recycling technology, which conserves energy, reduces the demand for new materials, and produces a more durable road surface.

Wirtgen's recycling technology involves milling the existing road paving material and then mixing with an emulsion or foam of bitumen suspended in water together with a small amount of cement or lime. The bitumen acts as a flexible binding agent coalescing the milled particles together and also limits the ingress of water into the road base since the hydrophobic nature of bitumen inhibits water entering a layer of well-compacted material. Water entering the road base is a major factor in causing roads to deteriorate, particularly in parts of China that are subject to hot wet summers and freezing winters.

Initially regarded as a "poor man's" asphalt concrete, field performance has proved the case to be different and only recently have the non-continuous binding properties of these materials been appreciated. Results emanating from applied research efforts (primarily in South Africa, the Netherlands, and the USA) are now providing an understanding of the behaviour of these materials (particularly the non-continuously bonding) and their potential. The results of these studies suggest that the energy consumption associated with relaying a road can be reduced by a factor of up to three compared to older and more conventional technologies. In addition the grater durability of roads laid with this technique further reduces the expense and energy consumption associated with road repairs.

The adoption of this technology by the Chinese road authorities for rehabilitating their expressways that has opened up new research avenues which promise to be larger than everything done to date. Intentions to employ recently acquired accelerated testing facilities on these pavements are encouraging as they can only result in a better understanding of these materials, thereby advancing the technology.

The Yunnan Highway Bureau, for example, has successfully used three Wirtgen WR2500S units and a KMA200 unit, in their rehabilitation of the national highway network. This 800,000.00 square meters recycling job will be completed this year and the road owner is expecting to make cost savings of 30% compared to conventional methods. And Xi'an is using two Wirtgen WR2500S units on their municipal road rehabilitation. Changan Road in the city was repaired in 2009 with cost and energy savings combined and the benefit of reduced disruption to traffic due to a faster turn-round.

About the Wirtgen Group
The Wirtgen Group is an internationally operating group of companies in the construction machinery sector incorporating four traditional brands: Wirtgen, Vogele, Hamm, and Kleemann. As a technological leader, they offer their customers mobile machine solutions for road construction and road rehabilitation, as well as for mining and processing minerals.

The Wirtgen Group has been present in China for more than 20 years and, since 2004, has operated an assembly factory in Langfang, Hebei Province. With more than nine branches and 200 employees, Wirtgen China are always close to their customers.

For more information: www.wirtgen-china.com.cn

Beijing, China (February 10, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Germany-based Wirtgen Group is to introduce onsite-recycling technology developed by its Kleemann GmbH subsidiary into China when it will be showcased in China at Bauma China in Shanghai in November 2010.

Kleemann GmbH recycling plants take demolition waste, demolished concrete, and spoil and convert into high-quality aggregate for the construction industry. By recycling demolition waste onsite the process can dramatically reduce the amount of energy and CO2 emissions required in hauling material away from a demolition site. And instead of demolition waste ending up in land-fill or being used as low grade hardcore it can be used as aggregate for the next building project on that site: thus reducing material costs and the need to extract fresh aggregate by quarrying.

The core of the process is a Kleemann impact crusher which is fed with demolition material that has been screened for size with large particles (more than 60mm grain size) being fed into the crusher while smaller particles are put aside for further processing. The crushed aggregate is then separated at 20 mm, 40 mm and 100 mm sizes, and is then cleaned from light materials. The ferrous metals contained in the demolition waste and demolished concrete are then removed by electromagnets and go for recycling in steel plants. The recycled product can then be used in the next building project on the same site.

And example of this technology in action Europe's largest recycling plant is located in the vicinity of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The turnkey plant was designed and built by Kleemann for processing demolition waste, demolished concrete and asphalt into high-quality aggregate for the construction industry. It includes, among other units, Kleemann's largest impact crusher model SHB 20/160. The recycling plant has a feed capacity of up to 700 tons of material per hour. One year of planning, construction and assembly was needed before the new recycling plant was put into operation. To protect the environment from dust and noise, the entire plant was enclosed with a trapezoidal panel construction.

The recycled product is upgraded with natural sand and cement to a hydraulically bound base layer, and is presently used for soil stabilization at Schiphol Airport.

About the Wirtgen Group
The Wirtgen Group is an internationally operating group of companies in the construction machinery sector incorporating four traditional brands: Wirtgen, Vogele, Hamm, and Kleemann. As a technological leader, they offer their customers mobile machine solutions for road construction and road rehabilitation, as well as for mining and processing minerals.

