The worldwide solar market demand in 2014 was approximately at 44GW, even though the China market did not perform as well as expectations, due to the continuous growth in Japan and the U.S. market, the supply and demand remained stable. At ...
Tags: Solar Demand, Solar Cell
Last year China leapfrogged past Germany to become the world’s largest market for solar equipment, according to industry figures. True, a September report showed the former is also set to push global carbon emissions to a record high ...
Tags: Solar Energy, PV
December lost 131 points to close at 63.19 cents/lb, while March dropped 74 points to close at 62.28 cents/lb, which pulled down New York cotton futures this week. “It was another uneventful week in the cotton market, as values ...
Tags: cotton futures, Textile
For third-quarter 2014, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $8m (at the bottom of the $8-12m ...
Tags: 2-Inch Sapphire, Electronics
A combination of low inventories and refinery maintenance could be spurring some Chinese state-owned companies to seek gasoil imports for the fourth quarter, sources said this week. Though market sources said that state-owned trader ...
Tags: Gasoil, sulfur gasoil, crude oil
After falling by about 50% from 2009-2014, pricing for solar glass is set to commence a rebound starting in 2015, as anti-dumping duties levied by the European Union go into effect on China suppliers. Average global pricing for glass used ...
Tags: Solar Glass, PV
China-based LED makers' production capacity expansion in the first half of 2014 has since resulted in oversupply, forcing them to reduce quotes to compete for orders in the fourth quarter. Taiwan-based competitors will follow suit in ...
Both imported and domestically produced LPG prices drifted lower in South and East China this week, mainly weighed down by the bearish market outlook, trade sources said Friday. Asian LPG prices slid to near 28-month lows Thursday, ...
Tags: LPG Prices, LPG
China makers are continuing to slash pricing for camera modules used in smartphones, with pricing expected to drop as much as 15-20% on year during the second half of 2014. Demand for the modules has slowed down in China following ...
Tags: Handset Camera, camera modules, smartphones
Swiss food giant Nestle has unveiled a new dairy farming institute in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, amid the current oversupply of dairy products in the country. The dairy farming institute includes several classrooms and three ...
As December declined 38 points to close at 63.56 cents/lb, while March shed 56 points to close at 61.71 cents/lb, New York cotton futures moved slightly lower this week. Another round of severe weather in the Delta and Southeast ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, cash cotton
China had exported 52.4 million tons of steel as of the end of August, up 36% from a year earlier as low domestic demand has left producers with a massive surplus, Bloomberg reported, citing data the news agency had complied. The price of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel, Steel Rebar
Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting in Berlin, Kim Marti, international sales director of Spanish steel producer CELSA Group, said that the key risks to the global economy, such as geopolitical tensions ...
Higher aluminum prices have prompted some Chinese smelters to abandon production cutbacks and are seen leading to restarts of other plants, chipping away at what was expected to be the first global deficit after years of oversupply. A ...
Tags: Aluminum, physical material, Metal
More than 80% of China's 63 polysilicon makers stopped production in 2011-2012 due to continual price drops arising from global oversupply. As polysilicon prices have rebounded since the beginning of 2014, a few of them have resumed ...
Tags: polysilicon, polysilicon output