Following declines of 45% in 2011 and 30% in 2013, LED wafer fab equipment spending will rise 17% to nearly $1.2bn in 2014 as the LED industry is working through its over-capacity problems and will renew capital spending and capacity ...
Tags: LED Equipment, LED, Electrical, Electronics
The European Union's (EU) anti-dumping tariffs are spurring an increase in prices for China-made solar modules, marking the end of a period when available inexpensive photovoltaic (PV) devices enabled fast growth of installations in the ...
Tags: Solar Modules, Lighting
It's reported that China's steelmaker Lingyuan Steel estimated that its net profits would be at RMB30~RMB40 million for the first half of this year, in comparison of net profits of RMB232 million in the same period of a year ago. Lingyuan ...
Tags: Construction, steel, Steel Estimates Net
The cash injection comes alongside on-going investment in the firm's 120 employees, as the family-owned firm readies itself to enter new markets and reinforces its presence in its existing specialisms. Manchester-based Duo UK manufactures ...
Taiwan-based green energy firm Delta Electronics held a shareholders meeting on June 7, 2013, during which it decided to deal out 2012 cash dividend of NT$5.3 (US$0.18) per share. Delta reported 2012 consolidated revenues around ...
Tags: LED lighting, Light, taiwan
Despite mature technology and better cost structures, production forecasts for electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) are gloomy. That is the conclusion of the latest E-mobility Index by Roland Berger Strategy ...
Tags: Electric Cars, Transportation
The Chinese government has been cutting back on subsidies to manufacturers of LED chips, a reason some companies are blaming for their poor first quarter results. This points to a change in approach to policies over the once-hyped sector ...
Tags: LED industry, LED Sector, LED
On April 21, Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (WISCO) announced that in 2012 its subsidiary Echeng Iron and Steel Co. received financial subsidies worth RMB 280 million ($45 million) from Ezhou municipal ...
Tags: Echeng Steel, Mineral
The textile and clothing sector in Peru has great potential, but the difficult economic environment in major markets, fall in the exchange rate, and growing labour costs are impeding their exports, according to Asociación de ...
Tags: Textile
Stung by plunging sales in Japan and declining demand in North America and Western Europe, global television shipments in 2012 fell, marking a major inflection point that will have a lasting impact on the market, according to an IHS iSuppli ...
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Conergy, Europe’s biggest supplier of solar modules to debt-financed projects*, announced today the supply of its “P-Series” modules for four UK solar farms with a combined power output of 15.3 megawatts (MW). The ...
Tags: Conergy, Modules, UK Solar Farms
The Japan government continues to promote the use of renewable energy and lower the percentage of electricity generated from nuclear power. In July 2012, the government announced a full buy-back scheme which successfully stimulated solar ...
Tags: solar installations, solar, renewable energy
Xinyi Glass Holdings (0868) is restarting efforts to spin off its solar glass business on the main board in Hong Kong. "The newly-listed entity would focus on research and development of solar glass and the construction of solar power ...
Tags: Solar Glass
The EU has opened an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese-manufactured glass for solar panels, broadening a trade fight with Beijing over renewable energy. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, opened the probe in response ...
Tags: Solar-Panel Glass
Yesterday, TCL announced annual reports of 2012. The reports showed that its revenues in last year were 69,306,000,000, increasing by 14.46% year-on-year and net profits were 796,000,000, decreasing by 21.4% year on year. TCL net profits' ...
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