The Wirtgen Group has been present in China for more than 20 years and, since 2004, has operated an assembly factory in Langfang, Hebei Province. With more than nine branches and 200 employees, Wirtgen China are always close to their customers.

For more information :www.wirtgen-china.com.cn;www.kleemann.info

Commuters welcomed the news. Black Qin, rides the Shanghai metro to get to work, and also to reach other parts of the city to meet friends. "Having a metro map on my phone is really useful especially with the new lines which have opened up in Shanghai. Now I never miss the last train home!"

The British founder of ExploreMetro, University of Cambridge graduate Matt Mayer predicted: "2010 will see both the rapid growth of smartphones such as Apple's iPhone and Google's Android-powered devices, together with the fast expansion of metro networks for the Shanghai World Expo and Guangzhou Asian Games. Our apps, available in Chinese and English, meet this need."

Interactive maps on mobile phones can be automatically updated, unlike paper maps which quickly become out of date. The apps include a route-planner, allowing subway riders to calculate the time and price of a journey, and even work without an internet connection. ExploreMetro's apps are priced at USD0.99, with the Beijing and Guangzhou apps available for free until February 7th at ExploreMetro's website.

About ExploreMetro
Since 2007 ExploreMetro has made interactive maps for metro and subway systems in Chinese cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, online and for mobile.

Contact

• Name: Matt Mayer
  Email: matt@exploremetro.com
  Tel: +86 13482644407

Shanghai, China (December 07, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — IGVision's Green Fuels & Vehicles China 2010 is set to take place in Shanghai, China, on April 8-9, 2010 and serve as a unique platform for the innovation and industrialization of alternative fueled vehicles.

This conference will focus on the alternative fuels and vehicles and green conventional auto industries will highlight updated policy and market outlooks; technical innovations; operational and management experiences of alternative fuels; hybrid vehicles; electric vehicles; battery and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; conventional autos; powertrains; engines and emission controls to enlighten the relevant industry participants with long-term technical and business insights, providing an unparalleled global networking platform.

This time, the high-profile event will consist of 200+ top professionals from global fuels and vehicles sector including government authorities, auto manufacturers, battery producers, fuel manufacturers, suppliers, energy providers, environmental institutes, transportation institutes, engineering consulting companies, technical solution suppliers, equipment providers, software providers, investors, and accounting and legal firms.

Green Fuels & Vehicles China 2010 is a unique platform gathering 30+ eminent speakers & panelists in the industry; 25+ representative countries and regions; 25+ original equipment manufacturers; and a compelling project showcase.

The high-profile event will focus on the following issues: Examining the industrialization and commercialization of electric vehicles in China; the innovation of hybrid engine technology of utilizing advanced fuels and battery technologies; guidance for new energy giants to well cooperate with OEMs; the feasibility and challenges in building battery charging station in China; what role does advanced technical powertrain play in the alternative vehicles; what is the right path to accelerate battery industrialization to promote alternative vehicles; the Future market opportunities and challenges ofChina conventional auto industry.

More information is available at http://www.greenfuels-vehicles.com

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Contact: Ms, Rachel Yang
  Email: rachel.yang@igvision.com
  Tel: +86-21-5161 5339
  

Hot issues at the event are:
- Updating the latest governmental support policy from China's governmental institutes.
- Analyzing the shipping industry development trends from 3 parts: China's export and import, shipping industry in Europe, and ship-owners of oil tanker, bulk and container.
- Promoting the green ships and safe shipbuilding from green design, material selection, process technology, welding technology to coating technology.
- Discussing about key technologies of core parts during the whole process of designing and constructing offshore engineering equipments.

The 40 honorable speakers are coming from:
Shipyards: China State Shipbuilding, Jiangnan Shipyard, China Shipbuilding Industry, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, New Century Shipbuilding Corporation (NCSC), Jurong Shipyard, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Kawasaki Heavy Industries…
Ship-owners: IMC, MST, Riverlake Shipping SA, Maersk, Leonhardt & Blumberg, China Shipping (Group) Company, HOSCO Group, Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd…
Research Institute: China Shipbuilding Economy Research Center, China Shipbuilding Economy Research Center…

For more information, please visit http://www.chinashipsummit.com/

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Fanny Wang
  Online Registration: http://www.chinashipsummit.com/
  Tel: +8621 51720126
  E-mail: marketing@jfpsgroup.com.cn

Beijing, China (October 14, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — By using Wirtgen's Streumaster high precision spreading technology for cold recycling of the road surface, together with a Wirtgen WR 2500S Recycler, a Hamm 3625HT single drum compactor, and a Voegele S-1803-2 wheel paver, the Xi'an Management Bureau was able to make major savings in energy and costs when widening and resurfacing Chang'An Nan Lu, the main north-south axial road in the historic city.

