Building-integrated PV ready to'come of age'22 Aug 2012 Maturing technologies and partnerships between solar and construction companies will prompt 4.6GW of installations by 2017. A new market report from the analyst company Pike ...
Tags: Building-integrated PV, BIPV market, PowerFilm, Solar
In a competitive environment dominated by large-scale manufacturers from the Far East, LED company Optogan may appear as an outsider. Nevertheless, the company with Russian roots goes from strength to strength. In an interview with EE Times ...
Tags: LED
Nestle's share price increased this morning (9 August) as the Kit-Kat maker booked an increase in first-half profit and reaffirmed its full-year guidance. The Swiss food giant reported an 8.9% increase in earnings of CHF5.12bn (US$5.26bn) ...
Tags: food, share price, emerging markets, price rises, cost-cutting, water
Pfleiderer generated consolidated turnover in the first quarter of of €388.9m, virtually unchanged year on year. The decline of 0.6% was attributed by Pfleiderer primarily to the sale concluded on 24 Januaryof the Moncure particleboard ...
Tags: market view, MDF, HDF
L/LDPE The L/LDPE price bubble has truly burst with notations tumbling in June. Producers initially hoped to limit the downward price adjustment in line with the ?20/tonne drop in the June ethylene contract price but were swiftly forced to ...
Tags: market view, Plastics prices
French cement giant Lafarge SA (LFRGY. PK, LFGEF. PK) Friday reported an 80 percent plunge in profit for the second quarter, hurt by charges. Adjusted profit was flat with last year, amid a 5 percent rise in revenue. Net income group share ...
Tags: market view, cement
In 2011, the total output of China's fastener up 9.7% to 6.8 million tons and the sales up 10% to 66 billion YUAN while compared with last year, which broke the history record. In the meantime, there were about 200 enterprises whose sales ...
Tags: Industry Trends, Fasteners
Belgium based underwriter KBC insurance has deployed ALIS policy administration solution from Sapiens International Corporation, with an aim to boost its footprint in Belgium underwriting industry. The insurer said that the solution will ...
In their annual results for 2011, coatings producers in Europe have been predicting that 2012 will be much the same overall as last year in terms of growth in sales and profits. There would, nonetheless, be one major difference between the ...
Tags: News Update, Industry Trends, coating
The Danish timber supplier group DLH apparently intends to separate from its American subsidiary Inter-Continental Hardwoods. In the current quarterly report for the period from January to March 2012 the company is recorded as a division to ...
Tags: market view, hardwood
On 26th April, Poland – China – World Economic Forum on Central and Eastern Europe was held in Hilton Hotel, Warsaw, Poland. More than 1000 guests participated in this forum, including Wen Jiabao, the Premier of the state ...
The number of chemical and plastics companies in western Europe that are positive about the business situation this summer has dropped to 36.7%, compared to 41.7% in the Spring, according to a new report from Ceresana. In its report, ...
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Qualcomm is looking for the most promising start-ups and will give$100,000 to each of the best companies from China,Israel,India,Western Europe,US,Korea,Brazil and Eastern Europe and$150,000 to the best overall. Qualcomm calls the annual ...
China–the largest jewellery market for the third consecutive quarter. Global gold demand in Q1 2012 was 1,097.6 tonnes,down 5%from the high demand levels seen in Q1 2011,according to the World Gold Council's Gold Demand Trends ...
Tags: gold, demand, import taxes
Interbrand created a new brand identity for NYSE Euronext.The new identity was unveiled at all NYSE Euronext exchanges and other locations around the world as well as online at NYSE website. Interbrand shaped an authentic and ...
Tags: NYSE Euronext, Interbrand, integrated networks, collaboration