Dry bulk shipowners are heading toward 2016 with the prospect of one fewer cargo option on the key loading region of the US Gulf Coast, as new environmental legislation introduced by Beijing this summer could mean China will no longer be ...
Despite recent rebounding shipments of consumer notebooks due to replenishing inventories, global demand is still weak and therefore shipments are likely to significantly drop after the 2015 year-end holidays, especially since the first ...
Yingli Green Energy has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli Green Energy Europe has partnered with Motif Proje ve Insaat Ltd. Sti (Motif Proje), one of Turkey's first renewable energy consulting partners, to develop a 20MW PV ...
Tags: Turkey, Yingli Green Energy
A sharp upturn in demand has seen a number of analysts re-think their appraisal of the photovoltaics market in 2010. After the impact of the global credit crunch, which put the brakes on the rapid market expansion witnessed up until 2009, ...
Tags: Photonics Industry, cell prices
An outbreak of cautious optimism in optics and laser markets is fueling the hope that the economic slowdown may be over. Not all vendors are cheerful however, with the order books of some in the materials processing sector continuing to ...
The market for mid-infrared lasers is about to receive a welcome boost from a raft of new medical and military applications. That’s according to a new analyst report from the market research firm Strategies Unlimited, which ...
Tags: mid-infrared lasers, photonics industry, mid-IR region
Can you consider light as a product, ready to pick up from the shelf and take home? You can't touch or hold it, but being able to use it whenever needed has been vital to the progress of humanity. Light sources have progressed from candles ...
Tags: Lighting market, LED demand, displays
Financial results posted by leading chip manufacturer Intel and key lithography system supplier ASML suggest that demand in the microelectronics industry – a key sector for laser companies – is to remain strong. Following ...
Tags: ASML, microelectronics industry, laser
Escalating demand for photovoltaic (PV) products drove record-breaking additions of cell manufacturing capacity during the third quarter of 2010, while subsequent announcements suggest that the PV boom is set to continue. US-based ...
Tags: Solar, photovoltaic, First Solar
In a dramatic change from the status quo, nearly half of all gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs will be produced on silicon substrates by the end of the decade. That’s according to a new report by analysts at IHS, who forecast that the ...
Tags: LED Production, GaN LEDs, sapphire wafers
For third-quarter 2015, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has reported ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics, hybrid photonic
Powered by a growing range of applications, 3D printing – encompassing laser additive manufacturing at the higher end – will become a mainstream production tool in many industries. Significant growth for this sector is predicted ...
Tags: 3D Printing, laser, additive
Pricing pressures and a varied international outlook are still facts of life for industrial laser vendors, but overall demand remained in line with expectations during the first quarter of 2014. The regular survey of vendors carried ...
Tags: laser vendors, fiber lasers, semiconductor
Volvo Cars has selected INRIX, Inc. for the car maker's first live traffic service to help better tackle the challenges of daily driving. INRIX will provide Volvo drivers with rich, real-time and predictive traffic flow information for ...
Tags: Volvo Cars, Traffic Information
The European machine vision (MV) industry is in “an excellent condition”, according to the German VDMA’s latest market survey. published earlier in July. It states that the MV sector’s turnover grew more strongly ...
Tags: Machine Vision, strong growth, software