China has been using cold recycling of road surfaces for some time and traditionally the stabilizing agents are spread manually. The recycling of the surface of Chang'An Nan Lu required around 11,100 tons of cement. Using the manual spreading method, a total of 444,000 25 kilogram bags of cement would be required. Since it takes around three hours to load and unload a truck load of 800 bags the total time just to load and unload cement bags for this project would be 167 days, or seven months.

For the Chang'an Nan Lu project the Xi'an Management Bureau used a Wirtgen Streumaster SW16 MC mounted on a SX3255DR385 truck from Shaanxi Automobile Group. The tank for the stabilizing agent in the SW16MC has a capacity equal to approximately 20 tons of cement. Since the cement is pumped directly from a silo truck into the Streumaster's tank, and it takes just 30 minutes to fill the tank, this reduced the total time required to load the 11,100 tons of cement on the Chang'An Nan Lu job to around 28 days. With a spreading width of 2.46 meters and spreading the stabilizing agent at a speed of 1.5 kilometers an hour the Streumaster took approximately 10 days to spread the cement on the total area of 370,000 square meters. Thus the total duration of the project was reduced to around 38 days compared to an estimated 137 days using manual methods.

Besides this huge saving in time and costs, the Streumaster improved efficiency on the job since the stabilizing agent could be spread just when it was needed and there was no need to consider weather changes such as rain, which would have forced the jobsite team to cover all the bags if they had been placed manually.

Another very important cost saving advantage of using the Streumaster was that – in accordance with regulations from the Chinese authorities on recycling jobs – when using bagged cement (in this case a 5% mix), the contractor has to add an additional 1% of cement to the mix to compensate for stabilization agents that are lost by being blown away by the wind, or are wasted by poor accuracy of spreading on the road. When spreading the cement using the Wirtgen Streumaster this additional 1% was not required, which made it possible to save a total quantity of 1,850 tons of cement with a cost saving of CNY740,000 and concomitant savings in fuel and energy costs resulting from the reduction in the number of truck journeys required.

Speaking about the project, Mr. Gang, the managing director of the Xi'an Municipal Management Bureau, said: "Our government strongly emphasizes environmentally friendly recycling projects with construction waste reduction and sustainability. Sustainability and reuse are our targets. The recycling market has just begun. As more and more companies consider recycling in their future projects, the recycling market will become bigger and bigger."

"The characteristics of municipal road repair and maintenance are busy traffic, many job sites, limited working time, and the need for high quality. It follows that the requirements for machines include reliability, less breakdowns, easy operation, and simple service and maintenance. In essence, machines from the Wirtgen Group meet our construction requirements." Mr. Gang added.

The Wirtgen Group is an internationally operating group of companies in the construction machinery sector incorporating four traditional brands: Wirtgen, Vogele, Hamm, and Kleemann. As a technological leader, they offer their customers mobile machine solutions for road construction and road rehabilitation, as well as for mining and processing minerals. In 2008, with its workforce of more than 4,500 men and women, the Wirtgen Group generated consolidated sales of 1.5 billion Euros.

The Wirtgen Group has been present in China for more than 20 years and since 2004 has operated an assembly factory in Langfang, Hebei Province. With more than nine branches and 200 employees, Wirtgen China are always close to their customers.

www.wirtgen-china.com.cn

This most recent appointment was won over a number of other international and local asset disposal companies and follows a series of other successful tyre manufacturing sales GoIndustry DoveBid recently held for Continental Tires.

The upcoming sales will be held in three stages in May 2009 including two online auctions on
www.Go-Dove.com and a 2-day clearance live auction in Somerton including over 1000 lots of factory equipment.

Major tyre manufacturing equipment, used in the production of Goodyear and Dunlop tyres for passenger vehicles will be auctioned off in the online auction set to close in May 22nd featuring tyre building machines, curing presses, extruders, calenders, mixing lines and much more. The contents for two further sales will consist of factory support equipment and machine tools.

