Residents in Tangshan are very familiar with the concept of oversupply. A severe glut in the steel industry has put many jobs at risk in the northeastern Chinese city that counts the metal as one of its primary exports. But the oversupply ...
Tags: Housing Market, Crashing Down
Australia is due for a second wave of LNG project development, despite spiraling costs that have hindered further progress in recent years, Santos Vice President of LNG Markets and Eastern Australia Commercial Peter Cleary said. Speaking ...
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Driven by the fanfare over (and overestimation of) the LCD display market, the LED front-end equipment market experienced an unprecedented investment cycle in 2010-2011. The market surge was driven mostly by MOCVD reactor shipments to new ...
Tags: General Lighting, LED TV
Over the next ten years, online retail will gain even more importance than expected so far – not just in developed countries, but also in emerging markets. Logistics will play a key role: it provides companies important competitive ...
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The US shale gas and oil boom of recent years is "very profound, but sometimes taken out of proportion," International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol said at the Flame conference in Amsterdam Tuesday. Birol said that of the ...
The UK could see its first increase in offshore oil output in over a decade this year and the start of a slight recovery, BP regional vice president for Europe, Peter Mather, said Tuesday. His comments were balanced by a longer-term ...
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Australian coal exploration company Stanmore Coal estimates that 40% of global seaborne-traded thermal coal production of roughly 800 million mt and 45% of internationally traded coking coal production of around 300 million mt is ...
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South Korea will seek to import more shale gas-based LNG from North America to meet rising power demand amid tighter environmental regulations, the deputy energy minister told Platts Friday. "Natural gas as a source of power generation ...
Tags: Shale Gasc, LNG
According to a study form Lux Research, investment and growth in bio-based material and chemical capacity continues to increase globally. Aggregating 229 sites from 217 companies that are planned, operating, or have been shuttered between ...
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Two new analyst reports compete to size up the fast-growing sector. Powered by a growing range of applications, 3D printing – encompassing laser additive manufacturing at the higher end – will become a mainstream production ...
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Listed Japanese companies as a whole are expected to maintain profit growth in the fiscal year ending March 2015, but management, concerned by the recent sales tax hike and emerging-market slowdowns, have issued conservative earnings ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Of the 351 metro markets measured, 300 have seen year-over-year economic gains, according to the National Association of Home Builders/First American Leading Markets Index (LMI). The index shows that 59 metros have fully returned to or even ...
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Intel, the chipmaker that got caught napping the afternoon the mobile revolution happened, is going to great lengths to make sure it doesn't miss the boat when wearables reach critical mass, as everyone seems certain they will. “We ...
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Uniqlo announces sales for the month of April for 2014. April 2014 same-store sales increased by 3.3% year on year while sales at our own stores increased by 6.7%. Total sales including online sales increased by 7.0%. Same-store sales ...
Tags: Apparel Retailer, Uniqlo
Environmental friendly stationery arises at the historic moment of staring, attract many consumers and stationery manufacturers.Environmentally friendly stationery can be said to be the future prospect of young industry, however, industry ...
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