The market for chemicals used to treat water and wastewater will rise to just under $30 billion per year over the next five years. This is the prediction just incorporated in the McIlvaine report Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: ...
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Analysts see sanity returning to PV market 21 May 2013 Lux Research and Solarbuzz see industry 'returning to equilibrium' as uncompetitive suppliers disappear. Despite the looming possibility of a photovoltaics (PV) trade war between ...
U.S. demand for specialty films is forecast to advance 5.2 percent per year to $8.0 billion in 2017. Gains will be driven by the increasing need for high-performance plastic films which offer barrier properties, mechanical strength, and ...
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Note-taking software provider Evernote originally wanted to delve into the hardware business as far back as 2007, with an egg-like device capable of recording conversations, the company's CEO said on Tuesday. "The original Evernote idea ...
The Renault Megane GT 220 Estate will make a surprise arrival in Australia in late May priced from $36,990 plus on-road costs. Although Renault last year announced the Megane Estate would join the range in 2013, the ‘RS lite’ ...
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General Motors is the latest manufacturer in hot water over a controversial commercial, this time drawing ire over a Chevrolet Trax advertisement that was labelled racist by some viewers. The negative attention directed towards the Trax ...
New commercial vehicle demand across the European Union (EU) in March this year was down for the 15th consecutive month, with a year-on-year decrease of 9.8 percent, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA). ...
Global demand for robots is forecast to increase nearly 11% per year through 2016 to $20.2 billion, outpacing both the world’s economy and overall manufacturing activity. The United States is projected to grow at more than 15% per ...
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Grundfos has just inaugurated its new North American headquarters in Downers Grove, Illinois. The Chicago area was chosen because of its proximity to the resurging manufacturing sector surrounding the Great Lakes and its open political ...
Designed specifically to appeal to Chinese men born in the 1980s, the Nissan Friend-ME is a four-seat four-door design concept shown at the Shanghai auto show. With a PureDrive hybrid drivetrain, and based on "an existing Nissan sedan ...
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Fuyao Glass, one of the world’s largest makers of glass used in automobiles, gained 3% on Friday at the Shanghai Stock Exchange after the company said net profit in the first three months of the year climbed by 11% to 391.9 million ...
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Due to significant expansion in manufacturing capacity, falling prices, environmental concerns and government incentives, the LED lighting market will double from 16 million units in 2012 to 33 million in 2013 and then nearly triple by ...
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Demand for LED lighting is growing rapidly thanks to significant expansion in manufacturing capacity, falling prices, environmental concerns, and government incentives. According to DisplaySearch, this new opportunity for LED lighting ...
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Intel is hoping to get more Chinese developers to back its products by forming a new joint innovation lab with the nation's largest search engine Baidu. The lab is part of an agreement the two companies signed on Thursday that will focus ...
Volatile cotton prices and recession-induced drops in consumer spending caused the industry to decline slightly in the past five years; however, increasing population and disposable income growth will bolster industry revenue in the five ...
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