The sales are expected to generate revenues in excess of AUD1million from existing tyre manufacturers in Asia.

GoIndustry DoveBid Goodyear Dunlop Auctions:

Sale 1 Online Auction:
Factory Support Equipment and Machine Tools
Bidding Closing Friday 15th May 2009 at http://www.Go-Dove.com/
http://www.go-dove.com/Auctions/AuctionDetail.asp?auctionID=12915&utm_source=cprn&utm_medium=pr

Sale 2 Online Auction:
Tyre Manufacturing Machinery including Tyre Building Machines, Mixers, Calenders, Extruders and Mills
Bidding Closing Friday 22nd May 2009 at http://www.Go-Dove.com/
http://www.go-dove.com/Auctions/AuctionDetail.asp?auctionID=12914&utm_source=cprn&utm_medium=pr

Sale 3 Live Auction:
2-Day Clearance Live Auction of Over 1000 Lots of Factory Equipment
Thursday, 28th & Friday, 29th May 2009 at Somerton, Victoria, Australia

GoIndustry-DoveBid plc, quoted on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market (GOI), is a global market leader in the provision of asset management, auction and valuation services. The Company delivers innovative solutions that help to value assets accurately, optimize asset utilization and reduce costs. The Company combines its asset, industry and market expertise, with eCommerce technology to service the needs of multi-national manufacturing corporations, financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, used equipment dealers and asset based lenders around the world.

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Greg Ceniti
  Tel: +61 3 9013 9230
  Cell: +61 421 33 22 66
  Fax: +61 3 9013 9231
  Email: greg.ceniti@go-dove.com

Shanghai, China (February 25, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Digital Media Group (DMG), the leading provider of digital out-of-home ("DOOH") media and advertising solutions for subway systems in China, has signed the biggest DOOH contract in China with Shanghai Metro TV. This contract gives DMG the exclusive right to operate digital advertising (in trains and station platforms) for all 13 lines in the Shanghai Metro system for the next five years. DMG currently reaches a daily subway audience of 4.3 million passengers in Shanghai which is expected to grow to 9 million by 2013.

"Although numerous companies bid on the Shanghai project, we chose DMG because they have the strongest operating track record for subways, and we have been working with them since 2002," said Zhu Yushan, General Manager of Shanghai Metro TV. "By partnering with DMG, we will deliver a better experience for passengers and a superior platform for advertisers."

According to Zenith Optimedia, China's advertising market is expected to increase from US$21.9 billion in 2008 to US$28.2 billion in 2010, an increase of US$6.3 billion. Other players in the DOOH space include publicly listed companies such as Air Media (AMCN), Focus Media (FMCN), and Vision China (VISN). Since Tier 1 cities account for more than 60% of advertising spending in China, the importance of Shanghai in any digital network is clear. Shanghai is China's most populous city with nearly 19 million people.

This DMG contract provides a unique opportunity for multinational advertisers to reach commuters of all 13 Shanghai metro lines through one operator in a cost-effective way. According to the Metro TV Audience Measurement Report by Nielsen in June 2008, advertisers would need to spend 4.5 times more on TV (based on 2008's rate) than on DMG to reach an equivalent audience.

"With the win in Shanghai, we increase our national subway media network to 30 lines and reach 10 million passengers a day," said Thomas G. Tsao, Chief Executive Officer of DMG. "This solidifies DMG's position as the biggest operator of subway digital media in China." By comparison, DMG's nearest competitor operates 11 subway lines and reaches 5.7 million passengers a day. In the critical cities of Beijing and Shanghai, DMG will operate 17 lines and currently reaches 7.8 million passengers a day while its nearest competitor covers 5 lines and reaches 2.3 million passengers a day.

DMG also exclusively operates the digital screen network for 3,000 bus shelters throughout Shanghai. Combining its subway and bus shelter networks, DMG will reach more than 14.1 million passengers just in Shanghai (nearly 80% of the city's entire population) by 2010. In that year, the World Expo is expected to attract 70 million tourists over a six month period.

DMG recently raised US$30 million in a Series C financing from existing investors Oak Investment Partners and Gobi Partners. "This is a game-changing opportunity for DMG," said Ren Riley, general partner of Oak and a director of DMG. "With this additional capital infusion, DMG will continue to aggressively drive its leading market position and help shape the industry's exciting future."

