Japanese contractor and materials company Sumitomo Forestry will buy 100% of the shares of Nevada-headquartered Tri Pointe Homes for $4bn. The company claims it is now the fifth largest housebuilder…

A Japanese team of Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) and NEC have created what they describe as a first-of-its-kind AI system that automatically generates reports of near-miss incidents from camera footage…

Japanese contractor and materials company Sumitomo Forestry is to purchase a controlling stake in Metricon, Australia’s largest housebuilder, for US$79m. The acquisition will give Sumitomo a 51% share in the…

A roof of a tyre factory in Thailand is to be fitted with some 100,000 sq m of solar panels, making it the world’s largest array on a single facility.