Bicycle Retailer & Industry News' former longtime editor Megan Tompkins is returning to the magazine after two years in sales and marketing roles within the industry. Tompkins assumes the role of associate publisher, new media strategies, ...
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The Japan solar market is set to grow by 120% in 2013 and install more than 5GW of new capacity, according to IMS Research. Benefiting from the world's most attractive solar incentive policy, Japan's solar market is currently booming, with ...
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Oxiteno - a leading surfactants and specialty chemicals company that completes 40 years in2013 - started to produce specialty chemicals for the Agrochemical and Home & Personal Care markets in Pasadena, TX. To produce these specialty ...
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US-based provider of aluminum extruded products, Aleris has opened a new cold rolling mill at its Duffel facility in Belgium to produce the automotive body sheet. With completion of the facility, the company expects to address the ...
By Christian Gregor Dieseldorff, director, SEMI Industry Research & Statistics, San Jose, CA USA Despite difficult times, growing demand for mobile devices (such as tablets and phones) inspires an improved outlook for chip sales in ...
Tags: 2013, Fab Equipment, Spending
Fab equipment spending for Front End facilities is expected to be flat in 2013, remaining around $31.7 billion, increasing to $39.3 billion in 2014 — a 24% increase. The SEMI World Fab Forecast also reveals that in 2013 increases for ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
The UK market was at its seasonal low in February, although one should avoid any undue gloom…demand was entirely in line with expectations. Indeed, it may surprise you to note that January was actually up some 8% up on the same month ...
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Niner Bikes has hired Ian Hylands as its full-time photographer and videographer. “Ian’s work speaks for itself — he’s had images in every major U.S. mountain bike publication and his pictures live on the computer ...
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Front end fab equipment spending is expected to be flat this year at $31.7bn , says SEMI, with an increase of 24% next year. Fab equipment spending for 17nm and below is expected to kick off in 2013 and increase by a factor of 2.4 to ...
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Altera has joined Tabula and Achronix as an FPGA foundry customer of Intel. According to Altera, Intel has agreed that Altera will be the only 'major' FPGA customer of Intel which rules out Lattice and Xilinx becoming Intel foundry ...
The Authentic Food Company has reported a 10% rise in sales and a 15% hike in profits in its latest financial report. Authentic Food said it expected to achieve revenue of pound 50M this year The Manchester-based supplier of Indian, ...
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Specialty chemical company Albemarle Fine Chemistry Services (FCS) business is continuing expansion with the construction of another custom manufacturing facility in Tyrone, Pennsylvania. The $30m expansion is expected to support the ...
The relentless rise in raw materials costs, which has been hitting European coatings producers over the last 2-3 years, has at last been easing. But the relief from the constant pressure of rising input prices may be short lived. The ...
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Desalination plant flow control and treatment expenditures are now just 1.5 percent of the $340 billion dollar flow control and treatment market. While the market as a whole will increase at 5.5 percent, the growth in the desalination ...
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Polysilicon suppliers to the solar industry have been significantly lowering plant utilization rates during the past six months, with average quarterly utilization rates falling below 70%, according to NPD Solarbuzz. This contrasts with ...
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