About DMG
DMG (Digital Media Group) is China's leading operator of digital media inside subway systems. DMG delivers quality entertainment, information, advertising and its proprietary Passenger Information System (PIS) to over 14 million passengers a day through 16,184 digital screens. DMG's network consists of 30 subway lines in nine cities including Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Tianjin as well as bus shelters in Shanghai. DMG is headquartered in Shanghai, with its R&D activities based in Beijing. DMG group companies include Beijing Eastlong Technology Development Company Limited, Beijing Eastlong Advertising Company Limited and six DMG operating subsidiaries.

For more information, please visit http://www.dmgtv.com

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Mr. Philip Wong
  Tel: 86-21-6288-4255*832
  Email: philip.wong@dmgtv.com

Shanghai, China (November, 2007) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — CIC, China's leading Internet Word of Mouth (IWOM) research and consulting firm, announced in a study released today that it tracked 15,618,268 automobile related messages found on online message boards (BBS) written by 468,430 unique users from the period of April to June 2007. This most recent installment of CIC's IWOM white paper series represents the first comprehensive analysis of IWOM surrounding China's automobile industry.

China has 162 million Internet users according to China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), making it the second largest Internet market in the world behind the United States. CIC's finding of massive consumer participation in online communities echo earlier findings from CNNIC showing that China's Internet users are some of the most "interactive" online consumers in the world with 36.9% and 25.3% frequenting BBS and blogs respectively. All of these figures demonstrate that Chinese consumers are going to the Internet in droves to seek and share opinions and experiences about products; the auto industry is no exception to this phenomenon.

Using its proprietary text mining technology, CIC determined that in comparison to foreign invested joint-ventures, "pure" Chinese domestic brands accounted for seven out of the top ten most mentions of manufacturer brand, with Chery garnering the most buzz (107,151 messages mentioning). CIC found that Chery buzz is driven by national pride and its star models like Chery QQ. Compared to other brands, Chery had a stronger spike in buzz coinciding with the Shanghai Auto Show and saw buzz spikes around announcements related to new model releases and overall company performance.

Daisy Zhang, CIC research director, suggests "the passion and pride for pure Chinese brands, especially Chery, has fueled a strong IWOM base which presents a unique advantage for communications over foreign and foreign invested brands. The passionate brand fans driving these conversations will actively promote domestic brands' improvements and will facilitate Chinese consumers to gain confidence in the quality and service of domestic brands."

For the 430 models tracked for this study, Ford Focus from Changan Ford-Mazda dominates with 3.5% of all model mentions ¬– talk about its Interior was a unique major buzz driver compared to other models. Interest in safety spiked when results from China New Car Assessment Programme (C-NCAP) safety test for Focus were released –during this time, Focus's safety buzz increased 5 fold.

In an analysis of the language and culture of these forums, CIC found that 50% of all Ford Focus mentions refer to Internet nicknames such as "FKS" instead of its official name, offering interesting implications for search engine marketers. The report also outlines activities such as "fubai" and "homework" which encourages consumers to meet together and share detailed experiences and opinions about particular models both online and offline.

Sam Flemming, founder and CEO of CIC, suggests "Online culture in China is breeding a consumer media of experience and sharing which means consumers are now playing a larger role in influencing brand image and purchase decisions of fellow consumers. In understanding IWOM, marketers not only gain insight about what consumers actually want and need, they can use this insight to more effectively and meaningfully engage and participate in their consumers' world.

INTERNET LINKS

http://www.cicdata.com
http://www.seeisee.com
http://www.seeisee.com/sam

CIC is the leading Internet Word of Mouth (IWOM) research and consulting firm in China. CIC IWOM analysts help its clients make sense of the buzz found on Chinese blogs, BBS forums, and other IWOM platforms using proprietary technology developed specifically for the Chinese language on the Internet.

With sensitivity toward marketing, market research, media planning, public relations, and product development, CIC's team of IWOM analysts provide actionable insights for a stable of Fortune 500 retainer clients in China and around the world, including retainer relationships with leading automobile manufacturers.

CIC was founded in 2003 by a team of local and international professionals with rich experience in the Chinese marketing communications.

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Lucy Guo
  Tel: 86-21-5237 3860/61/62/63
  Fax: 86-21-5237 3632
  Email: info@cicdata.com

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