Taiwan is the world's leader in LED manufacturing with 41 LED fabs representing over 21 percent of the world's capacity — more than any other region (according to SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast report). After the challenging year of 2011, ...
Tags: Taiwan LED Industry
The US Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC)has charged Germany based insurance and asset management company Allianz for breaching the books and records and internal controls rules of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act(FCPA). According ...
Tags: FCPA, SEC, Allianz, market regulator
Since the Hong Kong SAR government's establishment of the OGCIO--and its ditching of the ITSD (Information Technology Services Department)--in 2004, many local ICT pros and startups have slammed the government's lukewarm attitude towards ...
Business Line reported that Lanco Infratech Ltd has signed for a long term sale of 300 MW power from its Unit 1 of Lanco Amarkantak Thermal Power Station to Madhya Pradesh. On November 1st, the Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory ...
Tags: power plant, power supply, energy supply, lanco hills project
Burma's opposition leader and chairperson of the Lower House's Committee for the Rule of Law and Tranquility, Aung San Suu Kyi on November 25th 2012 spoke out about the furore surrounding the Latpadaung copper mine project in Sagaing ...
Continuously falling prices, unstable subsidies, and low demand in Europe have been causing China-based LED firms to face financial troubles. The LED industry continues to suffer with oversupply. Many LED firms in China have been said to ...
Tags: China LED lighting, LED lighting
Bole Lemi Industrial Park,the first industrial park to be managed by the Ethiopian Federal Government,will have garment manufacturing units,alongside other industries. For the construction of the industrial park,the Ethiopian Ministry of ...
Thailand s Siam Cement Pcl doubled its forecast for sales growth of the construction material this year, but maintained its forecast for a fall in overall earnings as weak petrochemical prices dragged down third quarter profit. ...
Tags: market view, cement
China's government has been providing subsidies to help its domestic LED industry. Some firms have been benefitting but others remain in limbo amid rapid product price falls. Slowing demand for LED billboards According to sources from ...
Tags: led, sapphire substrate
THE Department of Energy (DOE) is stepping up efforts to urge Filipinos to use energy-efficient lighting. DOE Luzon field office OIC Efren Balaoing, together with Baguio Representative Bernardo Vergara, launched the National Compact ...
Tags: CFL
The Cabinet Office has blacklisted Fujitsu and another IT supplier from tendering for government IT contracts because they constitute too high a risk. According to FT.com, Fujitsu will not be considered by the Cabinet Office for new ...
NeoCon®East,a premier design exposition for commercial interiors for the Mid-Atlantic community,has secured two high-profile keynote speakers for this year’s show.More than 7,000 architects and interior designers from the private ...
The LED business unit of LG Innotek has been seeing a low capacity utilization rate, hence Digitimes Research expects its 2012 profit margin to be negative 4-6%. Despite the negative figure, the 2012 profit margin forecast would still be an ...
Tags: LED lighting, LG
Sanan Optoelectronics has been experiencing record high revenues and profit margins in first-half 2012. Nevertheless, the firm's inventory turnover days is relatively high showing that it is possible for the firm to experience an oversupply ...
Tags: China, Digitimes Research, LED, Sanan
The last installment in this three-part series tackles the challenges faced by makers. Shenzhen represents more than 70 percent of Guangdong province's lighting products. The bulk of the latter's LED light shipments of $3.81 billion ...
Tags: LED lighting