"China's rare earth ore exports have been rebounding monthly since February,"said Ma Rongzhang, secretary-general of the China Rare Earth Industry Association. But Ma and the association did not provide export figures for the first half. ...
Tags: Rare Earths
The global market for solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters is forecast to decrease by 5% to US$6.7 billion in 2013, according to research firm IMS Research. Despite PV inverter shipments rising to 34.2 gigawatts in 2013, average global ...
Tags: solar photovoltaic, Solar Power
Bristol City Council is upgrading its street lighting with ceramic metal halide lamps to reduce its annual street lighting costs by £920,000 per year. The council has replaced around 8,000 existing high-pressure sodium street lights ...
Tags: Street Lighting, Lights, Lighting
Bristol City Council is upgrading its street lighting with ceramic metal halide lamps to reduce its annual street lighting costs by £920,000 per year. The council has replaced around 8,000 existing high-pressure sodium street lights ...
Tags: Bristol, Street Lights
The Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q3 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER) confirms the stabilization of the EU economy in the second half of 2013 and a gradual but slow recovery ...
Tags: Steel Using Industries, Mineral
Due to strong demand in the global LED lighting market in first-half 2013, the utilization rate of metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) systems that the major chip makers have installed and debugged is rising, according to ...
Tags: China, MOCVD Tool, LEDs, GaN
OPEC's share of the global oil market is set to diminish further next year as surging supplies of oil from the US and other non-OPEC producers outpaces an expected acceleration in world oil demand growth, the International Energy Agency ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil
AGC Flat Glass (Thailand) Plc (AGC), the country's largest glass maker, foresees a 10% drop in revenue this year following the closure of one of its plants to pave way for a 2.4-billion-baht factory with upgraded technology. Its plant in ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
The European Commission has introduced new caps on mobile data roaming charges, making it cheaper to use maps, watch videos, check emails and update social networks while travelling in the EU. From today, it will cost a maximum of 0.45 + ...
Tags: Mobile Data, Electronics
Widespread geographical diversification of PV installations will quadruple supply in five years, says Lux Research. EPIA's global solar forecast (click to enlarge) With high-profile bankruptcies, shrinking subsidies and a ...
Tags: PV, Electricity Supply
The cost of using mobile phones in another EU country is set to fall today as new EU rules come into force, limiting what mobile operators can charge for their services. The EU has been cutting what operators are allowed to charge over ...
Tags: mobile phones, BYOD
Belarus will raise export duties on oil and oil products on 1 July 2013. The relevant decision is laid down by Council of Ministers resolution No. 541 of 26 June 2013, the press service of the Belarusian government told BelTA. As of 1 ...
Tags: Oil Export, Duties
According to the announced report from China Association of Automobile Manufacturers that China produced 1.7805 million vehicles in May and sold 1.7615 vehicles. The sales volumes were lower than those in April. The Taiwanese steelmaker ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
After years of development, China's LED stage light market has begun to take shape. Currently, there are more than 100 LED stage light enterprises (only refers to production companies, does not contain trade enterprises) in a certain scale ...
Tags: LED Stage Lamp, Lighting
Europe solar installations are forecast to fall by more than 6GW in 2013, with 1.3 GW of this decline attributed to incoming EU anti-dumping duties on China-made modules, according to IHS. IHS has cut its forecast for the second half of ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping Duties, Energy