22 Dec 2015 Australia is seeing a plateau in its recycling rates according to the Australian Packaging Covenant (APC). According to the sustainable packaging initiative, the overall recycling rate for post-consumer packaging in ...
China will continue to actively destock its massive property inventory over concerns that the ailing housing market could derail the economy. Along with cutting overcapacity and tackling debt, destocking will be a major task in 2016, ...
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday revised down its estimate for the real gross domestic product(GDP) in the third quarter to a growth of 2 percent, slightly lower than its last projection of 2.1 percent. The growth was on par with ...
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China's real estate sector showed signs of warming in November as new home prices rose on a monthly basis in an increasing number of cities, buoyed by government policies. Of 70 large and medium-sized cities surveyed in November, new home ...
Chery Automobile has become the first Chinese automaker to have produced five million cars. The five millionth, Chery's best-selling model Arrizo5, rolling off a production line on Friday capped a good year for the company in defiance of ...
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Listed lenders from China may see zero or negligible profit growth next year, with some likely to incur marginal losses, a new report said on Monday. The nonperforming loans ratio, which measures bad loans as a percentage of total loans, ...
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Chinese LED manufacturers Auckson Opto and Unilumen financial results in 2Q15 was polarize. Auckson net profits plummeted, in stark contrast Unilumen’s revenues nearly doubled, reported Chinese-language report Security Times. ...
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Manufacturer and consumer demand for Ultra HD (4K) TVs remains strong, including 4K TV, wide viewing angle (WCG), high dynamic range (HDR) and other high-definition picture performance improvements. Despite overall sluggishness in LCD TV ...
It's hard to escape the positive vibe that is currently circulating within the optics industry. As well as publishing record results in quarter one, many of the industry's big hitters have also published encouraging growth forecasts for ...
Tags: optics industry, cosmetic medical systems, semiconductor tools
Whisper it softly, but, ten years since the telecom bubble burst, we may be about to witness another boom in sales of optical components for communications infrastructure. Analysts at Lightcounting, which specializes in forecasting the ...
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A combination of existing commercial applications and new consumer applications will drive the market for uncooled infra-red imaging technologies, according to Yole Développement, the French market consultancy. The company’s ...
Asian giant gears up to pull out all stops to halt the fall in inbound tourism, Yang Feiyue reports. China will step up efforts to reverse the decline in the number of inbound tourists. A total of 33,500 modern public restrooms will be ...
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British rock band Muse is currently on their first-ever tour in China. On Saturday night, they made their mainland debut at Beijing's Mastercard Centre. Famous for their highly conceptualized albums, innovative instrumentation, and ...
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Cinema typically prospers during slowdowns, and insiders think new films will turn box offices to gold, Xu Fan reports. China's box-office chart has seen new records set frequently in recent months. The latest big high-this year's first ...
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The Ministry of Commerce held the 2015 National Foreign Investment Working Conference on May 5 in Beijing. The main task of the conference is to implement and carry out the spirits of the 18th National Congress and the Third and the Fourth ...