Russian diamond miner Alrosa expects its first-quarter sales to be down 6% at $1.25-billion compared with a year ago, the state-controlled company said in a presentation for its investor day on Wednesday, miningweekly.com noted.

Investments in the construction of the Ford Sollers factory for the production of engines were 275 million dollars.

Research Aimed at Accelerating Conduct of Clinical Trials.

The second-generation KAMAZ-6282 electrobus was presented in the course of the offsite session of the technical council which took place in Podolsk and was visited by represenatatives of the largest automobile plants.

Seiko Epson Corporation is expanding its lineup of industrial SCARA robots with its new T series of robots that will offer a low total cost of ownership.