PARIS — March 6, 2013 — The composites market is booming with an average of +6% growth per year since 2010. With a growing demand for better environmental impact reduction and costs savings, composites are used more and more ...
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A. Schulman, Inc. (Nasdaq-GS: SHLM) announced today that it has made a proposal to the Board of Directors of Ferro Corporation (NYSE: FOE) to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Ferro common stock for per-share consideration of $6.50, ...
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Research firm, Gartner, forecasts the public cloud services market to reach $US131 billion this year, an 18.5 per cent year-on-year (YoY) growth from 2012′s $US111bn.” “The continued growth of the Cloud services market ...
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The number of mobile telephones worldwide is set to catch up to the globe's population next year, the United Nations' telecommunications agency says. The UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said mobile subscriber numbers ...
As solar markets in Europe are growing slowly, emerging solar markets have become the focus. China and Japan achieve a combined market share of 25% of the global market in 2013. The US and India are both promoting solar with policies, ...
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LED lighting is the trend of the next generation of lighting products. It is estimated that in 2012 the output value of the global high-brightness LED market will be 13.4 percent annual growth rate, size of up to $ 10.1 billion, Japan, ...
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Solar demand for 2012 reached just 29.0GW, an increase of only 5% on year compared to 27.7GW in 2011, according to Solarbuzz. This is the first time in a decade that on-year market growth in the solar industry has been less than 10%. ...
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The global market for business intelligence (BI) software will hit $13.8 billion in 2013, but the pace of growth will be slower than in past years, according to new figures from analyst firm Gartner. This year, BI market spending will ...
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Southeast Asia's LNG demand would represent a third of Asian LNG demand growth by 2025, while India's would represent one-seventh, Nicholas Browne, Senior Gas Market Analyst at Wood Mackenzie said Wednesday. Total Southeast Asian LNG ...
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Highlighting the Plenary session at the Strategies in Light conference, Ella Shum and Vrinda Bhandarkar of Strategies Unlimited reported on the 2012 market for packaged LEDs and SSL products. For the first time in 2012, general lighting ...
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Morrisons’ bid to profit from the horse meat scandal will provide a ‘short-term bounce’ rather than a long-term turnaround, say City analysts. Morrisons' gain from the horse meat scandal is likely to be short-term: City ...
From Jan. to May 2012, the export value of Chinese ball pens, fountain pens, propelling pencils and pens was 654 million US dollars, up 13.9% year on year. According to the market growth, in the first 5 months of 2012, among the 20 ...
Global food group Nestle said 2013 looks every bit as "challenging" as 2012, a year when profits increased but underlying sales growth slowed. The Swiss food giant reported a 11.8% increase in earnings of CHF10.61bn (US$12.02bn) in 2012. ...
According to TechNavio, one of the key factors contributing to market growth in semiconductors is the high thermal conductivity of gallium nitride over other non-silicon substrates . The gallium nitride semiconductor devices market has ...
Microsemi's latest optical system linecard device is designed to address channel density issue with the uptake of 100G links. "Growth of 100G is exceeding our most optimistic predictions and, in turn, significantly bolstering the optical ...
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