It’s reported that the Korean shipbuilding companies’ imports of shipbuilding plates reduced substantially. In January, the imports of shipbuilding plates dropped to 152,000 tons to touch the lowest level over the past 3 ...
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Television makers are changing their game plans to adapt to slowing demand for LCD TVs, including developing strategic alliances and expanding product lineups to include a wider selection of panel sizes. According to the latest quarterly ...
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Solar PV demand to hit 31GW in 2013 - analyst 13 Mar 2013 Another year of single-digit growth says NPD Solarbuzz; China, Japan, India to account for 36% of global demand. Sunny forecast: geographic breakdown of global PV demand in ...
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LED lighting needs to have a unified standard, said Horng-Ching Hsiao, professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and a member of The Illuminating Engineering Society of Taiwan. Hsiao noted that in recent years, the ...
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It's reported that steel rebar futures at Shagnhai Futures Exchange (SHFE) fell for a second day to the lowest level in more than six weeks on nine consecutive weeks of climbing inventories in China, showing a sign of oversupply in the ...
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The president of Feng Hsin, one of the major carbon steel long product makers in Taiwan said that the global economic situation has turned to good side. Furthermore, he added that once China's steel oversupply situation is improved, it ...
Recently, market rumors have stated that Taiwan-based solar firm Motech may experience changes at the executive level because the firm's biggest shareholder, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), may sell its shares once the ...
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The effect of the US anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against China-made solar cells has been questioned especially when China-based solar firms are now able to buy solar cells from non-China regions and continue to assemble the ...
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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), the world’s leading vertically integrated Polyester Value Chain producer, saw revenues rise by US$ 678 m to US$ 6.78 billion in 2012. The general sentiments for commodity Polyester value ...
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As the total LED production capacity in China has significantly exceeded demand due to excessive investment over the past three years, the China government is expected to promote integration or mergers for less competitive LED makers to ...
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Due to rising demand for LED products from the handsets and lighting sectors, market research institutes predict the global LED market output value will reach US$12.4 billion in 2013, representing an on-year growth of 12%. However, the ...
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During a keynote address at Strategies in Light, Norbert Hiller of Cree announced that the company had achieved a new LED efficacy milestone of 276 lm/W in a research & development environment. In the opening Plenary Session at the ...
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One in five Chinese LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future. About 4,000 companies in China are producing LEDs, or ...
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The China Cotton Association (CCA) has said that the Government’s policy of temporary purchase and storage of cotton is being misinterpreted. Since 2011, the Chinese Government is effectively implementing its cotton purchase and ...
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Reportedly, Chinese largest stainless steel producer Taigang Stainless announced to boost its stainless production by around 10% to 3.4 million tons in 2013, bring pressures to the Taiwanese steelmakers. It’s known that Taiwanese ...