Specialist Computer Holdings has sold off its distribution arm, Specialist Distribution Group to Tech Data Corporation for an estimated value of €277m (£219m). The move will see SCH concentrate on its remaining higher-margin ...
Japan, the world’s main importer of rare earths, has requested international assistance for alternatives, conservation, diversification and recycling and to continue dialogue with China to secure stable global supply, reports ...
Tags: Asia, China, ENVIRONMENT, Japan, Mongolia, Rare Earth, Rare earth metals
With so many moving variables in the rare earth space, how can investors evaluate investment opportunities? Siddharth Rajeev of Fundamental Research Corp. finds his top prospects by zeroing in on a specific material and tracking its growth ...
Tags: Rare Earth, Rare Earth Metals, rare earth export, Critical Metals
Taipei, Sept. 28, 2012 (CENS)--VIS Inc. has reportedly requested Dialog Semiconductor and Cirrus Logic, Apple's long-term suppliers of power management ICs and audio ICs, to distribute some foundry contracts to Vanguard International ...
Tags: Taiwan, TSMC, semiconductor, VIS
At the end of October, GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and other specialty markets) ...
Tags: GT, sapphire furnace, solar, LED
GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Merrimack, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and electronics markets) has acquired certain ...
Tags: GT, Twin Creeks, sapphire furnace, polysilicon
For the 7th consecutive year, INTERFILIERE Hong Kong will make its mark as the leading sourcing platform for intimates and swimwear on March 26-27, 2013 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This edition ...
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A top official said that the UAE steel tube industry will witness an annual growth of 17%until 2015,driven largely by the oil and gas industry. Mr Asad Ullah Mohammed general manager OKI Bering Middle East,a leading American ...
Tags: steel tube industry, oil, gas, UAE
Lenzing AG, global market leader in the production of man-made cellulose fibers, has successfully issued and placed a German Private Placement (Schuldschein) to the amount of EUR 200 mn (senior debt, unsecured) on the debt capital market. ...
Tags: Lenzing AG, cellulose fiber, debt capital market, transaction
World Bank Group support for Iraq over the next four years will focus on job creation,social inclusion and building stronger institutions.The Country Partnership Strategy which was discussed today by the World Bank Board of Executive ...
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As part of its economic diversification plan, Qatar is likely to invest about US$ 25 billion in the country's petrochemical sector by 2020, according to a recent report released by Qatar National Bank (QNB). In its report titled ...
Tags: economic diversification plan, petrochemical sector, invest, QNB
Nokia has dropped off the list of the top five smartphone vendors in the third quarter, facing stiff competition from Samsung and Apple globally, and from high-growth vendors like Huawei in China, where Nokia was the dominant player as ...
Tags: smartphone vendors, Apple, HTC, Nokia, smartphone
In third-quarter 2012,global mobile phone market shipments were 444.5 million mobile phones,up 2.4%on 434.1 million units in Q3/2011,according to the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker of market research firm International Data ...
Gulf News cited Mr Farouq Iqbal director of the Strategic Cooperation Department in the Middle East and North Africa region of the World Bank as saying that countries which are rich in oil, petroleum and other commodities should prudently ...
Tags: strategic cooperation, petroleum and other commodities
Mr Jun Yoshida Japanese Consul General estimated that the size of Japanese oil imports from Saudi at USD 48.2 billion while Japanese exports to the Kingdom amounted to USD 8.4 billion in automobile in addition to electrical machinery. Mr ...
Tags: Oil export, Oil, automobile, electrical machinery