The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has requested the Government to reduce the excise duty on all man-made fibres and filaments, as also their raw materials from the current 12 per cent to 6 per cent. In a pre-Budget ...
Tags: man-made fibres, Apparel, Textile
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
The tire industry has urged the government to take decisive measures against the anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed on tires imported from China after the United States Department of Commerce claimed on Monday that Chinese ...
Tags: tire industry, Tire
North China's Hebei province saw robust growth of photovoltaic products to Japan in the first ten months, local customs authorities have said. During this period, Hebei's PV exports to Japan hit 2.7 billion yuan ($440 million), up 180 ...
Tags: PV Exports, Sloar Cell
The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) has set additional tariffs on Chinese consumer tire imports. Based on the decision -- which goes into effect immediately but can be reviewed at a later date -- Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. is ...
Tags: tire imports, Auto
Some Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers, faced with price drops and decreased orders arising from the US imposition of preliminary anti-dumping tariffs at an average rate of 24.23%, have plans to relocate production lines ...
Tags: solar cell, Personnel, Lights
The deadline for the United States Department of Commerce's preliminary determination in its countervailing duty investigation of passenger and light truck tires from the People’s Republic of China came and went on Friday, Nov. 21, ...
Tags: Tire Tariff, Auto
As many Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have increasingly shifted production from polycrystalline models to monocrystalline ones for higher gross margins, increased global supply plus decreased demand may drive prices for ...
Tags: monocrystalline, solar cell
China-based PV module maker and provider of PV systems UE Solar has gone bankrupt mainly due to investment to set up a large production base in central China, according to China-based CBN Daily. UE Solar invested a great deal in ...
Solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) plans to expand its annual production capacity for monocrystalline silicon solar cells by 350MWp from 500MWp currently to 850MWp in 2015 and is likely to set ...
Some of US-based polysilicon suppliers are building up their inventories in preparation for the China market, as they anticipate a settelment between Beijing and Washington on their solar trade war, according to industry sources in Taiwan. ...
Tags: Polysilicon, China Market
Many Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have introduced or plan to introduce PERC (passivated emitter and rear cell) process to increase energy conversion rates for P-type monocrystalline solar cells from 18-19% to 19-20%, ...
Tags: solar cell, monocrystalline
Taiwna-based Sunlux Energy, which supplies reclaimed solar-grade polysilicon, will be listed on the local emerging stock market at an initial price of NT$28 (US$0.92) per share on November 6. Prices for reclaimed solar-grade polysilicon ...
Tags: Sunlux Energy, Polysilicon, 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 ...
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