Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that it plans to issue short-term bonds worth RMB 2.0 billion ($0.33 billion) for a term of 365 days on July 16, in its first short-term bond issue in the ...
Tags: Iron, Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
LED lighting in Taiwan must have a minimum efficacy of 70lm/W, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has announced. The new legislation requires all indoor warm-white LED lamps to have a minimum efficacy of 70 lm/W, while cool-white LEDs ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED lamps, LED
LatticePower Corp of Nanchang, China, which claims to be the first company to commercialize GaN-on-silicon LED lighting, has announced an $80m initial round of Series D equity financing led by Asia Pacific Resources Development Investment ...
Tags: GaN-on-silicon, LED lighting
In order to develop distributed PV generation (DG), China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) confirmed the feed-in tariff (FiT) prices for DG to be RMB $0.42/kW last year. Governments of several provinces also ...
Tags: PV Generation, DG System, Sloar Cell
As of July 7, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 114.77 million mt, up 130,000 mt or 0.11 percent compared to the inventory level recorded on June 30, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on July 8. As of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore
Taiwan-based vertically-integrated LED firm Lextar Electronics has reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.355 billion (US$45 million) for June, the highest monthly figure ever with growth of 7.35% on month and of 5.02% on year. Lextar had ...
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Samsung C&T's subsidiary in Taiwan began selling crystalline silicon wafers, conductive pastes, components and materials used in making solar cells and modules in the local market in the second quarter of 2014, according to industry ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Solar Modules
Taiwan-based LED maker Epistar announced a merger with Formosa Epitaxy (Forepi) on June 30, 2014, with the former aiming to fully acquire the latter and become the surviving company. Epistar explained that the merger is meant to improve its ...
Tags: LED orders, epitaxial wafer, LED
Taiwan-based polycrystalline silicon solar cell makers, due to increasing price competition from China-based makers, plan to increase or step into production of monocrystalline models, which are relatively profitable, according to PV ...
Tags: polycrystalline, Solar Cell
The China government has imposed anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs on solar-grade polysilicon imported from the US, Europe and South Korea, but much of the US-produced polysilicon has been imported through export processing zones ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping, Solar-Grade Polysilicon, Solar
Taiwan-based LED packaging service provider Unity Opto Technology has invested NT$1.23 billion (US$40.8 million) to set up production capacity for LED light bulbs, tubes and lamps and will gradually expand monthly capacity from one million ...
Tags: Opto Technology, LED Lighting, LED
The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in late June (June 21-30) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China - all CISA members - totaled 1.778 million ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel, Crude Steel
The European Union (EU), in response to Germany-based SolarWorld AG's complaint that some China-based PV module makers have stealthily offered Europe-based importers prices below EUR0.53 (US$0.72)/W, a floor price set by the EU and the ...
On July 8, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (June 30-July 6) the overall average finished steel price in China decreased by 0.1 percent compared to the previous week. Last week, the average prices of ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Steel, Metal
The PC industry has recently started regaining momentum with Intel, AMD as well as Taiwan-based upstream component suppliers aggressively preparing for potential demand in the second half of 2014, according to sources from the upstream ...
Tags: PC Industry, Notebook