2013 may be another golden year for fab equipment spending,says SEMI,with growth of 17%to almost $43bn. The last two golden years were 2007 and 2011,says SEMI:"Although spending in 2012 will decline,it may still turn out to be the third ...
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Ramage oversees the areas of marketing, branding and licensing for Brown Jordan and Brown Jordan Services brands.Ramage joins Brown Jordan with more than 10 years of experience in marketing, brand development and licensing, most recently as ...
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Turnover of the Swiss plastics industry declined by 1.8% to CHF 15.5bn (€12.9bn) in 2011, alongside a 1.6% reduction in the number of employees in the industry to 34,530, it was announced on 28 June by the industry’s trade ...
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The Authentic Food Co has invested GBP2m(US$3.1m)in increasing production capacity after securing contracts with UK retailer Asda and several leading European retailers. The ethnic food manufacturer,which invested GBP2m(US$3.1m)in its two ...
The average price of cement across China last week fell 0.83 percent week-on-week to 336.25 yuan per ton, reports Shanghai Securities News. According to the report, the price of cement has been falling for several weeks since the end of ...
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Driveline supplier plans more investments, new capacity GKN Driveline has started production on a new forging line at its plant in Celaya, Mexico — the third line installed there since the plant was inaugurated in 1979. The new ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath,Germany says that in fourth-quarter 2011 it received an order for an AIX 2600G3 IC MOCVD reactor in 12x4"-wafer configuration from existing customer Jenoptik Diode Lab GmbH,which ...
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Second-quarter 2012 LED prices have been flat, according to industry sources. Demand has been high pushing capacity utilization rates to remain high. If prices continue to hold in the third quarter, the overall fall of ASPs in 2012 may be ...
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Cement results 1Q12 Dangote Cement has released its financial results for 1Q12. The results reveal an 8.9% y/y increase in profit before tax, rising from N27.4 billion in 2011 to N31.6 billion in 2012. Operating profits grew 13.7% y/y to ...
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More PV generating capacity was added in 2011 than wind and gas combined,finds new report. Top-ten PV markets in 2011 The European Photovoltaics Industry Association's(EPIA's)latest annual report on the global PV market has found ...
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In 2011, faced with the complicated and volatile domestic and international economic environment, under the firm leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the people of all nationalities of China, taking Deng Xiaoping ...
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Prior to the pricing mania that exists today, the last big party for fluoropolymers occurred in the late 1990s when demand was growing and pricing was firm in the years leading up to Y2K. However, in the first decade of new millennium, ...
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Chinese PET producers report that they are planning to increase their export sales in 2012 as competition within the domestic market will heat up this year due to some large new capacity additions scheduled to come on-line in 2012. China is ...
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Compounding extruders continued their comeback this year, with something new - demand for large-volume compounding machines, industry officials said. A resurgent automotive sector, joined with steady packaging and recycling markets, has ...
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The world market for turbines and related products (turbine-based engines, generators and generator sets) is projected to increase 6.1 percent per year through 2014 to $133 (USD) billion. Growth will be driven by the wind turbine sector, ...