BASF plans to invest up to €56 million in the expansion of its Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) value chain over the next four years. PVP is a polymer which is used in diverse industries, for example the pharmaceutical or the personal and ...
Tags: binding properties, PVP market, Construction
BASF will increase its production capacities for the chemical intermediate 1,4-butanediol (BDO) by 10 percent at its site in Geismar, Louisiana, as of 2016. The company will then have a global capacity of BDO of 670,000 metric tons per ...
Tags: customer demand, natural gas, Construction
The overall PV market price in the first quarter of 2015 is expected to remain constant until the end of the Lunar New Year. Afterwards, shipment demand will decrease and pricing will drop. The beginning of the holiday season in China meets ...
Tags: solar energy, Lights
The overall PV market price in the first quarter of 2015 will remain constant until the end of the Chinese New Year; afterwards, shipment demand will decrease and the price will drop, expected EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce. ...
Tags: PV Market, Solar Energy
In view of fast growing global demand for LED lighting, China-based LED packaging houses Shenzhen Refound Optoelectronics, Guangzhou Hongli Opto-Electronic, MLS, Foshan Nationstar Optoelectronics and Shenzhen Jufei Optoelectronics are ...
Tags: LED packaging, LED lighting
Solar cell maker Motech Industries has announced it will be merge with fellow maker Topcell Solar International by swapping one Motech share for six Topcell's, with Motech to be the surviving company after the merger takes effect on July 1, ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Lights
China's State Council (central government) has ordered its subordinate agencies and local governments to stop offering subsidies and tax incentives for China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers because such offering has disrupted ...
Tags: LED industry, LED wafer
Prices of copper-clad laminates (FCCL) in China are set to fall in 2015 amid increasing competition, according to industry sources. Korea-based FCCL suppliers, which have seen their production utilization rates affected by ...
Tags: copper-clad laminates, smartphones
FAST production and sales bucked the trend this year, and the first 11 months double exceed ten billion yuan, various operational indicators continue to maintain industry leading. Faced with New opportunities and new challenges of ...
Tags: commercial vehicles, automatic transmission, Transportation
Demand for handset chips is slowing down in China affecting sales at MediaTek and Ilitek, according to industry sources. MediaTek and Ilitek both saw their November sales hit the lowest levels in five months, reflecting a slowdown in ...
Tags: Handset Chips, LCD driver
The China government, viewing that total PV system installations in the country in 2014 are expected to be significantly short of target, is likely to extend the applicability of 2014 feed-in tariff rates to February 2015 to boost ...
Tags: PV system, solar cell, Lights
Austria based, Lenzing said looking at the challenging conditions, it will not undertake any new expansion projects at any of its viscose staple fibre (VSF) production sites across the world. Although Lenzing continues to anticipate good ...
Tags: viscose staple fibre, Textile
UAE-based Alliance Plastics will be investing around $4-5.4m (Dh15-20m) in the first phase of facility expansion to meet the growing demand for industrial plastic packaging products from the local and GCC markets. The company has invested ...
Tags: plastic packaging, Agriculture
Taiwan-based makers from the LED lighting sector have been tapping emerging markets, including Indonesia, Thailand, India, Russia and Brazil, as they face fierce competition in North America, Europe, Japan and China, according to industry ...
Tags: LED packaging, LED Lighting
Following the anti-dumping and countervailing measures imposed by the US on China and Taiwan solar PV makers, the European Union (EU) is now investigating other Asia countries for allegedly helping China violate the terms of a solar-export ...