ABS prices in China, Italy and Turkey are facing significant upward pressure due to rapidly escalating upstream costs, as per ChemOrbis. Although demand in all three countries has been unspectacular, players are nevertheless predicting ...
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Digitimes Research predicts the growth of high-brightness LEDs in 2012 to reach 13.4% with an output value of US$10.1 billion. However, MOCVD demand will shrink to 200 units in 2012. The combined share of high-brightness LEDs in the Japan, ...
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Recent months have seen polysilicon spot prices sink below the US$30/kg mark as weak demand and overcapacity dogged the sector. Prices were at or below manufacturing cost for the majority of over 100 small-scale producers. However, in ...
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Recent months have seen polysilicon spot prices sink below the US$30/kg mark as weak demand and overcapacity dogged the sector. Prices were at or below manufacturing cost for the majority of over 100 small-scale producers. However, in ...
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According to analysts at Deutsche Bank (DB), November estimated containerboard prices were flat month/month at $635-645/ton. However, pressure on domestic prices is mounting. "We're forecasting a drop of $5/ton quarter/quarter in 4Q, and ...
Containerboard and Market Pulp Pricing Under Pressure, Recycled Board Flat Nov. 22, 2011 - According to analysts at Deutsche Bank (DB), November estimated containerboard prices were flat month/month at $635-645/ton. However, pressure on ...
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The cost of solar cells and microchips has nowhere to go but down because of a supply glut for the commodity they’re made from, a brittle charcoal-colored semiconductor baked in ovens at 600 degrees centigrade. Polysilicon has plunged ...
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The cost of solar cells and microchips has nowhere to go but down because of a supply glut for the commodity they’re made from, a brittle charcoal-colored semiconductor baked in ovens at 600 degrees centigrade. Polysilicon has ...
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Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. and Renesola Ltd., two Chinese solar companies, reduced their forecasts for shipments and cut the estimated values of their inventories. Yingli will deliver 1,580 to 1,630 megawatts of photovoltaic modules in ...
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Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. and Renesola Ltd., two Chinese solar companies, reduced their forecasts for shipments and cut the estimated values of their inventories. Yingli will deliver 1,580 to 1,630 megawatts of photovoltaic ...
In Southeast Asia, more local PVC prices for September were announced with rollovers to decreases this week after a Vietnamese producer had pioneered lower September prices in late August as per the plastics pricing service ChemOrbis. ...
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Plastics prices finished down last month across much of Asia, with the trend affecting a broad swath of the market. Lower oil prices pulled down the cost for some plastic feedstock materials' prices, and demand was soft as well as buyers ...
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World demand for rare earths is forecast to expand 7.1 percent per year to 180,000 metric tons in 2015. In dollar terms, sales are expected to more than triple from $3.0 billion in 2010 to $9.2 billion in 2015. Consumption will be driven by ...
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World demand for rare earths is forecast to expand 7.1 percent per year to 180,000 metric tons in 2015. In dollar terms, sales are expected to more than triple from $3.0 billion in 2010 to $9.2 billion in 2015. Consumption will be driven by ...
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With lacklustre buying activity and stable upstream round billet prices, domestic spot prices for Chinese seamless pipes remained largely stable during the last week of July. The firm rounds prices and the strengthening overall steel prices ...
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